would carry pennsylvania.t i'm more confident today. the president has found his voice on the populist issues and public agrees with him overwhelmingly. 66% of republicans believe that millionaires should pay more taxes. i think the president has found his voice and found an issue, looks like a leader. i think he's heading in the right direction. and the republican presidential candidates are going to have to carry a huge burden on their back and that's the republican congress. >>> i'll have to leave it there. good to see you again, ed rendell, former pennsylvania governor and speaking of pennsylvania, one of ed rendell's old friends and supporters congresswoman allison schwartz joins us now. pennsylvania is front and center in a lot of ways. let's pick up there on the president's approval rating, the job rating in pennsylvania in september, not good in terms of 54 believing he deserves a second term -- rather 54 disapprovaling and only 44 thinking that the president deserves a second term. how do you turn tha

the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pitts: at this time, i yield one minute to the distinguished the gentleman from louisiana, dr. john fleming. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. . mr. fleming: thank you, an let me thank you mr. pitts for your work on this bill and your entire life. the protect life act would accomplish two important things, remove funding for abortion and abortion coverage under the patient protection and affordability act and it would extend the conscience protections to pro-life doctors, nurses, hospitals and other health care facilities who object to destroying the lives of unborn children. i've been a doctor for 36 years, father of four, grandfather of two, and i can tell you that the taking of innocent life is not health care. it is not health care. having said that, this country is still divided on whether or not a woman should have the right to take an unborn infant. however, the country is not divided on the issue for who should pay for it and that issue is ta

senator toomey my colleague from pennsylvania for his cooperation in moving our pennsylvania judicialnominees forward, i'm grateful for his help and his cooperation. i rise to speak about judge cathy bisoon, the daughter of brooklyn, new york, born there and became a pennsylvanian after law school. cathy bisoon is of hispanic oarnl in, her mother from was the west indies and her dad from puerto rico. when she was just 4 years old and living in the williamsburg section of brooklyn, her father was stabbed to death in a park blocks from her home. her mother remarried and her family moved to queens, and as i mentioned before, she moved to pittsburgh after law school. this is a remarkable american story, an american story of economic achievement, of overcoming obstacles, and of striving for excellence. her educational background is stellar as well. she received her j.d. in 1993 from harvard law school after receiving her degree in political science summa cum laude in 1990 from alfred university in alfred, new york. a summary of her career is as follows. her service as united states magistr

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in pennsylvania we know firsthand with the marcellus gas shale that's there, it gives pennsylvania a second chance to revitalize our economy in pennsylvania and become one of the driving states in the economy of the united states of america. we know that firsthand. it was pennsylvania 150 years ago with its coal and oil that was found there that made pennsylvania so key in the growing and building up of america. i want to focus on the funding that would go to transportation. my colleague has a great visual aid up there talking about the needs, almost $1 trillion we need to invest over the next 15 or 20 years in our roads and bridges. aviation, $87 billion. our dams which are very much in need. sewer and water, we have about a $300 billion back log to rebuild the infrastructure to get rid of sewage waste and make sure we have clean drinking water. $5 billion in inland waterways and locks an dams which are so critical this country grew up, became a power because of our waterways, being table move goods at a very inexpensive rate. we need to revitalize those and continue to use the wate

pennsylvania was the worst. they published only the supreme speeches of two federalists, james thomas and cain. you'd think they were debating with ghosts, exempt for one place, guy from western pennsylvania, john smiley, interrupted wilson to fill him in on some point that wilson had alluded to so you'd know at least smiley was there so they purged all the speeches of those who were nonfederallist, and they went further. there was an editor in pennsylvania, alexander dallas -- went on to fame in other ways -- who published the pennsylvania herald, and he took it in his head that he would publish running debates, basically almost transcripts of what was said in the convention. these were very small. they weren't like "the new york times." sometimes they head four pages. to tell one day at the convention would take more than he had. so it took a lot of time and he skipped around at bit. he was still publishing these after the convention adjourned, and unfortunately, some of the speeches by what the federalists ca

