they didn't communicate with philadelphia. but the rumors -- wrote to his friend, matthew ridley, quote, not much for the interest of america that peace should be made at present. think about that. not much in our interests that peace should be made. it is in our interest that the war be prolonged. meanwhile, up at the camp in newburgh, the officers muttering and murmuring, there arrived a new general. his name was hoe ratio gates. horatio gates was not a man much troubled by principle or loyalty. early in the war he had distinguished him as the commander of the american army at the battle of saratoga. a great victor in saratoga where he ge de feeted general behr goin. we sometimes forget about that year, 1777. general washington retreated from brandywine, germantown, and lost philadelphia. washington's reputation was sinking fast. and there were those in the congress, among them samuel adams and others, new englanders in particular, who thought that gates might make a better commander than general washington. and there were r

washington arrived in philadelphia to great acclaim. parades and fireworks, endless banquets and toasts. they even wrote an opera in his honor. he went fox hunting, his greatest pastime, and, indeed, was having a wonderful social time in philadelphia. but not political. he did not attend the sessions of congress. that would have been improper for the commander in chief to attend congress. but every monday night he, robert morris, the financier as he was called, the equivalent of our secretary of the treasury, governor morris, no relation to robert but an important figure in the congress, alexander hamilton, james madison and, perhaps, a few others met for dinner. it was at these dinners that these men discussed what had happened in the congress that day, usually very little. they discussed the fact that the nation was bankrupt, the congress was paralyzed, and the army had not been paid. what to do. what to do. these men formed the core of a kind of shifting political alliance in the congress of men who were nationalists. these were men

holiday guys it to thaddeus young and then to rookie lavoy allen 98-82 philadelphia. knicks. back in the pack in the big east chance for a victory a night for the demons down by six at the end of timeout and rosemont. college football game reloaded today first state high school football players can side letters of intent can sign letters of intent tim beckham notre dame got qb gunner kiel but receiver deontay greenberry and jumped from the irish to houston at last minute and niu's class of 31 has a ton of illinois players including offensive lineman scott taylor from marian central catholic and northwestern pat fitzgerald wrapping up a better recruiting season including receiver kyle prater from proviso west transferred from usc east and high school. pass rusher from ohio ranked top half of the big tent. not that that matters. >> it is also. it is great. went to the rose bowl with worst recruiting class and the big 10 many of you guys are awesome. you look back to the first-class and all of those guys do not know if any experts were excited they were all right >> incr

these two men then replied to the men from philadelphia. knox replied first. to governor morris. he told governor morris "i consider the reputation of the american army as one of the most immaculate things on earth. we should even suffer wrongs and injuries to the utmost verge of toler ration rather than sully it in the least degree. i hope to god that the army will never be directed that against the enemies of the liberties of america." a few days later, washington replied to hamilton "the fatal tendency to involve the army in political matters would be productive of civil commotions and end in blood. i stand as citizen and soldier." citizen and soldier. well, the nationalists had been rebuffed by knox and washington and so they quite naturally turned to a man with whom they knew they could deal. general gates. general gates at his headquarters at ellison house, very near the encampment was surrounded by a young staff of majors, lieutenant colonels. an interesting sidelight, in talking about the events at newbergh it has been suggested general gates was unaware of what was going

when the philadelphia arora revealed that he had overdrawn his salary to pay the heavy costs of official entertaining, washington suffered the tortures of the damned but he never complained not publicly. privately he railed against editor who were guilty in his words of stuffing his papers. >> historians have spilled barrels of ink imagining the relationship between young washington and focus on powell, the sophisticated wife of philadelphia's former mayor and washington confidentant who did not hesitate. tipped off to his eagerness to retire at the end of his term, mrs. powell knew exactly what buttons to push. were he to leave office, in the spring of 1793, she told washington, it would give joy to the constitution's bitter foes, ambition had been the moving spring of all of your actions seen by your career was glorious, with profound address withdrawn yourself from a station that promised nothing to your ambition and that might eventually involve your popularity. you love philosophic retirement she told washington, convinced the world that you're a practical philosopher and your nativ

