the state like pennsylvania.the meantime, the market and the fed. the pace will remain in place. i mean the fed made no moves on tapering. if you see the market has charged higher. at one point we were up 113 points. right now dow jones industrials up 70 points. the nasdaq better by 30 points. the s&p covering up or down about 12 points. 12 to 10 points. the only point we can pull out of what fed chief ben bernanke has indicated in his statement was that there might be something others are calling disinflation. a slowing of inflation. the target of 2%, we are below it right now, that seems to be a slight concern but the word modest economy improvements continues to be used in the fed dealings in the fed announcement today. let's get back here to the facility in collegeville, pennsylvania. what they did was they moved some 800 employees from 15 miles away at the chemical plant where they had a plant as well. they moved it here. this place has the capacity to have 1300 employees. it is a real message of jobs. chemi

the pennsylvania supreme court is hearing arguments this week while pennsylvania republicans are goingng, yeah, actually it is a way to just try to win elections. and grandmothers are in court testifying they never missed an election before pennsylvania voter i.d. made them miss an election. and statisticians are testifying that democrats are three times as likely to not have the i.d. required by the new law and minorities are twice as likely as white people to not have the required i.d., pennsylvania republicans are just for whatever reason now, flat out admitting that the whole idea that they want the law for is to skew elections in their favor by blocking democrats who can legally vote from legally voting. they're admitting it. do they know they're admitting it? do they think they're only talking amongst themselves? from tom corbett on down, subtlety has never really been an asset. right now this is a whole new level. has never been a real asset for pennsylvania. "first look" is up next. >>> good wednesday morning. right now, on "first look," dangerous heat continues across a big ch

pennsylvania constitution. and a decision by the current attorney general in pennsylvania.nd her decision not to defend doma in court. going back to the pennsylvania constitution, three things really sort of stuck out. article 1 section 1, a general statement on hey, we're all free and equal individuals and entitled to certain rights and happiness. and section 26 of the same article gets a little more narrow. it says, you know, if it's a civil right, nobody can discriminate against that person from exercising that civil right. and then section 28, the final section which sort of puts the -- crosses the t, dots the eye as far as i'm concerned. nobody can be discriminated against on the basis of sex. so right there, totally unambiguous. now, i'm confronted with a definition of marriage act in pennsylvania defines marriage as a civil union or a civil contract between a man and a woman. but on the other hand, i have three fairly obvious and important sections of the pennsylvania constitution that sort of disagree with that. i was sworn in in 2008 and again when i was re-elected

we also know this pennsylvania two-thirds of people in pennsylvania support a moratorium across pennsylvania the official position of democratic party in pennsylvania to support a moratorium. >> john: do you have time to go to the web. this is a bigger discussion than we can have in 4.5 minutes. >> the film is on hbo july 8. john: gasland part 2. josh fox, ladies and gentlemen.

we also know this pennsylvania two-thirds of people in pennsylvania support a moratorium across pennsylvania is now the official position of democratic party in pennsylvania to support a moratorium. >> john: do you have time to go to the web. this is a bigger discussion than we can have in 4.5 minutes. >> the film is on hbo july 8. john: gasland part 2. josh fox, ladies and gentlemen. (f(fbt(""wu5$h"a captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> john: that's our show. join us tomorrow night at 11:00. here it is your moment of zen. >> the supreme court now pronounces you man and man, wife and wife or man and wife. onight, political unrest in south america or they're happy. i don't speak spanish. then controversy in a florida courtroom. apparently you can't sue your grand kids for not calling. and my guest tufts history professor peniel joseph will discuss controversial changes to the voting rights act. i hope it doesn't affect "so you think you can dance." italy's president was convicted of paying for sex with an underaged prostitute which