some sprinkles around pennsylvania. chilly wants to get away from the city. 44 in york, pennsylvania, with some light rain showers. driving southbound from pennsylvania come you guys will drive into the dry weather. we have a chance for a rain shower, 20%. a mixture of sun and clouds. high temperature of 2 70 this afternoon. good chance for rain in the forecast tomorrow. >> reports that your hair stylist could end up saving your life. a new study reveals one in three to examine their customers neck and scalps for suspicious skin lesions. over half encourage them to see a doctor. most of the professionals have not taken a course for skin cancer, a half for interested in participating in an education program. miller, of the scalp and nec account for 10% of all small number of deaths in the u.s. -- melanoma of the scalp and neck account for 10% of all deaths of melanoma in the u.s. children >> learn best from human interaction. television-viewing can cause delays in language development. 90% of children do allow their chil

up into the blue ridge, all through central pennsylvania and eastern pennsylvania. then outside of the big cities of new york, philly and up there into connecticut and massachusetts. so high pressure to the north, low pressure off the carolina coast. that low pressure system is going to track just a classic nor'easter path up the coast. right now setting the stage, high pressure to the north. temperatures aren't that cold. this storm is literally going to generate its own cold air as it intensifies during the day today. also pull down some colder air up there in northern new england. we don't have a lot of snow that will stick during the morning hours. it will be as the storm intensifies that we'll see the heavier snow. you'll notice on the radar, the green is the rain. that's pretty much the i-95 corridor. just a rainy saturday morning. now back now into west virginia and central pennsylvania. that's where the worst will be during the day today. the blue on this map shows you where heavy snow is by 4:00. by this evening it will push through new york and philly and

there's still a long cleanup in york and lancaster, pennsylvania. now here's susan candiotti in new york. >> hi, chad. of course, there were a lot of delays in the northeast at several airports. the biggest mess was in hartford, connecticut. there reportedly about two dozen planes were stranded because of the bad weather or diverted there. and passengers in many cases were stuck on the tarmac for eight to nine hours without any food, without any water. and they certainly did have their cell phones and they were calling people to complain about what was happening including bathrooms that didn't work. >> they're filled. they're totally filled. nobody can go in them anymore. you have to hold it. >> bathrooms are locked. people are quite upset. >> now, jetblue is one of the airlines involved in this and said, yes, we were partially at fault and wish we could have deplaned passengers sooner but they said the airport was also to blame. there were other problems involving amtrak, for example. you mentioned that earlier, fred. a train that had originated in

very frigid conditions in pennsylvania and new york, where they have winter weather advisories right now. things could get wintery around here by saturday. but for the rest of the evening, 60s. cloudy, breezy he, scattered showers and getting cold tonight in the 30s. we have much more in the outlook for friday and saturday coming up. >> you could get the latest forecast and a live look at maryland's powerful radar in the palm of your hand. abc 2 weather app. and track down storms to your neighborhood or get an hourly or seven-day forecast. find the link to download the abc 2 weather app. abc2news.com/weather. >>> tanker truck loses control rupturing the tank before exploding the flames after crossing the dam. with it, workers are, are trying to contain a environmental catastrophe. right here the tanker traveled north across the dam in the seizeel county. when emergency responders arrived at the scene, the tanker had smashed into a guardrail and burst into flames over the north folks, southern railing road train track. >> they found an injured party with the tractor trailer involved i

pennsylvania being hit hard. already there are power outages. chad myers is in york, pennsylvania.se big tree limbs full of leaves. they're bending and in many cases breaking and snapping and coming down. >> reporter: they are, absolutely. entire trees are coming down. in fact, i was on the turnpike coming here from harrisburg, down to 83 and then this way, and there were trees completely across the roadway. people were driving around them. this was four hours ago. this is back-breaking snow, almost heart attack snow. it took me literally about five minutes to put down a huge snowman down the hill. i think this snow could be record snowman ireport snow here, if you want to put an ireport down for us make sure you give us a yardstick. or at least have your child stand next to it. temperatures down to the upper 20s. winds blowing 30 po 40 miles per hour. there's also something possible in upstate new york, connecticut and maybe even northern pennsylvania where the mountains aren't so high. something called snow rollers. if you wake up tomorrow and see big rolls that almost look like

