, where the university of pennsylvania to talk to her about this book, justice for all. united states commission on civil rights and continuing struggle for freedom in america. mary frances berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission began and why? >> guest: well, the civil rights commission started in 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state about the way the united states is seen around the world because of the racism going on, that people

>>> university of pennsylvania professor steven hahn discusses his latest book the political world of slavery in the freedom. that's next on book tv. he argues historians have presented an incomplete picture of african-american emancipation and struggle for civil rights that followed. professor steven hahn was interviewed at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia as part of book tv college series. .. >> guest: african-american communities involved gender as well as power, but beyond that, i don't know. >> host: well, professor hahn, what do -- going to the topic of the book, what do we know wrongly about slavery in the u.s.? >> guest: well, one of the issues that i try to deal with in the book is the process by which slavery ended, and the geographical reach of slavery. i think the view that tends to be handed down is by the 19th century, certainly, a country neatly divided between the so-called free states and the so-called slave state, and, of course, the civil war growing out of that conflict. my issue is not whether slavery's at the root of the civil war, which it certainl

, where the university of pennsylvania to talk to her about this book, justice for all. united states commission on civil rights and continuing struggle for freedom in america. mary frances berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission began and why? >> guest: well, the civil rights commission started in 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state about the way the united states is seen around the world because of the racism going on, that people would hear about and read about and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether as lynching or some discrimination taking place in the country. so the idea was eisenhower said he was going to ask congress to set up a civil rights commission, which would put the facts on top of the table. i'm told by one of the people who was at the meeting that he slammed the table and said there are the facts on top of the table. and commission says we know who do policy sometimes set up because there's a tough problem and people don't want to do anything

southern pennsylvania will be in the mid 40'. we have some light flurries passing through pennsylvania. most of the state will dry out into the afternoon. watch out for strong winds on the backside of the storm. >> it turns out babies may be proof that if we set up we think better. >> they examine the learning patterns of babies. the older babies that could sit up on their own were able to grab things. doctors say babies who are not encouraged to set up may miss out on opportunities to learn. have you been trying to avoid the nut bins? >> they are everywhere. it is ok to dig in. walnuts have been linked to a lower level of cancer and they can boost the immune system. >> 5:41. plenty of frustration after yesterday's winter storm. >> ava has your full forecast when we come back. >> now insta-weather plus and traffic pulse 11 together. >> a smooth ride for the moment. watch for wet roads. we have wind warnings at the bay bridge. up to speed on southbound 295. problem free on 95 through howard county. 70 at 29 running smoothly in tow

secondly in pennsylvania you are challenged to a republican governor and pennsylvania has a long tradition to have republican governors serve two-full terms. >> i think both california and pennsylvania are great opportunities for us. obviously the governor in california is doing a great job in california. he is making tough decisions i was impressed that he was able to win the referendum that that gave californians a choice that you can pay higher income tax to the yelt or you continue to slash educational -- he won that referendum. california voters voted for higher income tax on the wealthy in order to have an educated work force. that is huge. he does intend to run again. he's doing an extraordinary job out there. i was honored that he momed me to be a chair. we expect him to run and we expect him to win when he does run. we're excited about that race. in pennsylvania, another example of a tea party governor who isn't getting results. now, as you know the pennsylvania society met this weekend there is a lot of very excited democrats that aren't admitting they are running yet but we're g

him the first out gay member of the republican party in pennsylvania. but i'm interested in part because that represents more libertarian impulse in the republican party, one that again feels like it's been sort of overshadowed by social conservatism in the past couple of years. i want to talk about that when we come back and that decision on friday that had all of us in nerdland shaking our heads in disbelief when we come back. [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus presents the cold truth. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but i'm still "stubbed" up. [ male announcer ] truth is, nyquil doesn't unstuff your nose. what? [ male announcer ] it doesn't have a decongestant. no way. [ male announcer ] sorry. alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast acting decongestant to relieve your stuffy nose. [ sighs ] thanks! [ male announcer ] you're welcome. that's the cold truth! [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus. ♪ oh what a relief it is! ♪ [ male announcer ] to learn more about the cold truth