this year seems crazy but a philadelphia for you not to have a gun. crazy as. we need water to live and you can't live without water and philadelphia or news over streets you can't live without a gun at an early. communities calling the police they might come hour later forty five minutes later that's a lot of time for anything that you know to be perfectly honest. i have a gun. and i'm not the type of guy who kill people i never killed anyone and i'm not that type of family but even a family man. and it's crazy. like . philadelphia's reputation is one of the deadliest so you're actually in the deadliest neighborhood. in one of the deadliest cities in one of the deadliest countries. in the civilized world. if you've been shot before. like on two different occasions twice and today and how many of you know somebody who's been shot raise your hand if you know something's been. ok so i'm going to walk you through the experiences of one young man this is lamont adams you know if you notice more than ten thousand people. this is hard to wrap your mind arou

the port of philadelphia is a perfect example. the state has advanced $15 million to continue deepening the delaware riverable cha-- ri channel. thf is this is a project that links our economy to the world. [ applause ] representative, i appreciate that and i will give you a couple more chances. you see the panama canal is being widened and deepened to accommodate the new generation of tankers. those ships can dock anywhere on the east coast from virginia to boston and anywhere that is except philadelphia, where the river is too shallow. we want those ships tying up to the docks of philadelphia. the world's best inland port. once we complete the work. our estimate suggested over the next five years as many as 75,000 jobs will be created or saved both directly and indirectly. this is not just a compact with today's economy. it is a vindication of our history. philadelphia was founded as a port city. it received countless people into the new world. through war and peace, it has been our gateway to the atlantic and beyond and we inte

the license plates on the car are the same that was on the car that was in philadelphia, mississippi, yesterday. and apparently this is off to the side of the road. it wasn't going toward meridian, but it was going in the opposite direction. now, whether there are any bodies in the car, we won't know until we can get into the car ourselves. we've got agents, of course, on the ground and as soon as we get definite word i'll, of course, get word to you. but i did want you to know apparently what's happened these men have been killed. although, as i say, we can't tell whether anybody's in there in view of the intense heat. >> now, what would make you think they've been killed? >> because of the fact that it is the same car that they were in in philadelphia -- >> that's an audiotape from an oval office between lyndon johnson and j. edgar hoover, the bodies were found on august the 4th, 1964. there was an election coming up. you'd become the assistant attorney general for civil rights. what's the story about schwerner, cheney, and goodman, and what role do you play? >> well, they were part

unrepen tent to the last, the philadelphia aurora proclaimed, quote, every heart ought to be high with exultation the name of washington from his day ceases to give a currency to corruption. washington characteristically declined to engage his nemesis in public debate. privately he confided, quote, this man has celebrity in a certain way, for his calamise are to be exceeded only by imputence and both stand unrivaled. with his usual quiet competence, presidential secretary tobias saw to the packing of 97 boxes, 14 trunks, 43 casts, 13 packages and 3 hampers for transport on the salem. lea would perform a more personal service on a bleak december night, less than three years later, when he ministered to his friend, as washington lay dying at mt. vernon from a lethally sore throat. by then, washington had performed his last, great service to his country. in the spring of 1797, he had expressed the wish to his future son-in-law that the virginia legislature might see its way to adopt the policy of gradual emancipation of slaves. it could prevent much future mischief, said washington, to vi

george clinton mcclellan of philadelphia. i see we have some philadelphia fans in the audience. if you go over here to the virginia bookstore, you can buy the little napkins, you know, that says to be born in virginia is really something special. philadelphia, you can't buy them. your money's not good enough, you know? you have to have a pedigree. graduated number two in his class, west point, class of 1846. he was commissioned in the corps of engineers. not like people like george picket, vovshoveled into the in tray, the smartest guys typically went into the corps of engineers. in the decade following that war he was one of a group of young proteges of the very, very active, engaged secretary of war jefferson davis. because geoff davis hjeff davis bit of confidence in young captain mcclellan in the 1850s he was part of a handpicked group that he sent to the crimea in the siege of sebastopol. mcclellan established a reputation then as being very, very intelligent in his approach to dealing with british and french engineers and sent some excellent reports back to the united stat

