philadelphia developed technologies to pump water from the river into the city. these technologies established engineering concepts that are still the basis for our water systems today. europeans flocked here. it was a destination point to see the new world technology. when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new y

the largest cities in the country, new york, philadelphia, and boston.hat should we learn about those three large cities? >> two of those 13 states are not yet members of the union. both north carolina and rhode island held back when the rest of the union adopted the constitution. america was overwhelmingly a rural, farm based society. there were three roads in 1800 that cross. the united states was a nation in name only. it was pre state nations. it was new england, the middle states, and the south. each of them had one major city. philadelphia, the largest city in the nation, with all of 40,000 people. one of the things martha washington found not altogether to her liking was the fact she was uprooted from the agricultural, rural life she knew and had been poured into. -- born into. it is only the latest chapter of her sacrifice which, in its own way, you could argue it matches anything her husband sacrifice. >> that is true. she did not want to go to a city. she wanted to be home at mount vernon. but, she had to be there with her husband to do what he

disturbing, par done me, disturbing new details in the abduction of a 5-year-old girl from philadelphia. also the suspect's ties to our area. >> the 19-year-old suspect grew up in montgomery county before moving to philadelphia to work at a day-care center. jackie benson in silver spring with more on the arrest. jackie? >> reporter: the sole person under arrest for what its one of the most heinous crimes in recent memory in philadelphia, lived in the silver spring area until a year ago. montgomery county public schools officials confirm 19-year-old, graduated from spring brooke high school. police in philadelphia believe she is the woman seen here in black muslim robes and face covering taking a 5-year-old girl from her school. the little girl's family, the woman claimed to be the child's mother. the 5-year-old was taken to a nearby home and subjected to an ordeal of rape and psychological intimidation before being left freezing and half-dressed in a park. >> we never suspect anything of this magnitude. >> this goes beyond reckless. >> investigators say, the girl, seen here leaving the

most well known survivalists in fact areas featured on the cover of philadelphia weekly in two thousand and nine thank you so much for joining me for nando. my pleasure so i want to talk about what happened to you walk me through the events of that day they already knew who i was before i got there i said hey fellows what's going on they pointed out i was over the line i said ok you give me and they said let's see your id it's and i handed my id they demanded to search my vehicle i informed them that that was unconstitutional against my principle unconstitutional against my principles and i refuse they said when we get a dog to alert we will issue a warrant we'll get a warrant issued and we'll search. a. had an explosive stalled in camden county new jersey not a drug dog an explosives dog. come out i said i want to be present for the search because often times are false cues cues given to the dogs to give false alerts but i was sequestered i was held without warrant for eight hours when they finally got a warrant i offered them my key and said don't do any damage they used a robot with

most well known survivalists in fact areas featured on the cover of philadelphia weekly in two thousand and nine thank you so much for joining me fernando. my pleasure so i want to talk about what happened to you walk me through the events of that day they already knew who i was before i got there i said hey fellows what's going on they pointed out i was over the line i said ok you give me and they said let's see your id it's and i handed my id they demanded to search my vehicle i informed them that that was unconstitutional against my principle unconstitutional against my principles and i refuse they said when we get a dog to alert we will issue a warrant we'll get a warrant issued and we'll search. a. had an explosive stalled in camden county new jersey not a drug dog an explosives dog. come out i said i want to be present for the search because oftentimes are false cues cues given to the dogs to give false alerts but i was sequestered i was held without warrant for eight hours when they finally got a warrant i offered them my key and said don't do any damage they used a robot with a

. >>> new information on a bizarre and disturbing kidnapping and rape case in philadelphia. wusa9 has learned the alleged kidnapper is a 19-year-old former women's track athlete from springfield high school right here in montgomery county. christine rigusters is charged with disguising herself in traditional muslim robes to snatch a 5-year-old girl from a philadelphia school. our scott broom is in white oak, maryland, tonight. >> reporter: christine rigusters is a 2011 graduate of spring brook high school who made her mark here on the track team but who was accused in court in philadelphia today of a horrible crime. among the charges against rigusters is kidnapping and child rape after she was questioned thursday about a disturbing january 14th incident targeting a 5-year-old elementary school girl. rigusters described by police as a daycare worker is accused of dressing in a traditional muslim costume to pose as the victim's mother in order to check the child out of a philadelphia elementary school. 18 hours later the little girl was found abandoned in a park. she'd been se