series. >> university of pennsylvania history professor steven speed is the author of this book "the and political worlds of slavery and freedom." professor hahn before we get into the subject of the book what is this image on the front cover? >> that's a very good question coming and the answer is i have no idea. the editor and the press proposes it is a very eye-catching image. when i showed it to friends and colleagues to have no idea what it meant. it doesn't clearly relate to anything that took that's how they chose it. it's a really interesting photographs, and i think it speaks to complex connections within the african-american communities that involved gender as well as power but beyond that >> professor d8 going to the topic of the book what do we know about slavery in the u.s.? >> well, one of the issues i try to deal with in the book is the process by which slavery ended and the geographical reach of slavery. the view that tends to be handed down is by the 19th century certainly of the country neatly divided between the so-called free states and the so-called slave states

we are here in pennsylvania as a case study of states regulating religion. >> sure. pennsylvanians.org sable had an active blasphemy law we that we would now think of as starkly as unconstitutional. in the last case that was brought to the last criminal prosecution under the law was actually blocked in the early 1970's, kind of bye accident against someone who had a slave in his window saying something like wanted radical carpenter speaks to crowds preaching peace, and of course this person met jesus but someone walking past thought of it as blasphemous and complained. the american civil liberties union got involved pretty quickly and the prosecution was dropped. four recently, a film company owner tried to name his company might choose harold productions and was denied under, denied the incorporation under the states in the corporation law because it was a blasphemous title for the company that was dismissed. sec'y you think it started to change in the early 20th century? >> ready for several different reasons. one, especially with the growth of the federal governme

>> bethlehem is in pennsylvania. >> jesus is an american?> yes. >> what was jesus' profession. >> carpenter. >> i believe a carpenter. >> jesus was what? >> a baby. >> he was like a preacher. >> all-around nice guy. he had people skills. >> people skills? ♪ sleigh bells ring. >> three wise men from the east and saw the guiding star in the night and followed it all the way to bethlehem where they paid homage to jesus and presented him with gifts gold frankincense and myrrh. >> the three wise men brought three gifts. gold -- >> i believe one was a lamb. >> did you skip sunday school. >> they saw the stars they were astroll jerusalem. >> they brought frankincense, myrrh. >> and baby diapers? [ laughter ] >> they brought precious treasures. >> myrrh. >> they brought him gold, frankincense and myrrh. >> very good. the christmas degree originated in germany based on a prop in a mid evil play commemorating adam and eve then came over to england and eventually the united states. do you know what country the christmas tree tradition came from? >> nor

special in pennsylvania -- pennsylvania has a long tradition. >> i think both california and pennsylvania are great opportunities for us. governor brown is doing an extraordinary job. he is making tough fiscal decisions. i was impressed that he was able to win the referendum that gave voters the choice you either pay higher income taxes for the wealthy or you continue to cut school budget and opportunities to create a work force that is strange for 21st century jobs. he won that referendum. california voters voted for higher taxes on the wealthy. he does intend to work again. i was honored that he nominated me last week to leave the chair of the democratic governors association. we expect him to win when he runs. in pennsylvania, another example of a tea party gov. hugh is not getting results. -- who is not getting results. there are lots of very excited democrat who are not admitting they are running get. we will have an active field of candidates to challenge an incumbent in pennsylvania who has not created jobs and is therefore not very popular. >> let me ask you about the administrati

that's what republicans are trying to do in pennsylvania.hey don't like the electoral college because it didn't work for them. come back for the place for politics. could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov/pretend to learn your risk. >>> pick up a copy of my book, "jack kennedy, elusive hero." it's high on "the new york times" best seller list. it's the perfect stocking stuffer for fans who treasure jfk's legacy. it will take you into a different time, a different man, a different american, and if you're like me, you will love it. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." there's a potentially big electoral story developing in pennsylvania that you need to hear about. the state's 20 electoral votes went for president obama this year, of course. as is the case in all but two states, the winner of a state's popular vote takes all its electoral votes. now a r