we also know this pennsylvania two-thirds of people in pennsylvania support a moratorium across pennsylvania is now the official position of democratic party in pennsylvania to support a moratorium. >> john: do you have time to go to the web. this is a bigger discussion than we can have in 4.5 minutes. >> the film is on hbo july 8. john: gasland part 2. josh fox, ladies and gentlemen. y comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> john: that's our show. join us tomorrow night at 11:00. here it is your moment of zen. >> the supreme court now pronounces you man and man, wife and wife or man and wife. >> whoa! whoo-hoo! whoa! whoa! [audience ohs] [cheers and applause] >> was that a "suislide" attempt? [laughter] welcome to tosh.o. it was recently brought to my attention that there is another television show out there called "the soup," completely ripping off our format. the whole idea of standing in front of a green screen and showing clips came to me in a dream. it was like a crazy dream with greg kinnear, but he didn't look like greg kinnear. [laughter]

paper currency pennsylvania in particular suffers of huge shortage of paper currency. this is okay with the political elite because they were creditors and they were concerned that the issuance of paper money would devalue their outstanding loan interest payment but for a craftsman or a silversmith for a watchmaker or a printer like frank cliff they had to go into debt to buy supplies so to repayed these was difficult he broke one of the best early papers advocating the creation of a paper currency if drought discussions he showed the draft a work of them together and now as the owner of a printing press the to print those which he did. [laughter] so eventually the pennsylvania assembly did override the traditional interest of the leaked -- she the eighth and he benefited they gave franklin the printing press to contract to produce it for pennsylvania if he extended it with new jersey and delaware. he created a fire brigade and they have a lot of what it houses close together and created the lightning rod particularly for those who did not live in the brick and stone h

lee moving up into pennsylvania is that his army is going to turn so happily towards the looting thathes of pennsylvania will accomplish what the army of the potomac has been unable to do and that is dissolved his army into an undisciplined mob of bandits and these armies are constantly on the brink of that. they are amateurs, inexperienced, commanded by inexperienced people. even those who were professional soldiers at the top of the armies, many of them like dick y yule confessed he spent 15 years for getting everything he had learned except how to command a company of 50 dragoons. what was more the education you got at west point was not an education in combat, in tactics, in strategy, west point was an engineering school. still is. still is maintained under the corps of engineers. though the education you got at west point was about building things, for, bridges, not about combat, not about how to function, not about training. in these parties they didn't even hold target practice for the most part. something which comes to the fore so dramatically as you recall from one part of t

because if you go by cb, in pennsylvania you've got 23 i mean 13-5. so clearly they did that even though obama carried the state as a whole you could argue because of minorities having a role to play. they know what they're doing. the same people pushing the i.d. laws are pushing the change in the electoral college so that only the suburbans and rural voters seem to have the clout. >> well, chris, it comes as no surprise to you that political parties in 2013 are trying to hold and consolidate their power with whatever tools they have. look at the house of representatives where mitt romney won more congressional districts than president obama. but congressional democrats won more votes than those districts. those districts are very finely drawn to advantage the republican party. they have a virtual electoral lock on the house right now. there are not enough swing seats for democrats to compete because of the they were written. they're not representative of the entire country and the way the election turned out last november. but they're a very differen

this was a scandal in pennsylvania which ended up with the dhs head resigning. ridge and a lot of -- three pennsylvania governors in a row have heavy ties to the gas to advocate for drilling and fracking without disclosing those ties in the media. describingreport purgatory agencies in democracy itself taken away from the citizens and that is really the journey and the question behind the new film. the first film featured a lot of people lighting water on fire, and this one is -- >> it is not just the industry. tom ridge was the head of homeland security, former pennsylvania governor, now pay to speak for the energy industry. but yet president obama who last month delivered a major address on global warming and held natural gas drilling. >> even as we are producing more domestic oil, we are also producing more cleaner burning natural gas than any other country on earth. sometimes there are disputes about natural gas. let me say this, we should strengthen our position as the top natural gas producer because in the medium term, at least, it not only can provide sa