we're conditions like in philadelphia.general washington would've been very interested about that condition throughout the time and martha would be part of that conversation. talking to ladies from philadelphia, which she very greatly enjoyed. we know that she also went to several worship services. we know that on may 5 there is a wonderful celebration celebrating the french alliance. martha washington is bare and perceived in the center of a large tent. with thousands of people, officers, and thousands of them are entertained. they served refreshments. those are some of the things that martha did here at valley forge. >> host: we are back talking about martha washington with patricia brady and richard norton smith. we have a tweet from jennifer. she talked about the time that martha spent with her husband on the phone -- front line. 2500 soldiers died in that encampment up winter. >> guest: yes, one of the things that fostered an emotional bond between mrs. washington and what would be the american people was the percepti

a period of snow for philadelphia to new york city. about 24 hours from now. so let me show you a closer view here. the rainy weather exiting the southeast coastline. the storm itself, again, it's a very weak storm. now located near memphis and headed for nashville. cold rain on the north side of it. maybe just cold in areas like louisville today to get a sloshy inch, maybe on the grassy surfaces. you have to get a rain and snow mix. the computers are not impressed with the storm. the northern edge of it late tonight from midnight to 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. will get a little coating here, an inch to three inches from philadelphia to new york city and long island and coastal areas of rhode island and on cape cod. otherwise today, i don't think the airports will be too bad this morning. this afternoon we'll see some of the rain moving into d.c. and then late today into new york city. tomorrow, minor travel impact. again, i think tomorrow morning, new york city to philadelphia, there will be slippery roads. >> all right. thanks so much, bill. >>> straight ahead, no pow

that's the same with milwaukee and you think the boys are though philadelphia the way scouts know you know the boy scouts are providing a service that the cities and a lot of jurisdictions value they don't have the resources to duplicate that one studies they audit over exam and i just an emanation doesn't come into play so why would it be i mean that's what a nation the courts have not ruled that way actually there are still there is a government body has evolved philadelphia lost in jersey lost san francisco lost that's actually not the case ok so let's let's assume for a moment that your argument legally is right is a morally wrong it is not morally wrong for an organization to decide who it wants to have its members it's a question of it will i join a group or will you join a group if you don't approve of the membership requirements that they have that but we absolutely shouldn't have it's for other groups been forced to do this thanks for having thanks thanks for your perspective will be back. in about as the rest of the news just when you thought the right to war on women was ov

a couple inches in new york and philadelphia, maybe four inches. it's not just the snow. there will be rough surf along the waterways. hurricane force winds possible, along the coast lines. that's not out of the question. temperatures are little milder here. a little moisture building back in. the jackpot for some folks up to new england up to 3 feet of snow. for us, not looking like a major deal. we could have a little snowfall this evening. we could get hit with a little moisture later tonight. maybe a couple snow flurries tomorrow. gusty wind this weekend. 39 degrees on saturday. if warming on sunday with sunshine and a bill rain by early next week. we could see some snowflakes this evening. >> if you can last night's episode of abc show "scandal"," you know how captivating the story lines are, but many women are raving about olivia pope's wardrobe. she is smart, strong, powerful. she strikes the right balance between trend and style. >> she's inspirational because we see how we can be taken very seriously and not look frumpy or old. >> heather from saks fifth avenue s

. >>> this morning, police in philadelphia say a woman who lived in our area until a year ago abducted and assaulted a 5-year-old girl. the day care worker is accused of taking the girl from her school. police say that was just the beginning. news 4's jackie benson has details of this little girl's disturbing ordeal. >> reporter: montgomery county public school officials confirm 19-year-old christina graduated from the white oak area in 2011. police in philadelphia believe she is the woman seen here in black muslim robes and face covering taking a 5-year-old girl from her elementary school. the little girl was taken to a nearby home and subjected to an unspeakable ordeal of rain and psychological intimidation before being left freezing in a park. >> teenagers do reckless things. we never suspect anything of this magnitude. >> this goes beyond reckless. >> reporter: investigators say the girl, seen here leaving the police station s a match to dna taken from the victim's shirt. in addition to dna evidence, an exotic pet bird is considered key to the case. the child told police she heard