the 1764 issue of the pennsylvania gazette. patient was one paragraph that details the forthcoming shirker act. and the article says the scheme of taxation that had been previously debated in the parliament, whether they have the power termed in the affirmative. that's interesting about this article is this is where you get the first-hand come in the teaser the forthcoming stamp act that we know so well. besides this, and internal tax was cut off and you can see that. besides this, and internal taxes for coming. violence in months and riot because they share not two of the violence that is ordered in the newspapers of the day. in particular this is a supplement to the boston newsletter from 1765. extraordinary for multiple reasons. on the front page of this two page issue is details of destruction of lieutenant governor thomas hutchison's home, lieutenant governor boston. but on page two, from newport, rhode island, we read of similar home destruction of loyalists and monsters. your piece for a three-day riot practical to do li

there is some snow falling to parts of pennsylvania. we can see some snow near williamsport. the precipitation is quieting down. we have to watch out for some strong winds today. >> 4:56. maryland casinos hoping to boost their business. >> five days left to avoid the fiscal cliff. >> we are taking a live picture of the west side. have a good night. here you go. you, too. i'm going to dream about that steak. i'm going to dream about that tiramisu. what a night, huh? but, um, can the test drive be over now? head back to the dealership? [ male announcer ] it's practically yours. but we still need your signature. volkswagen sign then drive is back. and it's never been easier to get a passat. that's the power of german engineering. get $0 down, $0 due at signing, $0 deposit, and $0 first month's payment on any new volkswagen. visit vwdealer.com today. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey t cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. i

how it would affect the university of pennsylvania? >> yeah. if we were to go over the miscall cliff, and more so if there isn't compromise that really establishes the american financial system on solid grounding, then there will be many ways in which we, as a university, and every university in the country will be compromised in the sense of compromising our quality. we will be -- we depend upon the funding of biomedical research to spur innovation in the country. that will dry up. we are committed to making penn affordable for the undergraduates which costs $181 million a year. that's twice the amount it costs us eight years august because we ramped up financial aid, and the more unemployment terrorist in the country, the more we spend on financial aid, and it would be a tragedy if the country moved in a direction to make education less affordable so, we, as a university, are very dependent and very concerned about the fiscal health of the country. >> host: are you also in the classroom here at the university? >> guest: i do enjoy teaching, a

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you have four states you mentioned, pennsylvania, virginia, michigan, ohio.ht now this year in the 2012 election, the electoral vote count from those four states was 61-0, obama. he won all four states. if you get a vote for every congressional district you win plus two if you win the popular state vote, if you did that then romney would have won 37 of the 61 electoral votes. it would have taken the national margin what we have now to 294-43. >> wow. >> basically at that point, florida which was less than a point could win it for romney in that scenario, even with him losing the national popular vote by four points. and then i asked dave wasserman, with the cook political report. i said if you did that in every state around the country, if that was the methodology, how would this year have gone? he said 276-62 romney. romney would have won if you did every state based on congressional districting. gerrymandering is part of it. the other aspect is lot of democratic voters are packed into geographically small areas. it's cities and the districts are drawn in wa