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we are looking at showers and storms in pennsylvania and just slipping into western maryland. for us the isolated to scattered storm this afternoon is what we'll be worried about, kind of like yesterday but a quiet morning. we don't have the wet streets like yesterday so beverly said it's better than yesterday. i agree with her. 84 by noon. we'll get sunny breaks. then thank the threat for the passing shower or storm. high of 88. back to 87 at 5:00. south winds at 10. your outdoor plans, you want to get them in, get the outdoor run in, probably better early than late because. the temperatures. here's the moisture we're watching in ohio, pennsylvania, west virginia. it's moving southeast. some of this is not even reaching the ground. some is. some lighter sprinkles may be

we can't call it a marriage in the commonwealth of pennsylvania.azing relationship. >> now sarah gannon joins me to talk a little bit about this. i hear you. i'm getting the tweets. trust me, we'll talk about the legality in a minute. a lot are mentioning the "i" word, incest. are attorneys saying this is a trend for guy couples who do live in states where same-sex marriage isn't recognized? >> that's a great question. it's not for everyone and won't work in every state. the attorney who worked on this case says she's had other calls from same-sex couples who want to do the same thing in her state of pennsylvania, but in this case it only worked because one partner no longer had living parents. >> how did this whole thing start for this couple? >> it's interesting. they saw this happening like you mentioned to other same-sex couples where one would die and the other one was left almost with nothing after paying this tax. they simply thought, you know, we don't want this to happen to us. they're getting up there in age. they were trying to look for

john and gregory, a couple in pennsylvania, are among them. they found a creative loophole. john, age 65, adopted gregory, age 73. >> we have a great house. nice property. and we've built that together and enjoy it together. >> reporter: state law in pennsylvania says when one of them die, the other would have to pay a steep 15% inheritance tax to be able to keep all of those things. they've been together 45 years and didn't think that was fair. >> to have to pay inheritance tax on something that is already really yours somehow just doesn't pass the smell test. >> reporter: attorney marianne rudebush hit the books looking for options and came up with adoption. >> the judge said, absolutely. there's no legal reason i should not approve this and signed the adoption papers and said cross-examination, it's a boy. >> i've heard of situation, on more than one occasion sadly, one part of the couple has died, they've been locked out of a home. >> reporter: ted mar tictin is exquisite equality pennsylvania and understands why they did it. >> a state like pennsylvania still one of the

there's a bridge in pennsylvania that goes i-95 going to new jersey to pennsylvania. it's not tolled now. if we toll that bridge, we can expand from four lanes to six lanes with a side avenue for cars to go off. it would cut waiting time from 45 minutes in rush hour to 15 minutes in rush hour. >> right. >> we can afford to toll that. but the vast majority of bridges, the vast majority of roads there's not going to be a private sector return on investment. airports, yes. locks and dams, perhaps. but there's some infrastructure that the government whether it be state, local or federal is going to have to step up. >> right. and i appreciated your point that even the simpson-bowles report and that group and the work that a lot of us have done in the middle on the budget like senator warner and others, we truly believe that you have to invest at the same time, that it's not exclusive, that you can make that investment in some key things at the same time you're doing a long-term debt reduction by making some of the reforms that were talked about and also looking at closing

this is hard by confined to pennsylvania. in the 201 election cycle, there were at least 1 0 voter suppression bills is introduced in catch this, 41 states practically the whole map all which were introduced all of which were introduced by republicans under reince priebus's sterling leadership. according to the advancement project which i trust that's what's going on. meanwhile the supreme court effectively nullified the best bulwark of suppression in the voting rights acts. >> lawmakers argued the law is not necessary. judith disagrees director of the advancement progress. judith, let's go to the blatant stuff here. aren't you the, i know you're nonpartisan. aren't you stunned that a politician a chairman of a party in a major state like pennsylvania openly giggles the fact that he's got a law that looked like it was on the books till the courts set it aside that discouraged democrats generally obviously minorities in big cities from voting and he was thrilled that it shaved half of obama's fleur reality off the ledger? >> t