mown dane -- mountain road at philadelphia road. one more on bel air by pass at route 24 to tell you about. if you're headed out on the beltway speeds just slightly below normal. not really because of volume so much but more because of weather. same goes for 95. there's a live look at the topside of the beltway over all looking good with the exception of a few drops on the camera at harford road. now wjz has the stories that people are talking about this morning. >> thank you. >>> a police re cruit remains in grave condition shot by his instructor during a training exercise earlier this week. this morning we learned that instructor accidentally used his real gun instead of switching to a simulation. mike hellgren has been working to find out how this mistake could have happened. here's what he's found. >> an emotional moment as police hold onto each other for strength minutes after an officer is shot in the head during a baltimore city police run training exercise. a sweeping investigation by city and state police aims to get to the

he has worked tirelessly for more than 30 years on behalf of philadelphia residents. is genuine interest and concern for ordinary people than one of the hallmarks of his outstanding career. during the '70s, he spearheaded petition at the city of philadelphia to provide more affordable housing for the poor and face a little support as this it will struggle to find solutions for violent youth gangs. he took a bold step and founded the neighborhood advisory council, snatch, and served as its executive director under his leadership, snack founded a town watch program north so that the committee care coalition and various advocacy programs for youth and senior citizens. he graduated from the philadelphia police academy in 86, joined a couple university police department will also also serving as universities committee liaison, and 94 accepted a position as chief of criminal operation for the office of philadelphia sheriff. in 2000, november he won his election to the pennsylvania house of representatives this are the 197th legislative district. there he introduced an impor

it all will be a rain event for d.c., changing over to snow as it moves into philadelphia and the uppere the snow comes down, the wet roads will make for a slick commute for much of the northeast. especially slippery, as freezing rain falls around new york this morning. rain drenches highways around the california coast. we have snowy mountain passes in california and the northern rockies. >> and if you're flying, airport delays are possible in d.c., new york city, boston, philadelphia, l.a., salt lake city and san francisco. >>> the search for a suspected triple-killer, christopher dorner. police went door-to-door overnight in the big bear ski area east of l.a., after dorner's burned-out truck was discovered nearby. >> they say that dorner is heavily armed, highly trained and bent on revenge against lapd over his firing in 2008. in a rambling manifesto posted online, dorner vowed to bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to the department. >>> in other news, now. a criminal investigation is under way to find out who is responsible for hacking the e-mails of the bush family. the

a little girl in philadelphia kidnapped from her school and raped. a suspect has been arrested. it turns out she has local ties. >> again, this is a woman. 19-year-old graduate from spring book high school in montgomery county. -- spring brook high school in montgomery county. >> reporter: the crime happened last month, but now the arrest of 19-year-old kristina rugustas have her facing charges. the evidence they have on her is damning. >> i'm pleased that we made this progress, but i also want to just be cautiously optimistic that this is over. >> reporter: former dc police chief, now philadelphia's top cop is talking about the rest of 19-year-old kristina regusters. investigators say the surveillance video shows regusters pretending to the child's mother and kidnapping the 5-year-old from her elementary school back in january. after an 18-hour ordeal, the girl was found on a playground. >> she was subjected to a great deal of trauma, yet she was able to be a good witness and help us. >> reporter: the child told investigators she was taken to a house two blocks away from her sc

philadelphia? >> i've got developer's disease.ndication i'm in no danger to anyone but myself. >> the challenge is making people go wow. it's such fun. it keeps me young. >> do you start with a great hotel or the casino? >> only hotel. it's not casino thicks that make people get on a plane to go to a beautiful hotel, go to a spa, shop, eat in wonderful restaurants. slot machines themselves have very little -- they're a commodity. they all look alike. a blackjack table is the same everywhere in the world. >> steve, i heard you put quite a show on in philadelphia yesterday in making your presentation. at one point you callinged atlantic city the enemy. >> that's a little bit of philadelphia humor. this is my 50s anniversary with my class reunion. >> duke. >> duke is mr. rose. >> you know too much, mr. wynn. >> why is philadelphia a good choice for you? >> it's one of the great urban cities, and i have this notion of an urban win. you know, in cities like new york, philadelphia, and boston, there aren't any beautiful new hotels becau