. >> out in pennsylvania, there is an adviser for that. we take a look at the radar and satellite combination. you can see we have some shower activity moving in. the shower activity is in frederick and moving eastward. we will talk about the forecast and where everything is headed. now we want to take a look at the tracffic. >> this is 95. 60 miles per hour. so far so good as you make your way south out of the white marsh area. it is building in volume down to the split and the fort mchenry. the harrisburg expressway continues to run smoothly down to the beltway. 62 on southbound 795 down to the beltway. 58 as you get on to the west side. this is a look from 29. at the beltway, we're still running smoothly. 64 on southbound 295. the continues down towards 175. no delays and no incidents at this hour. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> as concern mounts over the accuracy of the speed camera programs, the vendor launches its own investigation. >> jennifer franciotti is live to explain. good morning. >> xerox conducted a massive inve

pennsylvania, as a case study of states, regulating religion. >> guest: sure. pennsylvania, for example, had an active blasphemy now, which we think of now as unconstitutional, but in the last case that was brought, the last criminal prosecution under blasphemy law was actually brought in the early 1970s, kind of by accident, against someone who had a sign in the window saying something like "wanted: radical carpenter, speaks to crowd preaching peace," and, of course, the person met jesus, but someone complained, and the american civil liberties union got involved, and the prosecution was droppedded. more recently, the -- a film company owner tried to name his company i choose hell productions, and was denied in corporation under the state's incorporation laws because it was a blasphemy title for the company, and that, too, eventually was dismissed. >> host: professor gordon, why did it start to change in the early 20th century in >> -- >> guest: i think for several reasons m one was especially the growth of the federal government in the new deal era. the other

he leads the army out to pennsylvania to get these guys who are rebellious. they don't want to pay the whiskey tax. hamilton has figured out -- >> its attacks on grain by the way. >> the excess grain that farmers use after they have barely pay their rent, they are in pittsburgh and western pennsylvania, i'll pass carlisle but anyway they are paying rent back to the east on their land and they are barely making any money and all of a sudden they have got this opportunity to make money with it excess grain and so whiskey and then they will be taxed on it. basically there is an argument made by bill hoagland whose book, founding fathers, they are drinking whiskey there at the reading. he writes about this and i used him. basically the idea is that hamilton and washington and everyone was saying during the war, these british are making us pay. they created this idea public debt and that funds their army and its horrible. they are making us pay as columnist. we have to pay the higher prices on stuff to fund their debt. they go to war and its horrible. they come to

and more voters in pennsylvania wanted a democrat for their congress person. but pennsylvania will send 13 republicans to congress next month and only five democrats. how about ohio where republicans won the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature in 2010. hey, it was big year for republicans in 2010, right? this time around ohio quite memorably voted for president obama. that made karl rove crazy. ohio went for obama. even so, there were more votes for republicans in ohio congress there -- in congress there. narrowly speaking, republicans had the edge in congressional votes from ohio voters, narrowly speaking. but look what they're sending to congress. look at that. not narrowly speaking. three times as many. ohio is going to send 12 republicans to congress and just four democrats. and that is why all these blue states which went blue in 2008 and again in 2012 ended up with dyed red legislatures, with state houses that are under total republican control and will stay red no matter how blue the state gets for the foreseeable future. mother jone

in scranton, pennsylvania. in yankee stadium, a sloppy mess for syracuse and byu in that pinstripe bowl. here in syracuse, another winter blast. no break from all of this storm. almost a foot fell on thursday and now a couple more inches falling today. we have our ruler here, about 12 inches of snow on the ground. now, we're used to snow syracuse. but we haven't seen this much on the ground in two years. >> reporter: for most, the snow is more than welcomed on their week off. like maggie a pup in berlin, new york. zblin credible snow on top of snow. ginger is back with us now. what kind of totals are we looking to add to what we're already seeing out there. >> the numbers are so impressive. lot of places seeing easily 2 to 4 inches spread over. knox, pennsylvania, 8. salem ohio, had a half-foot. now the snow continues tonight into parts of new england and the brunt of it, the 8 to 12-inch area is going to fall in southern new england. that hot pink spot south of boston into eastern connecticut is where we think