he filed the challenge in pennsylvania.ng here. >> great to be here. >> what is the pennsylvania's attorney general position on same-sex marriage telling you about the impact this could have on your lawsuit? >> well, to make one thing clear, so she's said she's not going to defend the constitution at on pennsylvania's ban on marriage for gay people. she is enforcing the law. until the court has the final word, same-sex couples won't be able to hamarry. eric holder didn't defend the defense of marriage act for many reasons. the attorney general in california did the same thing and in illinois did the same thing. the list goes on. what we're seeing is not just increasing support by the people for the freedom to marry but also increasing recognition by the attorneys general of the states that these laws can't being defended. >> you mentioned increasing support from the public. the aclu is moving forward in lawsuits in states like north carolina and virginia with more on the way from new jersey to hawaii. how much is this about

he knew the people of pennsylvania favored independence. and he was the decisive voice in the pennsylvania delegation. so, by drawing himself behind the bar, that is, if you walk into the assembly room of independence hall today, you will see that bar that, keeps visitors from walking into where the founding fathers were doing their deliberations. he, left, that part of, you know, the main part of the assembly room and withdrew himself behind the bar along with his colleague robert morris, giving a bare majority of pennsylvania delegates the ability to vote in favor of is and to make this the unanimous declaration of the united states of america. i really do think that that, that humility, and that understanding, ultimately for the needs to come together a something a good many of our congressman, not to mention our supreme court justices could benefit from. >> i know your next book, has the working title, the founding fathers are spinning in their graves. and, you're interested in questions about channeling or translating their principles

the land that that merits representation so everybody can have representation now the state of pennsylvania is a perfect example of what these just sketched districts look like it has eighteen congressional districts and those districts are drawn by the state legislature meaning they are drawn to the advantage of whichever party controls the state legislature if republicans control the state then they'll draw the districts that benefit republicans by marginalizing democratic voters that's what happened in two thousand and ten so that in two thousand and twelve elections even though democratic congressional candidates won eighty three thousand more votes than republican congressional candidates republicans still walked away picking up thirteen out of eighteen seats in the state in other words the majority of voters in pennsylvania aren't getting the representation they voted for drew spencer staff attorney with fair vote dot org currently we're using this winner take all as a most legislative bodies are elected from single seat districts so they'll be a little geographic area and you vote th

and today we are in pennsylvania. specifically in pittsburgh. pittsburgh was a great place -- all of pennsylvania -- for the immigrants, the italian immigrants to find jobs. the mines, the coal mines, in the appalachian mountains. and then, of course, the steel businesses along the rivers and specifically in pittsburgh. about seven years ago, in a restaurant development, we opened lidia's in pittsburgh down on the strip. the strip is an area right by the river, downtown. it's a great area, as well as pennsylvania avenue, and that's still bustling. there is cafes. there's some great paninis. i'll show you how to make the primanti's panino, which is quite interesting. so today i'm going to make baked ziti. one of the pastas that's favorite at our restaurant there. and i understand there's not a wedding going on in pittsburgh unless we have baked ziti on the table. so, let's start with that. i have some simple marinara cooking. the penne, or the ziti, are done. so let me just put them right in here. we'll toss them with the sauce, with a little ric

we've got storms, though, firing up in pennsylvania and ohio. up in these areas.even into pittsburgh seeing some of that thowndzer and some showers -- thunder and some showers north and west. you can see the showers out of northern virginia, some toward central maryland now and the thunderstorms west of pittsburgh this morning coming out of ohio. but locally these are for the most part pretty light showers. you'll need the windshield wipers here. some into frederick county. now martinsburg back toward hancock and western maryland and here in toward fauquier county, this is where we're seeing a heavier shower or two going almost down to washington into the other side of the county line. northeast of marshall, fauquier county, aldie south we're seeing some of those showers. that extends northeast toward poolesville with a light sprinkle. west of mount airy on the east side of route 75 it looks like we have some of these heavier showers here going to past east of walkersville for the most part. a spotty shower this morning. temperatures are well up in the 70s, althou

