diversity like pennsylvania. being in the united states senate, he had a range of experiences and a rain many of people had interest in things. there was always interesting that people would bring me lots of great ideas and have lots of great opportunities to talk about those ideas here in d.c., whether it was national security issues some major pieces of legislation. i worked on agricultural policies from pennsylvania, i worked on, you know, social welfare policies. there was president a bill that passed in the 12 years i was in the senate that had to deal with dealing with the poor that i wasn't heavily involved in, in one way or another. the diversity of my state sort of -- there was not a bill that passed in the 12 years i was in the senate that had to deal with dealing with the poor that i wasn't heavily involved in, in one way or another. i have a long record of accomplishments that we were able to get done on a bipartisan basis that you know, were implementation of conservative ideas that were consistent w

diversity like pennsylvania. being in the united stat senate, he had a range of experiences and a rain many of people had interest in things. there was always interesting that people would bringe lots of great ideas and have lots of great opportunities to talk about those ideas here in d.c., whether it was national security issues some major pieces of legislation. i worked on agricultural policies from pennsylvania, i worked on, you know, social welfare policies. there was president a bill that passed in the 12 years i was in the senate that had to deal with dealing with the poor that i wasn't heavily involved in, in one way or another. the diversity of my state sort of -- there was not a bill that passed in the 12 years i was in the senate that had to deal with dealing with the poor that i wasn't heavily involved in, in one way or another. i have a long record of accomplishments that we were able to get done on a bipartisan basis that you know, were implementation of conservative ideas that were consistent with

pennsylvania lost two seats. alice told by my republican and democratic colleagues that i was going to be one of those two seats and i was. they took my district and broke into three different districts and my home was put into a district that was well over 70% democratic in registration against a 22-year democratic incumbents who decided he was not up to the challenge of running against me and ended up winning the race again. bill clinton was elected president, he won my district overwhelmingly. george bush only got 21% in my district but i was able to win and turn it into a senate race in 1994. >> we have elected president to have been in the senate and have been governor. should it be a requirement to have executive experience to serve as president? >> i don't think it should be a requirement. we have had folks who didn't have any executive experience, just legislative experience, guys like abraham lincoln. they did a pretty good job taking on the responsibility. you have to look at their leadership qualities,

if you look close pennsylvania in new york and you find pennsylvania as dumping a lot of these radioactive materials and other toxic tears into rivers that are on the border of your state come you've got to be concerned about it too. just leaving the situations open to individual states is not going to do it. so that's part of it and i'm glad you're interested in this. .. included none of these topics interestingly enough, so agency officials expressed concern about the public's reaction if it was discovered that the study scope was being narrowed and staff were discouraged from putting anything in writing about the national study, unless dated by managers, so it could not need and the freedom of information act for example. when regional administrator, apparently instructed his subordinates to not spell out their grandest visions about what the study should examine, bless the public see all these concerns. these are the kinds of things that we know are very very dangerous and we know there is a lot of activities that are going on to keep adverse circumstances to quiet. now epa did have re

and now i'm joined by take storm burke who was the governor of pennsylvania at the time sir thank you so much for joining us thank you guy and well first of all what do you think about the comparison but there's an. eerie similarity between what's happening in japan today and what happened in pennsylvania in one nine hundred seventy nine. there are obviously differences because we didn't have to deal with a record earthquake or aftershocks or following tsunami but the technical challenges are pretty much the same so what happened to this three mile island was a partial core of meltdown in one of the reactors how bad were the consequences back then at the time i we had no sense of what had really transpired it took a long time to complete the cleanup process and determine precisely how much damage had been done but about a third of the radioactive core had melted down prior to the. the reactor being brought under control and that was serious how costly was that well the cleanup cost was something that. really was neglected for a while we had to go and cobble together a group of contrib