the areas that border pennsylvania could see more than that. temperatures not helping this snowfall to hold on, the bit we've gotten today. 36 in leesburg. gaithersburg at 36. 32 in frederick. 39 in d.c. so what falls will likely be melting very quickly. of course, it's been all morning long that the dry air was over us. so everything working against us really getting any acculating snowfall. but we do have a batch that's moving in, moving through. you can see the white there. as i zoom in on d.c., you can see that we've got it right now around fairfax, around warrenton. the snow will be moving eastward. we have the chance of snow now for the next three, maybe four hours until noontime, but we're not going to get much. after noon, it's rain that takes over and starts eating away at the storm system. this whole event is over with at 3:00, except for the wind and cold. i'll have more on that and what you can expect for the rest of your weekend in a couple minutes. >> thank, veronica. >>> the snow has already started falling in the northern parts

knox, pennsylvania, 8. new england is going to take the brunt of it. >> 20 blocks north of times square, for folks out there watching the ball drop. >> kind of like this. flurries. temperatures in the mid-20s. >>> the other storm swirling out there in washington, is the one angering americans across the country. this evening, three days to go before taxes go up for all americans. will the president's pressure on congress bring in a deal? let's bring in jon karl on this. are they any closer? >> a little closer, certainly not there yet. tonight, congressional leaders are making one last-ditch effort to get to a mini deal. with just three days left, finally a glimmer of hope. >> i'm hopeful and optimistic. >> whatever we come up with it's going to be imperfect. some people aren't going to a like it. >> reporter: right now, it's all in the hands of the two senate leaders. democratic harry reid and republican mitch mcconnell. they're working on a mini-deal that would prevent a tax increase for roughly 98% of ame

the first hint of snow is falling in pennsylvania. northeast, weather channel meteorologist mike seidel live in new cumberland, pennsylvania. what are you seeing? what do we expect the next couple of days? >> light snow on the pennsylvania turnpike outside of harrisburg. travel fine, not that cold and hasn't snowed that much. this will be the first measurable snowfall for philadelphia. may get an inch of snow. new york city, times square, a couple of inches or so on the grassy services. 5 to 7. a winter storm for boston and snow will fall from dinner time to early on sunday morning. the areas where you got dumped wednesday morning, buffalo, syracuse, look for 3 to 6 inches, not the 10 to 15 you had. the major impact at the airports, already the three new york city airports, newark, laguardia, and kennedy, canceled 180 flights. there will be additional cancelations when snow starts flying. a quick hitter. down by tomorrow morning. tomorrow, a sunny, chilly end to the final weekend of 2013. not the animal we had the past week, but torna

and most came from the pennsylvania residents but it is not just a pennsylvania story. >> it is it anal issue. the plane was headed to california and originated in new jersey and i am not sure how many people from pennsylvania were on the plane. it was not a plane full of pennsylvaniians. everyone should want to finish and help and contribute. that is it my hope. >> what are you doing to get the outreach under way. >> we are hosting a congressional tribute to raise awareness and remind them of the importance that the family members and crew made in taking the plane and not letting it land in dc. whether detruction to the capitol or lives. they made a big sacrifice. >> absolutely. i know for the family members there it is personal and important. you must have met with many of them. >> i have, we were in a ceremony recently and a part of the memorial was unveiled on the 10th anniversary. it is really, really important that as a nation we remember all of the aspects of september 11th. it was the beginning of our engagement of a terrible experience. it is it that these people had. >> it

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near harrisburg, pennsylvania, two tractor-trailers crashed. shutting down interstate 83. slowing traffic to a crawl. thanks to the snowing mess, the speed limit on about 300 miles of the pennsylvania turnpike was shaved to 45 miles per hour. hundreds of flights were canceled. delays from philadelphia to those stranded in buffalo. and that shopping trip to return that ugly sweater, not so easy in scranton, pennsylvania. in yankee stadium, it was a sloppy mess for syracuse and west virginia in that pinstripe bowl. we check in with our team from syr. >> here in syracuse, another winter blast. giving us no break from all of this storm. almost a foot fell on thursday and now a couple more inches falling today. we have our ruler here, about 12 inches of snow on the ground. now, we're used to snow here in syracuse. but we haven't seen this much on the ground in two years. >> reporter: but for so many, the snow is more than welcomed on their week off. like maggie, a pup in new berlin, new york. where they have so much you can hardly see her. >> at least the puppy is happy. ginger