pennsylvania in its constitution initiative that idea of a census every ten years and today we do all sorts of things. we look at education, race, ethnicity, etc., in the census but it's initially in pennsylvania and the convention than me an idea of the census is to count people in regions and that would be the basis for determining how many representatives in the region would send and so how many representatives as opposed to massachusetts as opposed to virginia but this was pioneered in the states in the constitution when mcveigh experimented with representation in population so it was -- >> what was the largest colonies back then and the smallest? >> the largest colony in terms of area was virginia. virginia and extended -- they claimed all and that is now part of ohio and illinois and indiana, and it had a very large population as well and then rhode island would have been the smallest both in terms of territory and people. >> so when you look at the reapportionment that goes on in congress now, how does this come back from our history? we are talking about the geographical zones

vice president biden in pennsylvania on the right talking to a school.g the education aspect of the $447 billion jobs act. i am chris jansing. veronica de la cruz is in for tom matt roberts next. i will see you back here tomorrow. diarrhea, gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. >>> good morning. i'm veronica de la cruz in for thomas roberts. it is the one-two punch for president obama and joe biden. joe biden will be speaking at an elementary school in pennsylvania about getting teachers back into the classroom. president obama is in a different critical battleground state, north carolina. he is about to giv

western pennsylvania into west virginia at this time. you can see what's happening here because that pattern has that westerly wind coming in here. it is very cold on the backside. we'll be dealing with high pressure moving into the system. as we go in through the rest of the evening, we'll have a chance for light drizzle, light showers. we're going to do it all over again and as we head into tuesday, we'll get a little bit of drizzle but that system starts to pull away with us and we'll be replaced with high pressure. it is going to be cold, so make sure you have that coat as you head out and about. 55 degrees, more scattered showers. continued chilly by tomorrow night. mostly cloudy. those temperatures still remain below average. the seven-day forecast, we like it here. we'll start to warm things up nicely, kelly, and we'll see those temperatures in the 70s. i love this forecast. i'm so happy to be able to say this. one upper level low last week replaced with the other one and that will finally get out of here. >> it went from fall to

we found the second-largest find of natural gas in the world under mostly pennsylvania. we are drilling 3000 wells a year. and guess what happened to the natural gas price? you heard the president earlier this year give his energy speech. he gives an energy speech every year. and he gives this energy speech and he says, a drill baby turtle was a joke -- baby drill was a joke. they made fun of it. this was at cleveland state. all listings are laughing. julian does not work. supply does not work. it is like a teacher at the school, instead of economic 101 he went to economics 50 1/2. he ignored supply. the only way to reduce prices by reducing demand. well, guess what happened to the natural gas price as a result of what is going on in pennsylvania? when i left the senate six years ago, the gas prices was about $12. it is $3.60. supply works. [applause] we need to drill in pennsylvania and alaska and offshore and wherever we can. we need to have an energy policy. and i disagree with the speaker on this. we do not disagree on much. he wants to fund everything. i want to cut

two to 4 inches of new the pennsylvania and west, 35 degrees to 41 degrees for the high temperatures tomorrow. advisories' for snow in cecil county, a watch in effect for hartford, nor the baltimore county, montgomery county. the purple areas are a warning. as for the most -- that is for the most significant snow is expected. by saturday afternoon into the evening, he began to see the snow close in and temperatures will drop. as far as how much snow, the distribution of snow in the area, the heaviest amounts will be up in pennsylvania to the west. it can go over two inches of snow. around baltimore itself, there may be 1 inch or two of snow. trace amounts to nothing south. most of the eastern shore will get nothing rain. here is the forecast. 28 degrees tomorrow. not very high. the brain and the snow makes -- some accumulations to the north and west of us. sunday looks dry. the baltimore ravens game looks good. halloween also looks dry. good for trick or treaters. the rain chances and a height near 60 on thursday. and what a turnaround. >> into knight's consumer alert, a lawsuit has

we found the second-largest find of natural gas in the world under mostly pennsylvania. we are drilling 3000 wells a year. and guess what happened to the natural gas price? you heard the president earlier this year give his energy speech. he gives an energy speech every year. and he gives this energy speec and he says, a drill baby turtle was a joke -- baby drill was a joke. they made fun of it. this was at cleveland state. all listings a laughing. julian does not work. supply does not work. it is like a teacher at the school, instead of economic 101 he went to economics 50 1/2. he ignored supply. the only way to reduce prices by reducing demand. well, guess what happened to the natural gas price as a result of what is going on in pennsylvania? when i left the senate six years ago, the gas prices was about $12. it is $3.60. supply works. [applause] we need to drill in pennsylvania and alaska and offshore and wherever we can. we need to have an energy pocy. and i disagree with the speaker on this. we do not disagree on much. he wants to nd everything. i want to cut every