cullen with the suspicion that he was murdering patients in pennsylvania, as well, that he was usingigoxin to murder patients. >> kroft: and you found this out making two phone calls? >> baldwin: yes, basically. >> braun: that... that was it. >> kroft: did you think you had your man? >> baldwin: yes. >> braun: yes. >> kroft: but the detectives knew that proving it would be difficult. a number of law enforcement agencies had tried and failed. how helpful was the hospital in this investigation? >> braun: how helpful was the hospital? they were very helpful by answering court-issued subpoenas. that was the extent of their cooperation. >> kroft: when the detectives asked to see computerized records from the automated drug dispensary in the critical care unit, they say the hospital told them that wasn't possible because drug dispensing machines only stored records for 30 days. they learned otherwise from the machine's manufacturer. they lied to you? >> braun: yes, they did. >> kroft: they didn't want to give you records that turned out to be crucial to your investigation. >> braun: yes. t

. >>> pennsylvania's strict voter i.d. law is being taken to court on monday to decide if it should be enforced or if the law is unconstitutional. the 2012 legislation could require pennsylvania voters to show a valid photo i.d. at the polls. state officials say it will cut down on the fraud and opponents say it will discourage people from voting. >>> the royal baby hype is bigger than ever. any day now, william and kate are expecting the birth of their first child. even souvenir shops are getting in on the excitement, stocking up on royal baby merchandise. >> a very subtle royal collection. we've had a huge response. in fact, a couple of the lines sold out the first weekend we put them in our stores. >> bookmakers are betting on today or tomorrow as the big day. >> i kind of think tomorrow and maybe a girl. that's my bet. >>> for an early look at today's business headlines we turn to jackie deangelis. good morning, jackie. >> good morning, betty. stocks coming off their second best week of the year with the dow and the s&

now, i'm confronted with a definition of marriage act in pennsylvania defines marriage as a civil union or a civil contract between a man and a woman. but on the other hand, i have three fairly obvious and important sections of the

when pennsylvania republican told the "national journal" "never seen anything like this.willing to help him any more." found his numbers are in the tank. 35% approve of corbett's performance. corbt doesn't appear to be going anywhere. so, gearing up for 2014, i guess, but, perry, we had a number of these republicans elected in big, in many cases, blue states in the 2010 republican wave and it looks like none have done worse than corbett. >> elected rick scott, scott kasich and all did controversial things. he is the most vulnerable person is very surprising because he hasn't done a lot. scott walker really tried to break the unions in wisconsin. rick scott tried to really stop the health care law. kasich is anti-union things in ohio. corbett has passed the voter i.d. law. those are two things that republicans like. he is inefebive and he's not very good and he's not chris christie who has appeal to democrats and republicans and also not a scott walker, who is able to pass and he doesn't have any allies which is surprising because he hasn't done anything to hurt himself. >

the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. meehan: mr. speaker, i thank the gentleman from mississippi for his comments and i also want to recognize as he does the great work that was done by congressman pascrell on this issue as well here in this house. and when i had the good fortune to begin to do work on the house homeland security committee, it was congressman pascrell who was among those who brought this issue to our attention. the failure or lack of the ability to see the issues that the talent commission put forward, put into place. so i want to thank him for his good work on this issue as well. mr. speaker, i have no further speakers at this point. and so if the gentleman from mississippi has no further speakers, i'm certainly prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves his time. the gentleman from mississippi is recognized. mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i have no further speakers, and i am prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. thompson: than

meehan from pennsylvania. the chair will reduce to two minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote after the first vote in this series. the the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 2 printed in house report 113-158 by the gentleman from alaska, mr. young, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 2 printed in house report 113-158 offered by mr. young of alaska. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial pur