the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. toomey: thank you very much, madam president. i'd like to thank senator vitter for yielding his time and for his help on this effort. listen, i just want to be very clear. first of all, i'm not aware of anybody in this body or anybody i know that wants to see a government shutdown. i'm not aware of anybody that wants to see the disruption that would result from failing to raise the debt ceiling when at the appropriate time. but i also feel very strongly that it's critical that we take this opportunity to begin to address the structural problems that we have. the fact is we have a burden of debt right now that is costing us jobs in this country today. the uncertainty that it creates, the cost of financing this, the question of whether and for how long we can roll this over, the extent to which inflation becomes a problem, all of these risk factors are already weighing on our economy and our ability to create jobs now. for the future, it's an even bigger rifnlgt and so -- risk. and so s

next call from pennsylvania. caller: i think one of the concerns about going private is that since it is public, it is not really ratings driven. if it goes private, you risk being desperate to get ratings. and the thing, it is not an objective resource. host: from "usa today," the wisconsin government saying that layoffs could come as early as today. also from "the wall street journal," richard trumka point out -- one of the points from his piece this morning in the open court wall street journal" -- back to the question we are asking, pbs, should it go private? bill says pbs is the nation's only outlet for news. on-air republican line, angela is joining us in michigan. caller: i am a first-time caller and i watch every morning. pbs provides quality rather than quantity. it is the only station i really watch. i consider myself a hybrid, and the republican or democrat. it is depending on the issues and the individual. i would be very sorry to see pbs leave because it has quality. and i might add, if newt gingrich

in an op-ed on "usa today".com come pennsylvania governor tom corbett today wrote quote, pennsylvania's medicaid program, for example, has been steady and sustainable increases in the number of people cursing the cost of those services. the keystone state's medicaid budget is strained and nearly 20% a year while the commonwealth general revenues have grown by just 3% a year. it is a trend that simply cannot continue, but one that will be unavoidable as long as inflexible federal rules guide state policies, end quote. in may 2010, kaiser family foundation reports on by 2019 pennsylvania's medicaid rolls may grow by an additional 682,880 people and may cost the state an additional $2.04 billion over the 2014, 201910. many governors, including governor of utah, governor barbour for mississippi with us today have already spoken out and ask health and human services to relieve them of some the restricted health care mandates, including the maintenance provisions. the responses they've received have not been encouraging. so i look forward to hearing from an assisted gamut of first-hand what t

law mandated to this is a quote from the law fund the health of future generations of pennsylvania it's as a result of governor corbett it's decision to move this money instead to the millionaires and billionaires forty one thousand people lost their health insurance last week and another half a million low income people who are waiting to be covered. be able to get any insurance now and a lot of those people likely live in or around the peach bottom nuclear facility the one that has the g. mark on reactor so if it should blow those people have to deal with radiation poisoning on their own sorry buddy just take a tylenol. the good news is governor's governor corbett's actions didn't go unnoticed he and his republican cronies in the state are being sued by those who lost their health insurance the same can't be said about other republican governors who have slashed their medicaid programs with impunity like jan brewer arizona a state that also has a nuclear power plant and rick perry in texas who's threatened to drop out of the medicare program altogether throwing three and a half millio

and in pennsylvania specifically what i was just pointing out where that nuclear plant is which as we've discovered is facing an increased risk of nuclear plant failure the brand new republican governor tom corbett is making sure more and more people in his state don't have access to critical health services should the unthinkable happened since taking office in january governor corbett as redirected two hundred twenty million dollars from state health insurance fund to as his office calls of economic development or as i call it tax cuts for millionaires and transnational corporations that money was part of a two hundred billion dollars settlement with tobacco companies who were found responsible for the high cost of health care to treat smokers and was by pennsylvania law mandated to this is a quote from the law fund the health of future generations of pennsylvania it's as a result of governor corbett decision to move this money instead to the millionaires and billionaires forty one thousand people lost their health insurance last week and another half a million low income people who ar

please welcome from pittsburgh pennsylvania the national commander ronald connolly.ly appreciate the introduction. we are here to honor a tremendous person that serves our country as the veterans. the honoree is the third term united states congressman representing the fourth district and a small corner in western pennsylvania. before coming to the nation's capital, he actually was a kent brockman you can see how tall he is and handsome and he was a regular track and field and football player at the high school just north of pittsburgh. he went to florida and went to florida state university where he graduated in 1990. he came back to washington, d.c. and worked as a legislative aide to the then for our congressman pete peterson he gained expertise and health care. he returned to western pennsylvania in 1998 with his recently acquired expertise to work at the university of pittsburgh medical center which compromises 20 hospitals, 45,000 employees and a 7 billion-dollar revenue each year. by 2005 he was acting vice president for a government relations and community he