it is in the 30's in upstate pennsylvania and back into new york. temperatures will be and it low 70's as approach to the mid 70's like yesterday. low to mid 40's in pennsylvania. sunshine is our forecast for today. upper 60's and low 70's. tonight, clear in chilly. temperatures will drop back to may be near 40 in the colder suburbs. tomorrow, the high pressure will still be in the vicinity. the wind will still be coming out of the north or northeast. the high temperature will be 71. then the wind will turn to the south and that will make the temperature job. 76 on saturday. 80 on sunday and we'll keep the sunshine. a slight chance for some rain on tuesday and wednesday. that is a great forecast. >> retailers have modest expectation for the holiday season. will the expectations translate into holiday deals for shoppers? we have more. >> the holiday shopping season is looking just ho-ho-hum. more than $460 billion. this is less than last year's increase of 5.2%. a sign that consumers are hesitant to open their wallets more than they have to. a linger

freeze warnings in central pennsylvania. your bus stop forecast, we've got wet weather this morning with scattered showers. temperatures from the mid-50s to mid-60s. sun not up for a while so 7:30. one more week until we fall back. that will be saturday night, november 5, sunday morning the 6th, if you will. 61 degrees at 8:00 a.m. with the rain showers still around. southwesterly winds. noontime fewer showers. that will be the case this afternoon as winds turn to the west by 4:00. mid-60s for highs. northwesterly winds tonight start cooling us off and clearing us out. by 8:00 partly cloudy and 54. we'll be in the 30s and 40s. low 40s by tomorrow morning. rains have been moving in from west to east. down south not raining yet. down in reedville they're all quiet. also down toward richmond. but we've got rain here and more rain from west virginia is going to come right over us over the next few hours. live doppler 9000hd, light to occasionally moderate rain showers across the region. breaks in western montgomery, southern lou

pennsylvania and its constitution initiated the idea of a census, for a census every senior's. today will begin all sorts of things, education, race, ethnicity, except to read in the census. initially in pennsylvania and then at the philadelphia convention, the main idea of the census was to count people in regions, and that would be the basis for determining how many representatives the scent. and so how many representatives delaware would send as opposed to massachusetts as opposed to virginia. this said pioneered in the state's. they experimented with representation proportional to population. it was a melding of the old and the new. >> host: what was the largest colony and the smallest? >> guest: the largest colony in terms of area was virginia. virginia extended to -- well, they claim the land that is not part of ohio and in illinois and indiana. it had a very large population as well, and then rhode island would have been the smallest both in terms of territory and people. >> host: when you look at the reapportionment that goes on to in years, how does this come back to o

this big area of lying blues into pennsylvania. still, we will watch this very, very carefully. today, looking at 51. 39 with the rain and the snow. sunday, we will be clearing out sunday. 49. by halloween, 54. monika. >> the big story of the morning, luckily it's against the rush hour flow, but it's worth mentioning. northbound side of 270, you can see how slow it is up here. truck lost its load of nails at 1:20 this morning. i just got off the phone with maryland state police, and they said maryland state highway is on the scene to try to clean it up. at falls road, fine again. northbound 270 to montgomery village avenue. the left lane and hov lanes remain open. southbound is okay. silver spring construction from never -- from overnight, being cleared off. on the outer side, outer loop side, you should be okay if you're just now headed out the door. the west side, the big construction project that vdot has been working on. not only 66th eastbound and westbound on the beltway but also the beltway itself on the outer lane. be aware of that. the south side of town. betine eisenho

harrisburg, pennsylvania, is not able to pay its debts. the picture is improving for eastman kodak, getting cash by licensing some of its digital patents. kodak gets $10 million upfront from imax to brighten and expand its big screen movies. "reel steel" beat off the challenge from "footloose" at the box office. but the tally was very close. >>> 6:18 now. 2000 people joined me at a walk for parkinson's disease entered at nationals ballpark. it was the first year for this. it raised hundreds of thousands of dollars. lots of awareness as well about partparkinson's disease. we were fortunate because the sun was shining and was perfect for being outside and walking. >> a good day and a good time. >> we were thankful for that. >>> it's that time of year where it's all or nothing. it's the perfect or very windy with areas of rain and drizzle we had been experiencing. on a weekend there was sunshine and comfortable temperatures. that will continue today and tomorrow in the mid 70's. big changes by the middle of the week. first, a cold front this