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>> pennsylvania. >> where did you go to school? college instate pennsylvania. school inuate pennsylvania. >> is there anything in your lead you tould think that you would be writing this blog ? >> i call it a website. harkin back to my high school days. they do these preference tests for children in high school. that i had aaled predilection towards the persuasive arts. my career moved into writing and research. studiedo school and i planning in graduate school. , who would have imagined the web. >> you have been doing this for how long? we first engaged the search function in june of 2008. it has been up for five years. >> i have a bunch of stores in the of and -- oven. a lot more to come. the politicse from section. it is about paul conrad. showing a cartoon president nixon caught up in a watergate spiderweb. why did you pick paul conrad? >> he was in the news. his work was very visual. that first graphic -- the watergate graphic -- was very dramatic. yet others that i used in the piece. -- he had others that i used in the piece. he was on nixon's enemies lis

. >> the pennsylvania native was in town for business back on november 28th, 20 12. he was exercising on an elliptical machine when he felt chest pains. he asked the hilton staff to call 911. it turns out he was having a heart attack. captain todd barb says his decision to take action as soon as he felt symptoms was crucial. >> early access to c.p.r. is very important because for every minute c.p.r. is not being performed and that circulates blood throughout your body there's a 10% chance you're not going to make. it. >> he was alive and awake but went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance. >> in my 25 years i've only had six full resuscitation shins. >> -- i've run hundreds of cardiac arrests. >> after receiving an accident he spent several dates in the hospital in pennsylvania but he's now made a full recovery and adopted a healthier lifestyle. >> since the incident i've lost 70 pounds so i'm continuing to try and get down a healthy weight. i'm getting closer. from the bottom of my heart i really appreciate everything you've done for me. it means the world to me. >>

joining the panel, former pennsylvania governor ed rendell. and bloomberg clm nis and msnbc political analyst jonathan alter. joining us from the white house north lawn, political editor and white house correspondent of the "huffington post,"," sam stein, also an msnbc contributor. sam, you're standing on the lawn of the white house. people have said, oh, this is obama just doing what he can he because there is nothing left for him to actually do legislatively but i wonder really if this is the end of the line or the opening salvo to the fight and fall? >> i think the fight and fall was sort of the backdrop of all of this. obviously you have to continue funding the government. that's going to happen at the end of september. then a short time after that we're going to have to raise the debt ceiling unless more revenues come in so these are two trigger moments basically in which we can either have a complete collapse of governing functions or we could have some sort of break-through. and i think what the president was trying to do more than anyt

perry of pennsylvania. page 22, line 8, after the dollar amount insert increased million. -- $31 million. the chair: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for five minutes. mr. perry: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, we've had a continuing debate about american energy independence. one way for america to achieve real energy independence is to utilize our own renewable and clean energy resources. currently there are over 800 dams across the nation waiting to generate power. the dams are already sitting ere, sitting on our nation's rivers. all across the country waiting to generate power. just waiting. now, from sacramento to savannah and right on the river where i live, the power and the consistency of the water flow on these rivers is truly impressive and, as i said, consistent. the energy created from this immense water flow is something that america should harness for the use of individual and commercial power. in that vain, this amendment would increase the water power emergency -- correcti

. >>> pennsylvania's strict voter i.d. law is being taken to court on monday to decide if it should be enforced or if the law is unconstitutional. the 2012 legislation could require pennsylvania voters to show a valid i.d. at the polls. state officials say it will cut down on the fraud and opponents say it will discourage people from voting. >>> the 5-month-old hunger strike at guantanamo bay has reportedly shrank by 26. going from 186 to 81 over the past five days. >>> the royal baby hype is bigger than ever. any day now, william and kate are expecting the birth of their first child. even souvenir shops are getting in on the excitement, stocking up on royal baby merchandise. >> we've photo thissed a connection, a very world connection. we've had huge response. in fact, a couple of the lines sold this past weekend that we put them in the stores. >>> bookmakers say people are betting on monday or tuesday as the big day. >>> well, a new week on wall street and main street begins with twinkies and other hostess products retur