the same can be said for southern pennsylvania with 34 to start the day.winter storm is expected for new year's day. it's not a concern from baltimore north. i worry about st. mary's county towards ocean city where it could be an icy mix. 42 on new year's eve, dropping down to 30 degrees at night and a slight chance of an icy mix on new year's day. >> there were hollywood stars who leftinous -- left us in 2012 and those who shot for the stars to include the person who first stepped on the moon. >> it's one small step for man. >> neil armstrong's small step was mankind's giant leap but even up until his death in august, he deflected public praise because he thought himself as only one of thousands who disevend credit. >> i think there are a few people that are waiting to see how i do. >> sally ride became first american woman to orbit the earth in 1983 and after leaving nasa, dropped from public view until her death in july. >> you haven't answered the question, mr. president. >> from space to time, mike wallace spent 60 years mostly on "60 minutes" and mos

murphy of pennsylvania. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for five minutes. mr. murphy: i thank the gentleman and, madam speaker, may i add accolades to your work for the people of missouri. particularly my ancestors who found murphy settlement, now farmington district, you've done it well. lorraine of washington county, pennsylvania, then aged 73, suffered injuries so severe from a car accident that she will never fully recover. after the accident, she underwent a difficult surgery. she contracted mrsa. sadly, lorraine's condition has worsened and she now suffers from dementia and now must receive 24/7 carat a nursing home. the physical -- care at a nursing home. the physical pain mirrors the emotional care. she lost her husband and then last year her only child passed away. lorraine's story is heartbreaking and tragic and it's depressing to learn that medicare is working against lorraine's interest. mountain fall of 2010, lorraine's family and the automobile insurer for

they were quakers in bucks county, pennsylvania. to the extent that i had ancestors there, one of them was a delegate from bucks county who was a loyalist. >> to the crown? >> yes. >> about your father's side? >> my father's family were from respective parts of the british isles. most of ireland and some in england. i don't know. hard to say. the division of loyalties in ireland were -- a lot of the poorer people and the protestants of northern ireland were patriots. a lot of the catholics supported loyalists because the catholic gentry at the time were trying to be accepted in the british empire and they tried to prove that loyalty by subsidizing, raising companies to send over there. irish politicians don't like to emphasize that. but the opinion of the catholic gentry in iowa was loyalists. -- in ireland. in britain, large chunks of -- especially in east anglia, which sticks out from the london area, there were very, very patriot- minded. but that's not where my family in england came from. >> you're born in the bronx? >> no, in

>> the population centers, the biggest populations were pennsylvania and virginia. massachusetts had a good size population. west virginia was growing by leaps and bounds as people went south through pennsylvania and virginia to the western part of north carolina. a lot of the colonies were very small. so they had no real impact in bringing a revolution about. new hampshire and rhode island to a certain extent. new jersey and georgia was very small in population. what i call vanguard colonies were massachusetts, connecticut, virginia and south carolina. not new york and pennsylvania, important as their word, because they were too divided. the vanguards were out in front. >> what were the 500,000 that were not white? >> blacks, free blacks, 50,000 may be. black slaves, 450,000. >> who were responsible for bringing the black slaves to america? >> a lot of people. a lot of people who regretted that they had. a lot of the merchants were quakers bringing slaves in. and then there would not do that after a certain point. in the beginning they were. the british and the fre

a couple of flurries may make their way out of pennsylvania. high pressure builds in to bring quiet weather into new year's eve. then the next storm system skirts by to the south on tuesday which could cause an icy mix across the area. models indicate it would be further to the south so may be a bigger concern to the south. if you plan to travel on tuesday, check back with us. new year's day, up to 41 degrees, 39 on wednesday, partly sunny, quiet through the rest of the week and maybe something else arrives on saturday. >> in this morning's 3-d project, new year's eve tomorrow night, that means parties which will include alcohol. mike gimbal is here with some tips. >> let me first say to everyone, if you're going to a party and you know you're going to drink, don't drive. get a ride home, spend the night, call a cab. if you're hosting a party and serving alcohol, don't let any of your guests leave intoxicated. very simple. now we can get to tips -- but it's a matter of planning ahead, whether you're hosting a party or attending a party. >> resp