some rain up in southern pennsylvania. there is a chance you could see a sprinkle in your neighborhood but most of the will have a dry morning commute. that will change tomorrow. there is a storm coming across the midwest. these will combine and visit us in maryland on wednesday with a good soaking rain. but not today. a mixture of sun and clouds. a slight chance for a rain shower on this tuesday. we'll make it into the upper 60's and low 70's today. mostly cloudy tonight. a chance for a few rain showers. the best chance for rate tonight will be after midnight. tomorrow, those storms will work the way up the coast and travel across the mid atlantic. a good chance for rain on wednesday appeared in nice piece of canadian air that will come down behind it and we will see the coolest air mass of the season and we could have our first frost. today, high temperature around 70. a good chance for rain on wednesday. thursday will struggle to get out of the 50's. there's a night and friday night, it could be called enough for some f

it's not just york, pennsylvania. that swath behind you is huge. it encompass as good part of the northeast. >> the i here up in elevation the higher your snow totals will be. it's a tricky forecast. as well as that fine line between the rain and the snow, really the iran 95 corridor is kind of that zone where we're seeing most of that transition so the big cities will get some snow but not going to be foot of snow you'll get into some of the higher elevations. our storm system is intensifying and we're seeing those snow totals increase and winds are beginning to pick up. new york city, for example, we're looking at sustained winds around 20 miles per hour. you've already got 1.3 inches of snow on the ground in central park. that's a record four. you never had that much snow ever in the month of october. 1.3 you may say that's a walk in the park so to speak but that's a record breaking snow. it's a rare event to see something like that happen this early in the game. let's talk about how quick this thing will move on through here. get through tomorr

folks in pennsylvania could get up to a foot. as far as the rest of the day is concerned, into the evening, mostly cloudy skies tonight. snow ends late. winds will be heavy, though. still, northwest 15 to 20 miles per hour. gusts 30. check that out. 28 to 35 degrees. bundle up. it might be a good night to order pizza if you ask me. heading out to the ravens game, mostly sunny, unseasonably chilly. i have to change this because looking at some of the models, i think 50 is pushing it. we're talking more like 45 or 48 degrees, so remember the jacket. folks trick-or-treating, 50 degrees during the day. when we head out at night, we're talking temperatures. we start getting back in the swing. another system moves through. 50 degrees. we're back in the high 40's by friday. >> i'm thinking he doesn't have a half bad bad idea. >> summer recall. coming. >> a remarkable story coming up. >> we have two recalls to tell you about in "consumer alert." a handtruck. over-inflated tires can cause the wheel hub to break causing injury to bystander

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we'll start with chad myers out in the thick of it in pennsylvania. looks like more of the snow has melted. how soon before the lights are back on? we last spoke, you said at least one family you saw had some power. >> reporter: they put a couple lines back up today in this neighborhood, the wyndham hills neighborhood, and they've got about 100 people back online. that was the triage that they were using. if you put one line up and you get 100 homes back on, you're pretty high on the priority list. if you put one line up and you're the only house that lights back up, you're way on the bottom of that totem pole. i have a question for you, don, if y

for us we're watching this rain and new york state and pennsylvania.s is going to slide more east and a little southeast and i think some of this will be around at times late this afternoon. we'll call for spotty showers here and there. as we go through the morning, this stuff in pennsylvania and new york fizzles out a little bit then late this afternoon. here we are at 6:00 p.m. you'll see the showers really into west virginia and al couple of stragglers getting into northern virginia. more than likely the showers overnight and then tomorrow morning, stop the clock just before 6:00. on thursday, 5:45, notice the metro north and west dealing with the rain. some of it heavy in western maryland and west virginia. that is with us on and off through the day on thursday. they'll start to sag south late thursday. 6:00, shenandoah valley seeing some clearing as far as the radar is concerned. much cooler friday. friday's highs in the low 50s and then late friday notice the moisture returning? that rain could be here saturday and hold temperatures saturday in t