nearly 10 million uninsured pennsylvania ans could have benefited. joining me now, a former member of mitt romney's advisory group. what's the matter with white people? and a democrat from new york. this news, i'm of two minds about it, the actual news part of it, which is what this means for people who are sick and want to get health insurance doesn't seem like a huge deal. are we in agreement of that aspect of it. >> it's less of a deal, it includes -- it affects very few people, because 95% of firms with more than 50 people give health care now, and the employees of large firms that don't will be able to, starting in october, to sign up for health care on the exchanges with subsidies from the federal government if they make less than $94,000. >> the employer mandate has never been a super popular idea among health care wonks to begin with, i would say in a bipartisan fashion, this one particularly, because the penalty was going to be less than one would pay to get health insurance, never seemed it was going to do that much in either direction. >>

the question i had i called the wilkes-barre question after pennsylvania. is anybody here from wilkes-barre? no kidding to the unbelievable. unbelievable. there was nobody from wilkes-barre in san francisco last week i can tell you that right now. [laughter] the population of contemporary wilkes-barre is slightly larger than the population of virginia in 1776 now if we go out there to wilkes-barre now, do you think we can find george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison, george mason, john marshall and patrick henry? we are not going to find them. now on some theoretical level, they, are there. that is human beings with the capacity for leadership, are there, but the situation doesn't permit the group to rise to the surface. and so the question is why did the situation accessed in 1776? now there is an answer to this after arnold, which is that great leadership only emerges during times of great crisis and this makes sense the pressure the crisis creates. yet we can all think of examples where there is a great crisis and there is no leadership like n

we pulled away from that as we started to grow in the pennsylvania market.s growing into maryland, be new jersey, delaware and kind of grow in adjacent markets now. we build a brand, a reputation for that brand. the consumer likes it. then we move onto the next state where it's already known. >> remember our backyard just remember where you came from. we just kept this company alive by not forgetting where we came from and they've inspired us here and not just in our pottsville area harrisburg and philadelphia and we've sold beer in those markets for many, many years. i call us a local regional brewery. we depend so much on the local area we won't want to lose that. we certainly don't want to lose the support that we've gotten regionally. it's your backyard. this is the oldest brewery in the united states. ♪ ♪ we are the generation now >> you can't sell the yingling brewery to joe smith. so the you hope one of the family members takes it over. next generation is jennifer and wendy that there's a great interest on their part to learn and take over and i think

watching the showers and storms out in pennsylvania and ohio.up here limping along coming out of west virginia what's left of them toward northern virginia, i-81, headed toward the blue ridge here. a couple of sprinkles in frederick county and caroll coun

host: craig is next, pennsylvania, independent caller.aller: i want to thank you very much for actually pursuing this. i have several items i can discuss on this. i work in iowa as a tax accountant, and iowa is a state also where, the other caller mentioned, i've industry was fine -- private industry was fined $65,000 by the epa and another walked away scott free. i am in coal country here and there was a power plant that is getting ready to close down, and this number is from one of the employees -- i am not one hundred percent certain -- $100 million to convert to gas, or everybody loses their job. you drive through central pennsylvania and there are no polluted streams here. we have had coal since we started mining it. there are issues from old mines from the early 1900s which have been cleaned up and you see a little bit of that around, but the new industry, there is nothing. my clientso say that list -- of course, i can't give names or anything like that -- 15% of them are really struggling because of the coal industry and what the e

a flash flood warning has been issued in areas like pennsylvania and delaware. nbc's meteorologist bill karins joins us now. you think we pull this out of the archives, right? we are talking about july here. >> i know. eight inches of rain in a day. the records in philadelphia go back 140 years. that's the most rain they have had in a day in 140 years. it's not just a little "broke a record" high. that's impressive. more rain than some areas in the west get for a year. let's show you the big weather story of the day. tropical storm flossie. it was looking impressive 24 hours ago. it died off last night. it's trying to come back with thunderstorms near the middle of it. it's a weak tropical storm headed through the hawaiian islands. that's an unusual situation. it's not going to do a lot of damage but should cross over the top of hawaii. winds will be 40 to 50 miles per hour. some of the higher elevations will get heavy rain and flooding concerns. that will be the worst of it. not expecting much problems with the waves bus they will be bigger than normal. nothing