. >> of philadelphia has of -- new questions about the mayor's use of the skybox. >> a special common the recognition of his contribution to civil rights. >> a winter weather advisory for the northern suburbs. some rain and snow are on the way for the weekend. it is relatively mild here in town. >> the baltimore mayor has announced the city will enter into 85-year agreement with a new motor sports promoter. -- a five-year agreement with a new motor sports promoter. the city canceled its contract with baltimore racing development last year after the company did not pay an estimated $12 million in debts owed to investors, the city, and the state. >> the mayor says there is no governing policy about its use. jane miller takes a look at one city that does have rules about how the skybox is used. >> near stephanie rawlings blake knowledge there are few rules governing the tickets. the guest list shows most skybox tickets went to the mayor's family, political friends and supporters, and staff. even her campaign officials and professional fund-raiser were included. >> i am sure you would lik

. >>> a worker was injured after a cherry picker toppled in philadelphia landing right on the street there. he was aboard the basket when it came crashing down breaking his femur. his crew was doing work on the rectory of the cathedral when it came crashing down. no one on the ground was hurt. >>> in florida one of the last times you'll see a space shuttle on the move. shuttle "atlantis" being rolled to another building where the orbiter will be renovated and parts removed as it prepares to go on permanent display at the visitors center beginning next year. >>> finally, zombies are invading georgia, at least they are while shooting a movie near savannah. locals are being used to play the undead and producers are looking for more extras. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is meteorologist todd san tows with a look at your forecast. >> i'm glad you mentioned that. otherwise, folks in savannah would have been curious. >> a little frightened? >> yeah, curious. strange name for a movie too. >>> this morning, there are a few areas not so much in georgia but at l

a worker was injured after a cherry picker toppled in philadelphia, landing right in the street. he was aboard the basket when it came down, breaking his femur. the crew was doing work on the rectory of a cathedral when the crane crashes. no one was hurt. >>> in florida, it's one of the last times you'll see a space shuttle on the move. though the journey was slow and short. nasa released video of the shuttle atlantis being moved to another builder where it will be renovated and have parts removed as it prepares to go on permanent display at visitor's center beginning next year. >>> and finally in the everglades, it's make snakes al. an explosion of burmese pythons has wildlife workers learning how to catch the snakes all by themselves without getting bit. no one knows how many pythons are slithering across florida, but the experts say they're not leaving any time soon. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's todd santos. he has your weather channel forecast. good morning, todd. >> i'm glad you told me that story after i got back from southwest florida. >

a day after he was cleared to testify in a priest scandal, there is a big mystery tonight in philadelphia. >>> outbreak. tonight the virus that's highly contagious, even after you're feeling better, and where people have come down with it so far. >>> and making a difference on the homefront. a war hero, his bride and a dream come true, just in time for valentine's day. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. the obama white house today tried to recover from a fumble. they veered into an area that had all the makings of a political firestorm in an election year. they were accused of waging war on religion, needlessly meddling in birth control. that's what some of their friends were saying. this started on january 20th, when the administration announced religious institutions would be required to offer free birth control to employees as a benefit of health care. the white house tried to end this today. we begin tonight with white house correspondent kristen welker. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this was a politica

. >>> a worker was injured after a cherry picker toppled in philadelphia landing right on the street there. he was aboard the basket when it came crashing down breaking his femur. his crew was doing work on the rectory of the cathedral when it came crashing down. no one on the ground was hurt. >>> in florida one of the last times you'll see a space shuttle on the move. shuttle "atlantis" being rolled to another building where the orbiter will be renovated and parts removed as it prepares to go on permanent display at the visitors center beginning next year. >>> finally in the every grades, an explosion of pythopythons. wild life workers have being trained in python catching classes. instructors show them how to do so without harming the reptiles and the program will include first responders. >>> now we turn to todd santos with your weather channel forecast. good morning. hopefully you don't have any flights booked to florida. >> i just got back seriously. so i'm glad we just found out about this now. want to take you to a few areas where we might see some travel issues on the roadway

the murder rate has gotten so bad in philadelphia the city is offering up to $25,000 in reward moneyre on frustration and also the fear in this city. >> reporter: stuffed teddy bears, balloons and flowers mark the spot where a store clerk was gunned down. rosemary fernandez rivera was murdered because police say she witnessed a murder in philadelphia at the same spot a couple months earlier. the curbside memorial is a stark reminder of her execution style murder that sent fear through kensington, one of the city's toughest neighborhoods. >> i'm afraid of becoming a neighbor to becoming a victim. >> in one month, philadelphia has already been hit with a series of killings. a man opened fire positive a car full of teens, killing three of them. another man was beaten to death hailing a cab on a busy downtown street. then she was shot multiple times behind a store counter. dr. chuck williams, an education professor at university, says what set this january apart is how heinous the killings are. >> i think people are desperate and learn that the way to handle it is with a gun. >> they say