we're seeing that plentiful right now in pennsylvania, west virginia, ohio, eventually it will move into philadelphia and later today into areas like new york city. so, just be prepared for that. also showers and storms this morning in and around the dallas/ft. worth area and we could see showers and storms kansas city to minneapolis. midwest clears out tomorrow. still damp from the ohio valley to new england. if you're watching us on wc 6 in portland, maine, see paintings that illustrate the elegance of american life in late 19th century at portland museum of art. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> now here's an early look at this morning headlines in entertainment. yesterday in new york city protesters got a surprise visit. by kanye west. gold chains and all. he showed up on the front lines at operation wall street to lend moral support, but he was forced to retreat when excited crowds around him got unruely. >>> english soul singer adele leads all performers for the 2011 american music awards with four nominations. all announced yesterday. followed by katy perry, lady gaga, lil wayne, rihan

our chad myers is in york, pennsylvania, where some of the heaviest snow is coming down. susan candiotti in new york city where weather threatens the occupy wall street protesters and our meteorologist, jacqui jeras, is standing buy in the severe weather center. first let's get to cnn's chad myers. chad, it looks like winter has already arrived in western pennsylvania and it did it early. >> reporter: it really surprised a lot of people. and it even surprised me because on wednesday, this really wasn't forecast to be a one-foot snow event. then it surprised me today when i went to the rental counter at the airport and said, i need a four-wheel drive. and he said, why? now we're in this position where snow's coming down. a couple of trees on some lines. i don't think they're power lines, more like cable lines or telephone wires. now that it's starting to get dark, things are starting to get colder. this coldness will begin to freeze all this muck on the roadway. there's stuff on the side of the roadways. this stuff here, it's just hard -- it's got salt and grime and stuff

he actually did 13 years in pennsylvania for stabbing man and leaving him to die on a pennsylvania interstate. so. again, already charged in the murder of jane mccain, we expect him back here soon to face charges in the death of william mcquain. >> all right, bruce leshan of course we'll be continuing to follow up on the story and have the latest information on the website throughout the day. wusa9.com. and on 9news now at 5:00 p.m. bruce leshan reporting. >>> the obama administration is reaching out to the new government in libya. secretary of state hillary clinton made an unannounced visit to the country and she pledged millions of dollars in aid. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: hillary clinton's surprise visit to libya starts with a warm greeting from the country's new military leaders. the secretary of state then met with the interim leader and its new prime minister. >> we give you our very best wishes and promise our best efforts as you undertake this journey to a new democracy. >> reporter: clinton is the most senior u.s. official to travel to libya since fall of muammar gadh

it's spinning back through pennsylvania during the course of the day today. done with our rain chances yet. but as it comes back around here, we're watching a little bit of a break. one or two slivers of sunshine. that low will go back around us one more time, late tonight, into tomorrow, and finally pull off the jersey coastline and move out to sea. but that will be tuesday morning by the time the area of low pressure starts to spin out of here. so as a result it will be tuesday afternoon before our weather really starts to improve substantially. today, mostly cloudy, chilly. a few showers coming back into the forecast later this afternoon. highs today, 48 to 55 degrees. back to work and school tomorrow. again, more clouds and sunshine. passing showers from time to time. we're not looking for a lot of rain. but it will be enough to sort of keep your spirits a little gloomy. here's your forecast then. at least a 40% chance of some showers coming back into the picture later on today. 40% chance tomorrow. any rain on tuesday is in the front half of the day. tue

heavier rains in pennsylvania out toward ohio and west virginia now. locally, live doppler 9000 hd, got a decent little break right in the immediate metro with scattered showers out to the west and to fauquier county, prince william down toward around colonial beach into dahlgren. we'll watch this lift north of us. later this afternoon with a little bit more heat than we've got now only in the upper 60s. we're currently 64 in town with upper 50s up toward frederick and the shenandoah valley. monika samtani has been a busy lady in the traffic center. >> it has been busy for a wednesday morning. it is all due to the rain and the wet road conditions. let's take a look at the maps. on the beltway, we're fine. we'll zoom into 95. you've already got the slow traffic basically from the prince william parkway up to the occoquan river. then that stretch of volume between newington and springfield up ahead. we'll take a live look at 395 at edsall road. back over to the maps, and this time, let's zoom into the west side of town. you can see all of the yellow cars