jason altmire from the fourth congressional district of pennsylvania. [applause] >> the award reads in special recognition of the hon. jason altmire, united states house of representatives, representing pennsylvania's fourth congressional district, for his selfless the nation to the pennsylvania american legion's housing for homeless veterans corp., to continue its mission of assisting the homeless veterans of pennsylvania. the concept for the housing for homeless veterans is simple -- provide a safe, clean, stable environment for the participants while they complete schooling, job training, and become adequately self-sufficient to seek permanent housing in the surrounding community. the main goal for the participants is to become productive tax paying citizens by securing good, decent jobs. over the years, the corporation has had over 400 veterans go to the program with an 85% success rate. in his relatively short congressional career, representative altmire has introduced, co-sponsored, and supported several pieces of legislation aimed at assisting ve

jim sciutto, abc news, blain, pennsylvania. >> so much sadness there in pennsylvania. >>> and anotherth to note tonight. "washington post" columnist david broder died today at the age of 81. he was called the dean of the washington press corps. won a pulitzer. and for generations of policy makers, journalists and political one jun junky ies, he the gold standard. but even though he thrived in washington, he didn't love it. >> this is a city which has accustomed itself to thinking of itself as the center of the political universe. >> which is why he spent so much time out in america, talking to voters, listening to their stories and hearing the rhythms that rocked our politics. >>> still ahead on "world news," when we just can't put down the blackberry at home, which of us feels the most guilt? >>> are you getting what you pay for and hope for when you book a hotel online? >>> and, do you want to fight less and make love more with your spouse? secrets from a surprising source. [ male announcer ] if you've been to the hospital with heart-related chest pain or a heart attack known as acs

host: next up, joe on the democrats' line in pennsylvania.aller: i'm a democrat but i am soon to become an independent. both parties are to blame for the position that we are in, but everyone seems to forget that 8 years in iraq has earned this nation down. last night on the pennsylvania megaball someone from new york won the lottery. it was $312 million. it would last six days to find the war in libya which we are getting out of. host: from what you saw and the conference did anything stand out? caller: king a little bit. these republicans think everybody can have a rush limbaugh show. i am not a socialist but if you lived through this life from fdr on, the liberals are to blame, but 3 businesses out of 100 will return a portion of the profits, a small portion the matter how much they are making. it is called good old-fashioned american greed. there were two people working at walmart taking care of 50 customers. everybody in this walmart has been cut six months ago from 40 hours to 28 hours. only partial benefits. that is the kind of country

came back to pennsylvania. pretty much stayed ever since. >> host: before running for the house, what were you doing? >> guest: i was practicing law in pittsburgh. i got out of college and graduate school i had an mba from the university of pittsburgh. i went to work for a state senator, someone who i met at penn state and was his chief of staff for five years. then during the last three of those five years i went to law school and graduated from law school and decided i wanted to come back home to pittsburgh. you know, sort of plant some roots down there. and, ended up practicing law for a few years, just felt like, one of those things where, again, not a plan, not, this is what i wanted to do, but i was not happy with the congressman that was representing me. so i decided to run against him. >> host: who did you challenge? >> guest: doug melbourne was his name. he was a 14-year incumbent congressman. chairman of the subcommittee on the energy and commerce committee. had never, since his first race gotten less

you were in pennsylvania, correct? or new jersey? there may be some communities in new jersey that even are small enough you know what i'm talking about, the struggle to comply and want very much to provide clean water to their water use or that technical assistance just really does seem to go along way so we will visit further about that. another question i have is about smacked. have they asked for any impact now or proposed utility macked brolan electric reliability jobs, consumer and business electrical prices? >> the taxes will the committee for asking about, the rule was not out but it will linwood a benefit analysis that will impact -- it will include in its proposal a jobs analysis as well but that isn't yet out for public comment. >> and do you think -- do you anticipate when that is coming? >> it is required by court order for i believe march 16th. islamic and you anticipate being able to meet that deadline? >> yes. >> did your agency consult with the sba proposed rule? >> we did as a brief consultation required by law. >>