i was reporter and cover that particular event in philadelphia.t amazed me and watching the fire unfold was the fire department trucks arrived on the scene, but then for more than an hour, did not turn on their hoses as the house burned. we were later told the move members had attempted to shoot their way out through the back of the house and the was an exchange of gunfire between police and move members. it took a commission report later on, an independent commission to report that in fact some of the members had been shot to death, killed as they came out of the burning house. i wanted to ask chief stamper, this whole issue of people trapped in these houses and a fire erupting as a result of police action, what the responsibility of the police is at that point when these fires erupt? even though you may have a criminal or summon your involved in a standoff with, your responsibility as a police officer to try to capture these folks alive at possible? >> your number one responsibility is the protection and preservation of human life. and when we e

in philadelphia now, morning commuters came across a bizarre sight. like serious partying went down with this giant keg. fortunately that, wasn't the case. police say a low overpass knocked the steel tank off a truck hauling it to a scrap yard. >>> in wisconsin, one university added sparkle to the college theer cle cheerleading squad. >> i wanted my dream to become true. >> they added eight area kids with disabilities making it the first college in the nation to join what is called the sparkle effect. it's a nationwide program created to give disabled kids a shot at cheerleading. >>> finally, a texas rodeo star has been amazing crowds for over 20 years, check out this little guy. his name is whiplash the cowboy monkey. he is a fan favorite. each time he rides into the arena on his trusty canine. his trainer plans to keep the show going as long as people want to see little whiplash ride. >>> moving now to sports, a big upset in college basketball. number two ranked florida faced unrank arkansas who took the early lead and never let up cruising to an ea

is involved in ok very much involved in let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the fear about in the asian nations towards a resurgent china so just vietnam the philippines and another countries so the u.s. is using this. as a catalyst as a mechanism to stay relevant in the western pacific so as long as these asian countries fear chinese of bullying them the us has a role to play and they can sell weapons. you know and it can stay profitable otherwise it has no role in it was in the pacific so u.s. is really behind this is going to japan towards this confrontation station which i know because the issue was dormant for decades there was no you know no overt conflict until recently japan initiated this so this rather suicide tactic is really instigated by watching the sea believe it

in hong kong we have andrew bloom he is an international an independent china specialist and in philadelphia we crossed and then he is a writer and blogger for counterpunch all right folks cross talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want if i go to our guest in washington d.c. i mean if you were to create a hierarchy of what this dispute is all about what would it be containing china resources the american pivot what's your number one. well the the they just be huge between the the japan and china really started with the grab for resources it has since then evolved into redefining national identity japan sees this as their own territory china has disputed that agreement and it is it is something that both sides simply cannot recall the filing against and we are finding ourselves in a deadlock over who owns what and it is it is a very terse situation that really cannot be rationalized that the stage ok andrew for i can go to you i mean you know i nationalism can be very irrational here but what direction is this going into we've seen it a little bit of the steam blowin

there is another at philadelphia.ound 100 at telegraph, another one. >> a couple of inches of snow in carroll county. i would like to see some pictures of that. please send them in. >> thanks for joining us for 11 news today. >> we will be back with a live update at 7:25. th

and philadelphia love this. it's like rocky and apollo. we're going hit them in the midsection and hit them a lot. from august of 2004 when we did 18 rides, two years later, same month, same force, same fight we were doing 300 raids a month. that's ten a night. now, if you stop and say you ten a night. that's a lot. that's impressive. that means every raid guy on the force is going a raid at least one every night. every pilot is flying one or two raids every night. and these raids are not patrols inspect is not a -- these are going in the door somebody is getting shot. extraordinary. and to do that, though, you can't use previous systems. one you have to be able to bring in the intelligence on the industrial scale. you have to get to the point where instead of the plastic bags of information on target, we would start to exploit their computers, their phones, we would take biomettic data and pumped back to west virginia from the target to see if we had the person before. if we had any dealings with them, we would move the documents back imm