perched in the hills northwest of philadelphia, the rebel capital recently surrendered to general howe's redcoats. valley forge represents the war's low point for washington and his shivering army. a year has passed since the surprise victories at trenton and princeton. no one who observed the british route at princeton would ever forget the sight of washington astride blueskin pursuing the fleeing invaders while shouting at the top of his voice "it's a fine fox chase, boys!"sive instincts, the commanding general believed that history might repeat itself at germantown in the philadelphia suburbs, ten months after his little army did the impossible to the watch words victory or death. once again, washington counted on the element of surprise to shift the odds in his favor. his overly complex battle required no fewer than four separate columns to converge on the same spot by as many routes. in the event the morning fog obscured his vision, at one point the fearless commander rode far out in front of his army. exposing himself to enemy fire, chm in the sound of mind th whizzing bullets. vic

. >> las imágenes de lakers de los Ángeles y 76 de philadelphia en pensilvania . >> con este disparós . >> supera a shakeel onell . >> kobe bryants necesitaria otros 5 años para superar a jórdan . >> y el tribunal de arbitraje deportivo mutla por dos años a calderón desde el 2010 . >> podrá competir desde agosto así que se perderá el tour de francia . >> es la información deportiva continuamos con más . >> gracias ¿qué tal? buenas noches de regreso para la tormenta invernal en california después de una serie de días sin lluvia ahora entra este sistema, banda definida desde el pacífico . >> en las zonas altas sobre 6000 pies de altura . >> lluvia y fuertes vientos, mucho cuidado en las autopistas . >> con humedad en la región . >> el sistema se extiende hasta mañana . >> va a continuar lloviendo la máxima será más de 56° . >> vientos continúan el sistema dura entre 7 a 6 horas y nos quedamos con cielos despejados y aumenta la temperaturas hasta el próximo sábado . >> en san josé también . >> sábado algunos nublados ligeros y nos mantiene secos los últimos 4 días . >> detalles mañana b

george brenton mcclellan of philadelphia. i see we have some philadelphia fans in the audience [ laughter ] >> if you go over here to the virginia bookstore you can buy those little napkins that say "to be born a virginiaen is really something special." in philadelphia you can't buy them. your money is not good enough, you know? you have to have a pedigree [ laughter ] >> graduated number two in his class at west point, 1846. he was commissioned in the corps of engineers. unlike people like george picket, he went into the corps of engineers. he was a veteran of the war with mexico where he served with distinction. in the decade following that war he was one of a group of young protege's of the very, very active, engaged secretary of war jefferson davis. because jeff davis had quite a bit of confidence in young captain mcclellan in 1850s, he was part of a hand-picked group that davis sent to the crimea to observe the french and british in their siege of sabastapol held by the russians. mcclellan established a reputation then a

we're working with the city of philadelphia. they're doing some very innovative waste water work. >> can you tell us what that trip cost? >> not off the top of my head, sir. >> can you tell us what your travel budget is? >> we can get you the information, sir. >> can you tell us who sets your travel budget? >> our overall travel budget is down. it's decreased every year. i set our agency's budget to ask folks as much as possible -- >> is it several million a year, several hundred thousand a year? >> i don't know. we're happy to get you the numbers. >> is your budget up to you? >> i take responsibility for the reductions in travel that have happened every year that i have been here. yes, sir. >> i want to ask about your nonprofit grants. we went to your website. and, um -- some of them, seem to be absolutely total -- total sense. the american lung association. some of them are bupuzzling. you have 1,000 friends in iowa yaw gave $30,000 to. you have 1240urks friends in pennsylvania you gave $85,000 to. alabama people against a lit

where the los angeles clippers left it late to secure a victory over the philadelphia seventy six ers blake griffin and chris paul combining for a game winning shots in the dying seconds as the pacific division leaders came away with an extremely narrow seventy eight seventy seven away when philadelphia started strongly with blackout lou williams among the five six players to school double figures with eleven points the clippers blake griffin was on song in the second quarter though a great move hey reading with a huge dunk well worth another look. drew griffin. then figure prominently in the final moments diving to save an errant pass rumpel the move resulted in pole draining a tough shot with just three seconds left over one of the league's best defenders and andre it. proved to be the difference as the clippers held on a seventy eight seventy seven win. now russian athletes are steadily becoming a major force at the paralympics although the winter games of the country's four say russia is slowly climbing up the ranks in some of disciplines as well all corresponded ramón course the