now if you're born as a working class person in western pennsylvania, you'll probably stay that way. the problem going forward for politicians and president obama is we really like happy warriors. we have to say, look, things are bad now, but we're going to make them better. chris: i'm stunned by this because i think it's a can-do country. these statistics about life expectancy and college graduation are real. >> rich gave me the opening i wanted by mentioning western pennsylvania. i'm from pittsburgh and the other side of the story is that pittsburgh, which used to be a steel town, is now a college town with the third highest concentration of college students in the country and there is still social mobility there, at least there's education opportunity there, terrific healthcare and research. so a rebirth, if it happened in my home town, and it's possible through the rest of the country, and the president has to find places around the country to make that case. chris: katty, we're not going to get better on the comeback trail without it seems to be doing something and i'm asking th

. >> philadelphia, pennsylvania, sanbruno, california, and most recently allan town, pennsylvania. scene of horrific gas line explosions that left neighborhoods in ruins and 14 people dead. >> we are not doing near as good a job as we should be able to do. >> more than 2800 significant gas pipeline accidents have been recorded across the country since 1990. a third of them causing death and significant injuries. >> we have an inning infrastructure all across the country. and particularly in the eastern half of the country and pennsylvania. >> there are more than 210 natural gas pipeline gas pipeline systems made of cast and, steel and plastic which snake underground throughout the lower 48 states. 21,000 miles of it through heavily populated area. a dangerous combination say watchdog groups. >> cast iron pipes will fail and the law envisioned that these things would be replaced over time. here we are more than a century later. we still have these things in the ground and they are kind of a ticking time-bomb. >> reporter: by law private and public pipeline operators are required to

you were in pennsylvania, correct? there may be some communities in new jersey that are small enough -- you know what i am talking about. they're really struggle to comply and they want to provide clean water to their water users. but that really does seem to go along way. we will talk further about that. another question i have is about -- has epa conducted or as foreign impact -- as foreign impact study on a specific situation? >> yes, the toxic ruled for utility, it is not out, but it will include the benefits analysis that will include in its proposal at jobs analysis as well. that is not yet out for public comment. >> do you know when that is coming? >> it is required by court order march 16. >> you anticipate making that deadline? >> yes. >> did your agency consult with the fda on that? >> as proposed by law. >> could you provide those comments? >> we will provide them, absolutely. >> i would be most interested. i have some other questions, mr. chairman, but my voice is not cooperating. i will submit them in writ

tom brokaw is here with us just back from pennsylvania with that story tonight. tom, welcome. >> brian, redding, pennsylvania, was once a thriving manufacturing center turning out everything from steam engines to knitted goods and then it was a destination for big discount stores. but now reading's proud past is only a memory as it struggles like so many cities in this country to just stay alive economically. >> in a classroom at reading high school there is an energetic debate on the city's economy. >> 15 years ago we were the number one outlet center of the world. >> reading was once a destination city, buzzing with factories, overflowing with retail stores. today, it is a far different place. >> i was giving a speech in class, and how i opened up the speech was, by show of hands, who cannot wait to get out of reading? and sure enough my whole class raised their hands. >> senior tyler washington says that after college he wants to come back some day, but he doesn't know when. >> unfortunately, we don't have a diversity of employment so if they're interested in

but first, matt gutman joins us from westmoreland county, pennsylvania. where golf ball size hail rained down. >> reporter: good morning. the roof of this house was off roof shingles thrown all over

came back to the states and went to law school at the university of pennsylvania. spent three years in philadelphia. came back, and ever since coming back to the bay area,