is involved then ok very much involved let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think the u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the fear of other nation asian nations towards a resurgent china such as vietnam the philippines and another countries so the u.s. is using this. as a catalyst as a mechanism to stay relevant in the western pacific so as long as these asian countries fear chinese of bullying them but u.s. has a role to play and they can sell weapons you know and it can stay profitable otherwise it has no role in western pacific so u.s. is really behind this is going to japan towards this confrontation station with china because the issue was dormant for decades there was no you know no overt conflict until recently japan initiated this so this rather suicide tactic is really instigated by washington d.c. i believe it

by the philadelphia police department in one thousand nine hundred six they dropped c four on a row house in west philadelphia and burned sixty five other row houses in the area it was a huge disaster and so we just see the police culture of impunity and recklessness playing out again and again this is just a window into something that people in los angeles and people in our city have to deal with every day and the media with its dereliction of duty is allowing it to essentially continue unchecked absolutely thank you so much for coming on shouting a light we definitely keep asking questions demanding answers max women felt investigative journalist at alter net thanks a lot. the media fixation over disgruntled ex l.a.p.d. officer chris dorner got me thinking about how long foresman police officers or federal agents deal with these types of threats the tactics used against dorner made me instantly think of waco texas in case you're younger viewer and you've never heard of the waco massacre let's take a look back at what happened and february of one thousand nine hundred three u.s. ag

blizzard warnings, winter storm warnings, from philadelphia northward through the region. the storm itself, the worst of it, is mostly going to be in eastern mass. coastal areas of maine from portland to portsmouth all the way down through the boston area, cape cod, providence, newport back down into areas of long island, the storm right now is located pretty far to the south. it's located all the way down here over the outer banks. it has a ways to go. the northern edge of the presip shield is creeping up there to central jersey as rain. here's the snowfall predictions. again, the historical part of the storm is the possibility of this two feet plus of snow from providence to boston right along the 495 and i-95 corridors. that would make ittal all-time top five snow storm, possibly the largest snow storm in boston history which by the way is 27 inches. then we're talking lesser amounts the further west you go. hartford 12 to 18. portland 12 to 18, possibly more, especially south of there. again, the impacts start about noon today. the worst of it is after dinner tonight t

is involved in ok very much involved let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think the u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing those primacy in asia and is also playing off the fear of all in the asian nations towards a resurgent china so just vietnam the philippines and another countries so the u.s. is using this. as a catalyst as a mechanism to stay relevant in the western pacific so as long as these asian countries fear chinese of bullying them the u.s. has a role to play and they can sell weapons. you know and it can stay profitable otherwise it has no role in it was in the pacific so u.s. is really behind this is going to japan towards this confrontation station with china because the issue was dormant for decades there was no you know no overt conflict until recently japan initiated this so this rather suicide tactic is really instigated by watching the sea believe i

is involved then ok very much involved in let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the fear of all in the asian nations towards a resurgent china such as vietnam the philippines and other countries so the u.s. is using this. as a catalyst as a mechanism to stay relevant in the western pacific so as long as these asian countries fear chinese of bullying them but u.s. has a role to play and they can sell weapons. you know and it can stay profitable otherwise it has no role in it was in the pacific so u.s. is really behind this is going to japan towards this confrontation station which are now because the issue was dormant for decades there was no you know no overt conflict until recently japan initiated this so this rather suicide tactic is really instigated by washington d.c. i believe

is involved then ok very much involving let's go to philadelphia what do you think here we got to the pivot real early in this program i'm glad go ahead lynn go ahead well i would respectfully disagree with that assessment because i think u.s. is really behind this dispute the u.s. is playing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing is primacy in asia and is also playing off the feel about in the asian nations towards a resurgent china so just vietnam the philippines and another countries so the u.s. is using this. as a catalyst as a mechanism to stay relevant in the western pacific so as long as these asian countries fear chinese of bullying them but u.s. has a role to play and they can sell weapons you know and it can stay profitable otherwise it has no role in western pacific so u.s. is really behind this is going to japan towards this confrontation station which are now because the issue was dormant for decades there was no you know no over. a conflict until recently japan initiated this so this rather suicide tactic is really instigated by washington d.c. i believe it l