bruce springsteen is taking over the national constitution center in philadelphia. starting today the center is showing off the boss' memorabilia, including his 1960 corvette handwritten lyrics, even his jeans. the exhibit was first displayed at the rock 'n' roll hall of fame. >> that's the outfit he wore on the cover of "born in the u.s.a." >> reporter: also on display his oscar for his song "streets of philadelphia." she's a little girl with a big heart. the new feature opens today. >> my mother, father and i are all borrowers. we borrow things that won't be missed if gone. >> reporter: it was first published in 1952. it features a family of tiny people who live in the nooks and crannies of a human house. two of the actors call the animation amazing. >> the way the film comes alive on screen is like -- it's all hand drawn like literally. it's visually just sort of encompassing. >> my favorite part is when she's repelling in it the walls with her dad on her first little exploring mission and it does a wrap around thing that looks like you're on some amazing crane s

philadelphia put in place strict rules. and she defended her years of the city skybox, mayor stephanie rawlings blake acknowledged there are few rules of knowledge in the tickets. most tickets the passed ball season went to the mayor's family, political friends, supporters, and staff. even her campaign officials and public fundraiser were included. >> i'm sure you would like to think there is a deep philosophy, but there is no guiding principle. >> in philadelphia, they use specific roles. a spokesperson said too many of the tickets under a previous marriage going to political friends and and fighters. the policy spells out who goes where. >> two to city council coming two to employees, the rest and nonprofit organizations. no tickets can go to city contractors and their ticket can be used for political fund- raising. it also requires public disclosure of revenue uses the skyboxes on a public basis. >> at the baltimore could really benefit. >> this group is pushing rawlings blake to ensure that it is used for the public's b

a bunch of the guys got together in philadelphia. thomas jefferson wrote the declaration of independence and we have a revolution and we break with england. well, no. a good third of that country didn't want to break with he can gland. they liked king george. they considered themselves englishmen. the great silent majority, that was thrown about a lot in college, the great silent majority in this country in the 13 colonies could care less about breaking with england. they liked, particularly in the southern states, places like north and south carolina and georgia, you have cotton farmers. you have people clinging to the coastline because inland, it's indian territory. it is not a nice place to be. it's a dangerous place to be and these people like the british. they like the big ships sitting off shore. all of a sudden we're talking about what, independence? it's a hard sell to the people. as i got into it more and more, i became more and more fascinated with the story and characters just like has happened to me before, i'm very fortu

and now we're joined by garrett ferry in philadelphia he's founder of market tamer dot com if i can go to you first in philadelphia thank you for joining us here one of the things we're talking about earlier in the program is the facebook's ability to expand one thing that's very interesting about the eight hundred forty million forty five million users that half of them go for use the facebook from mobile instruments you know i got an i pad or something like that and facebook gets zero revenue from that if people are accessing it from their telephone is this going to be have to be the next major breakthrough for us for facebook and other social networking because i'm not going to pay for advertising on my telephone i don't know anyone who will. well i think what's interesting about facebook is they can actually generate money even if people are not clicking so they can generate from brand awareness just by impressions being placed on phones so if you are looking for example at the numbers four hundred million plus mobile users that set to increase that at the rate they're generating r

. >> february, 2011, a vicious attack on a 13-year-old philadelphia boy. nadin khoury says the assault came because he is small for his age. he made the rounds on the view programs eager to highlight the attacks. what about other countries? those that convert from islam. attacks like the one against nadin khoury occur regularly throughout the muslim world a the american main stream media is unlikely to tell you about it. >> this 12 year old publically professed his faith in turkey by wearing this silver cross. >> it is not the physical cross, it is the meaning of the cross that is important. it is a beautiful thing. i wanted people to ask me about it and i could tell them about christ. >> hussan was 9 years old at the time. he had questions about islam. questions that non could answer. he discovered the truth in the bible and church. after he came to faith in christ, he felt so eye alive. >> i was so joyful. >> after he accepted christ, hussan wanted to share the good news with others. he was unaware of the potential danagers for leaving islam. his silver