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an unthinkable tragedy in pennsylvania.er was out milking cows at the time. and the father had fallen asleep in his milk delivery truck. no word how the fire started. the children were between 7 months and 11 years old. >>> libyan leader moammar gadhafi is showing confidence this morning after stopping rebel forces from advancing towards the capital. during a tv appearance today, gadhafi blamed foreign influences for the uprising in libya and promised to fight back if western nations impose a no-fly zone over the country. >>> well, for the second time in two days, the taliban has claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in pakistan. this time, at a funeral, where most victims were militia members who fought the taliban. nearly 60 people have died in the 2 bombings. >>> the woman who made headlines last fall when she volunteered to become police chief in her town in mexico has fled to the united states. 21-year-old single mother marisol garcia, is seeking asylum after receiving death threats from gangs and surviving a kid

senate in pennsylvania and democratic primaries the party people don't want me because i want to say that but but why else are all his records sealed why is he spent two million dollars plus in hiding by a very good question still i've got a i've got a theory have you ever seen a debt or a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon. yes you have that they're actually they're actually a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon nobody's ever seen a dead pigeon or a baby pigeon and whenever important people gather there are huge flocks of pigeons i think there were body spies spies the planet xenu and i think that the pigeons have something to do with obama does this make sense well now i don't think that i think the if you really think about it who controls the united states it's not the politicians it's the money people behind this is george soros and other people go out of money remember rock obama when he first in office he said can i keep my black berry no one else has had a black where you saw those people went looking for a kenyan and i think been one of the people who went and said phil berg and other pe

tornado sliced surgically through seven miles of western pennsylvania. >> do you see that? it's coming down hard. >> reporter: with winds over 120 miles per hour, it gutted dozens of homes, spewing out their contents across the hillsides. donna ross called her husband just moments before the tornado to warn him. >> called him back and told him it hit here. >> reporter: i'm so sorry. >> i know. i know. but i'm just happy everybody is okay. >> reporter: the funnel cloud then went howling towards hempfield high school. >> there's a tornado right there. get in the school. >> reporter: dozens were here at the athletic field as the wind ripped down brick and twisted bleachers like they were made out of straw. and despite all of the damage here, david, and there has been so much of it, check out this house, this kitchen simply exploded. everything was sucked out of this cabinet, shot right out into the front yard. everything that was inside here, croutons, powdered sugar. so, despite all of this damage, david, no one was actually hurt. but there has been a lot of heartache here. t

that doesn't mean he used born in pennsylvania lose a moments when because he doesn't know one of the know us i don't have any way to do it to denounce and say that he was born where he was actually born. now now that you know answer just said the baby was born so you think you think that rock obama's mother in kenya called two different newspapers in hawaii and asked them to place an ad wired them some money or something or some or maybe his grandparents to some relatives or friends not at all i think what happened was after she delivered she went back to hawaii and then registered him which you can do hers and of the out of hawaii you can register up here when you're here to the birth and then you're giving a certification of live birth i'm sorry mother newspapers. because once you file sort of here's my birth then the ads issued by the state that goes into the newspaper ok well who's who is behind this you know i this is this is you know first of all how much does obama obviously something's going on here how much does he hate america and and how do we know. i think it's obvious he

for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise? >> i rise to strike the requisite number of words. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for five minutes. mr. fattah: we heard just the other day the leader of our great ally, australia, in this chamber talk about the greatness of our nation and how it is the belief that we can achieve anything. this lack of confidence illustrated in the rhetoric here on the floor today about the greatness of america, maybe we need to walk back a minute and look at how we reinvested and rebuilt japan and germany after the war, how we bailed out mexico over $40 billion. how today, this day alone, we're spending $2 billion this week in afghanistan and we have people all over the world trying to assist others. we will be one of the first nations rushing to help those affected by the tsunami this morning in japan. this is a great nation. we come today, however, to say to law-abiding, tax-paying citizens who lost their job because of the shenanigans on wall street that even though we we