you'll see the rain on hd doppler moving into western pennsylvania right now. it is still a good distance away from us. some of that rain will move and by this evening and that rain will be likely overnight tonight and during the day tomorrow. we have high pressure off the southeast coast. the surface wind will turn from the southwest. the temperature will be mild. the average high temperature is 64 and will make it close to 70. a good chance for some rain with cooler temperatures on tap for thursday. a mixture of sun and clouds. a chance for rain late in the day. upper 60's and low 70's. rain showers likely to die. upper 40's and low 50's to fight -- rain showers likely tonight. rain showers likely to mark with a high near 60. another storm comes in on saturday with some rain showers and among the cold enough on saturday for a few snowflakes to mix in. it will clear on sunday for the ravens game. halloween looks ok on monday with a few clouds and a high near 63. >> thank you. 49 degrees on tv hill. up next, we'll take a look at one of your answers to our water

we did it in pennsylvania, number one.rget of the original stimulus, there were $350 billion of tax cuts. so if tax cuts were the answer, the republicans would have loved the first stimulus and it should have worked even better than it did, because that was 40% tax cuts. look, the bottom line is, if our pennsylvania experience and every experience sis $1 billion on infrastructure, 25,000 jobs, we would have been producing nearly 2 million new jobs. >> you have the last word. >> first of all, in terms of historical context, we've had ten recessions since world war ii. this has been the most anemic recovery of all ten. if we had been growing about the average rate of the last ten, we would have had about 12 million more jobs than we have right now. number two, as republicans say, they don't like some of they measures, because they're tempora temporary. people make judgments over the longer term. >> let's do it now. >> but don't put everybody's life on hold while you do it. >>> let's tend this another time. ed rendell, rick l

the storm stalled over central pennsylvania and dump to record amounts of water. i suspect that we will have additional problems. does everything seems stable enough? people have told me i am windy, but i did not know this was going to happen. suffice it to say, the community needed a friend, and needed someone to sit there and be with them as they went through these extraordinary days of being isolated by flood waters of the likes of which central pennsylvania had never seen before. it was a thrill, almost, to be able to sit there and help people get from point a to point b. to let them know what services were available, how to get supplies. the community responded and it worked very well. another occasion was not a natural disaster, but it happens to be three mile island. we talk about honesty being the best policy when it comes to businesses dealing with the public. in this case, it is not what happened. it made the circumstances much worse. the lieutenant governor came out to meet the press that night after a meeting governor thornburgh and met with of the own

maine to pennsylvania, because of wind. you're talking about heavy wet snow, gusty winds, at times along the coast, you're going to be looking at wind gusts up to 50 to 60 miles per hour. that's very dangerous in itself and also i want to take a look at some of these temperatures. they're hovering into the low 30s. what that means is that the snow that's coming down is of the heavy wet type. a lot of the leaves have not fallen off of the trees because it's only fall. you'll be getting heavy wet snow on top of those leaves that accumulate on trees. tree limbs will be coming down, some trees have been reported already down across the entire northeast and along with power outages because some of those power lines are also coming down. again, travel very dangerous tonight, especially as we head into the nighttime hours when it gets dark out there. now, as far as the timing on the storm system, this is 9:00 p.m. tonight. it's still going to be snowing around philadelphia, new york city, up in through portions of southern new eng

north of that in pennsylvania a freeze warning is in effect.ur day planner calling for spotty showers for the rest of the afternoon. 64, 65 for a high. the late afternoon and evening winds are going to shift behind a front that will clear us out a little bit. we'll go partly cloudy tonight and temperatures by 9:00 low 50s. by tomorrow morning, low 40s 234 town with mid 30s in many of the suburbs and closer to freezing up north where the freeze watch is in effect. look at this on the radars how everything has been moving from west to east. things not as intense but we still have some rain around generally light rain out there but lots of breaks and upper montgomery and northern loudoun county out through areas in fauquier county south of 66. here from d. c. points east, well, light to occasionally moderate showers and even into southern maryland the eastern shore. howard county, you're also starting to clear out some. we'll take you up north here, the lower part of montgomery county silver spring, bethesda, up 29 and up to columbia, we still hav