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snow and sleet have produced treacherous road conditions from pennsylvania and western new york to maine with more than a foot of snow expected in some areas. this storm so far being blamed for at least six deaths. and as nbc's kurt gregory reports, the storm is creating a post holiday travel nightmare. >> reporter: cleanup on the day after christmas for the deep south. a record of more than 20 tornadoes as a massive storm system ripped through mississippi and alabama and left arkansas with a record-breaking white christmas. that storm system continued its march across the center of the nation wednesday, leaving a near whiteout from detroit -- >> not used to it. it's slick. >> reporter: -- to indianapolis. >> it's definitely a doozy out there. >> reporter: the blizzard-like conditions making getting anywhere nearly impossible, on the ground and in the skies. thousands of passengers were stranded in dallas, where temperatures stayed below freezing, forcing airlines to deice their planes. the storm has caused more than 1,300 cancellations nationwide on one of the busiest travel days of the

western new york and pennsylvania, and around michigan, already in the 30s. that's where the cool and cold air is. it's going to settle in on us tonight and throughout the day tomorrow. in fact, we're going to be a couple of degrees below average. so for tomorrow morning, coats back on, folks. and button them up, too. we'll start out in the 20s and low to mid-30s across the area. after a chilly, dry evening, feeling like december tomorrow. and then light showers with that next front coming in. and more rain expected saturday. especially early in the day. here's a look at your four-day forecast. the high, 47 degrees for tomorrow. so it is going to be dry. and dry also on friday. but with clouds moving in. and the possibility maybe of some showers late in the day on friday. not posting as of yet, but this weekend for sure looking like rain. saturday the high 65. sunday, 55. and that stalled-out weather front still around at the beginning of the week. the high 62. air, or major storms to deal with. >> all right. >> lovely. skirting through december. >> we can't

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it brings renewed pennsylvania to the expanded use of hydraulic fracturing in the state. to give us background, let's take a look at an excerpt from stephen's nbc bay area report. >> reporter: except for a few pieces of machinery, the process of splitting rocks deep under ground with high pressure water mixed with chemicals to release natural gas or oil goes on out of sight and until recently in california out of mind. in fact, fracking to extract oil has been quietly taking place all over california for five decades. from kern to los angeles county, monterey to sacramento. >> we don't have an exact number of how many wells in the state are fracture stimulated. >> you don't know? >> we don't know each individual well. >> reporter: tom kusik is the top oil and gas supervisor at california's division of oil, gas and geothermal resources.

rain, some of it freezing will cross from pennsylvania into southern new england. scattered light showers from coastal carolinas and into florida. >>> kate middleton the wife of prince william is resting at the couple's london home. the duchess of cambridge is recovering from an illness related to her pregnancy with her first child. we have a report now from london. >> reporter: the duchess of cambridge smiled as she made her first public appearance since the royal family announced she's pregnant. she and her husband prince william left the london hospital where kate spent three nights for severe morning sickness. the duchess was still feeling symptoms, she didn't show it. she told the press she was doing much better. she was bundled up to guard against the cold and to protect the royal bundle of joy. >> great end to a great year. everybody is excited. >> reporter: kate will take it easy at the couple's london home. the duchess has cancelled all of her public events for the weekend.

temperatures probably in the 30's in most areas and a few of rain in pennsylvania. is one computer model. locally, we will see crowds -- clouds increase. it may be an isolated shower and then 47 midday. close to 50 degrees by the