if you live close to pennsylvania, like, for example, in new york, and you find that pennsylvania is dumping a lot of these radioactive materials and other toxic materials that are on the border of your state, you got to be concerned about it too. leaving these situations open to individual states is not going to do it. that's part of it. i'm glad that you are very interested in this. let me just ask you something else. the narrowing of national fracking study and the squelching of other researchers. again, in the times, they also raise serious concerns about the process behind epa study on hydraulic fracturing. in general, i believe the epa has put forward the study advisory panels that are positive. i commend the agency for not falling into the industry's trap of narrowly defining the drilling process. and we're seeing that all over this country. in state after state where these things are going on. and they are doing this, the industry's trap of narrowly defining the drilling process. you were able to over come that because you were under some real pressure to do so. however, it i

this morning fire marshals in pennsylvania are looking for a cause of a blaze in a farmhouse that killeden children. the dead range in age from seven months to 11 years. the kids were in the farmhouse last night about 20 miles north of harrisburg while their mother was in the barn milking cows and their dad was napping in the cab of his milk truck. one child ran to the barn to alert mom that the house was on fire. that child survived. the other seven were killed. >> president obama meets this morning with senior advisors to discuss possibly u.s. intervention in libya. later moammer gadhafi says libyans will fight. that will show their real intention to seize the country's oil. he made his remarks during an interview that ran today on turkey's state-run television. the city closest to the capital, pro-regimen forces shelled the neighborhood with tank and artillery fire and appeared to regain control from rebel forces. >> a magnitude 7.43 earthquake in japan triggered a small tsunami. no reports of anything damage or injuries. this is from nhk television network. as you can see the shaking

pennsylvania governor dick thornburgh orders pregnant women and preschool aged children within a five-mile to evacuate. that night, denton breaks the news, a partial meltdown has occurred. >> we are concerned, though, about the status of the fuel in the core. there's extensive fuel damage. >> reporter: eventually, denton's team concludes there's no danger of an explosion. though on sunday, president jimmy carter toured the plant with denton. after 21 days managing the crisis, denton left. tom kauffman stayed with the plant 23 years, and is now with the industry's main lobbying group. >> 32 years later, there's absolutely no medical or scientific evidence that shows anyone outside the plant was harmed. >> reporter: still, public confidence in nuclear power was shaken then, as it's being shaken now. elaine quijano, cbs news, new york. >>> this morning on "the early show," the latest on the crisis in libya, and a preview of tonight's speech by president obama. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." kinds of exercise, t but basically, i'm a runner. last year. (oof). i had a bum kne

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[laughter] former senator rick santorum of pennsylvania was elected to the u.s. house of representatives in 1998 at the age of 32. when 1995 to 2007 he served in the u.s. senate. in 2000 he was elected to the position of senate republican conference chairman. he became one of the most successful government reformers in our history. taking on washington's powerful special interests from the moment he arrived. along with john boehner and others he was one of the famous gang of seven that expose post office scandals and it was his record that prompted a reporter to write in a recent article that santorum was a tea party kind of guy before there was a tea party. he is the author of the welfare reform act that has empowered millions to leave the welfare rolls and enter the workforce. he wrote and championed the legislation that [unintelligible] and the combatting autism act because he believes each and every individual by you and the most notably to be protected. he fought to maintain fiscal sanity in washington before was fashionable come out fighting for a line-item

tornadoes, heavy rain and hail cause all kinds of damage from california to pennsylvania. >>> and losing a legend. the life and legacy of a hollywood original, elizabeth the life and legacy of a hollywood original, elizabeth taylor. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, everybody, thanks for joining us, i'm betty nguyen. we begin with an incident at rag an national airport just outside the national's capital. if you're an anxious flyer, well, this will not help. because early wednesday morning, two airliners trying to land at reagan were unable to contact anyone in the control tower. it's reported that the lone air traffic controller on duty was apparently asleep. susan mcginnis is in washington with the latest on this. good morning, susan. tell us what happened here. >> hi, good morning, betty. this is something aviation officials say they have never seen before. first, one pilot calls in to air traffic control at reagan airport here in washington, then a second one does, looking to land, and they're greeted with nothing but silence. it was an event that could have turned out a lot

the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: mr. president, i already spoke earlier on the amendment, actually twice today, so i won't reiterate those points. but i do want to thank and commend the work done by senator landrieu and senator snowe, the senator from maine, and the way they've worked together in a bipartisan manner. to move this bill forward but in particular to help pass -- help us pass this amendment. we're looking forward to the vote. i just to thank them for their help. ms. landrieu: how much time remaining before the vote? the presiding officer: 45 second. ms. landrieu: let me use the 45 seconds to ask unanimous consent that i be added as a cosponsor to the casey amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. landrieu: thank you. i want to join with senator snowe in supporting this. we have received actually many complaints from small businesses on any number of round tables that we've held in our committee that the old bait-and-switch is going on, where their names are used by large contractors to actual

and pennsylvania, residents could get a dose of both. forecasters are calling for extreme conditions with heavy snow near pittsburgh, and flash flooding near philadelphia. when the rain stops, the water continues to rise. of course, officials will be watching where these rivers crest. and of course, that means as we head into the weekend, places that aren't seeing flooding right now could see it by then. betty, we'll send it back to you. >> it could be a long weekend. terrell brown in wayne, new jersey. thank you for that live report. >>> the governor of wisconsin is set to sign into law a bill that strips most state employees of collective bargaining rights. the bill was passed by the state legislature following weeks of contentious debate and protest. manuel gallegus reports. >> reporter: police carried out the last few die-hard protesters from the wisconsin state house thursday night, just a few hours after the state assembly voted to take away collective bargaining rights for most state workers. >> it's going to affect my income. you

un espantoso final sorprendiÓ con unos inocentes en una zona rural de pennsylvania.u madre de las llamas mientras ella se encontraba ordeÑando las vacas mientras el padre se encontraba durmiendo la siesta mientras repartÍa leche. una madre de 28 aÑos muriÓ y su hijo de tres y siete aÑos resultaron heridos cuando cruzaban por una calle y resultaron atropellados. se ofrecen $ 50.000 por pistas sobre el conductor que viajaba a bordo de una camioneta gris. >> salen a la luz nuevas imÁgenes de las torturas a las que eran sometidos los reclusos en una cÁrcel de argentina. las imÁgenes ha causado indignaciÓn en ese paÍs y existen mÁs de 100 videos en uno de los cuales aparecen los guardias agrediendo a palos a los prisioneros obligÁndolos a salir de nudos. ocho encargados de la seguridad fueron puestos tras las rejas. decenas de personas se apostaron frente a la embajada de china en la india para defender la libertad del pueblo del tÍbet. conmemoraron unas mortales protestas ocurridas en 2008. para dispersar a los descontentos los agentes del orden los retiraron a la fuerza

i wrote a letter to usda, saying that it was the worst thing i'd ever seen in pennsylvania and that if they could award funding, that they do so. and they did. they did. over $15 million, grant and loan, for that project. mcmillen: and it took years to get funding. what kept this project going was the steadfastness of the community -- they knew they needed sewage, and they just kept plugging along till we got through every issue that came up. the project will consist of 44 miles of line that we're going to put in, and a treatment plant. it will permanently eliminate the problem, the health hazards. i anticipate a definite regrowth in herminie, and it will be a good thing for everybody. zdravecky: maybe it won't help me too much because i'm an old lady, but whoever comes along after me will get the benefit. schwartz: there's nothing isolated about the herminie situation. it's a very common problem. it's a town that was built before current standards. this is not backwoods rural america at all. it's just an unfortunate situation that was created probably a hundred years ago or more. and

why is the governor of pennsylvania doing this well he's got to pay for tax cuts for corporations and he's letting out of state fracking companies pay nothing now what is an out of state fracking company fracking is where they inject basically cruddy poisonous water down into into seems like a coal and shale and things busted all up and it produces natural gas it was it was invented by halliburton and it's promoted by halliburton and turned to cheney's time and what it's doing is it's causing people to be able to turn on their water faucets and ignite their water it's a mess this is what the republicans are up to. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question a new poll shows americans have reached a thirty five year low in their confidence about the u.s. government system why your options are eight because the supreme court's citizens united decision and our democracy over to big corporations or b. because all our jobs going overseas or c. because the middle class is dying or d.d. all of you bob so far seventy percent of you think it's all