do you live here in portsmouth? >> no, no, i came up here to be with my sister, who is married to larry gray. >> you all told me when we were at martha's. so all the drakes are here. >> i was here about a year and a half ago. like, oh, they are in the 21st-century. >> we are in the 21st century. >> 90. i know. larry's nld be iece? >> thank you so much. >> you are very welcome. thank you. >> university of maryland -- he was -- oh, that's great. when you see him, tell him i said thanks. great to be here. hello. we are playing the six degrees to kevin bacon here. >> he can write prep faster than -- >> i'm sorry, reverend. i called you mister. our -- f >> what is your denomination? do you know reverend carter? that's wonderful. [applause] know i have the special honor of welcoming our special guest here tonight -- now i have a special honor of welcoming our special guest here tonight. i am so glad that martin o'malley is with us. he has worked over the last eight years to expand middle-class opportunity and put maryland

can i just repeat what the vice president has said from portsmouth, new hampshire? vice president called isis, quote, barbarians and said we will follow them to the gates of hell until they're brought to justice because hell is where they'll reside. it is one thing to use that rhetoric. it is another thing to follow anyone to gates of hell with the u.s. justice system or, i dare say, the international justice system. most people who commit atrocities in war don't leave behind a trail of evidence. and it's very hard to prove war crimes. on the other hand, these guys are cataloging it and sending it out to the world. >> that's true, and there is an international criminal court that after a great deal of difficulty is up and functioning and there have been war crimes prosecutions of people who were involved in the former yugoslavia, in the rwandaen genocide in africa, and the u.n. has said, we want to investigate what are obviously war crimes here and there are u.n. investigators actively involved now. it's very difficult to get these cases done. and just to underline

. >> the vice president today at the portsmouth naval shipyard. the president before that in astonia. >>> and as the u.s. decides to go after isis, isis continues to attract and recruit members. just today the u.s. secretary of defense said upwards of a hundred americans are believed to be fighting for isis in the middle east. and tonight in an nbc news exclusive richard engel's been able to find one of those americans. richard's with us tonight from the syrian border in turkey. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. we've reported americans have tried to join isis, but we haven't been able to hear directly from one of them until now. isis militants are brutal killers whose victims include americans. yet there are americans, an unknown number, who are isis recruits including donald morgan. >> my islamic name abdul raheem. >> reporter: what attracted him to isis? >> someone has to defend islam. and somebody has to defend innocent muslims. >> reporter: nbc news interviewed morgan in beirut through a freelance journalist. he didn't

indramatic rescues southeastern virginia -- dozens of children at a day care center in portsmouth had to be carried because of high water, and some of the kids were shaken up, but they are doing fine. one resident says water was waist-deep inside of his unit. business owners and residents say this is becoming a too frequent occurrence. >> capitals fans, are you ready? it is almost time to start rocking the red. they start building the ice surface today and they are hosting an open house tonight from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. where you can check out tickets and purchase season tickets. >> to the other red, white, and blue team, the nationals are inching closer to the nl east title. adam laroche kept his hitting stretch with two hits and r.b.i.'s. i read that if they win 10 games the rest of the month, they have clinched it. 10 is the magic number. >> i will take your word for it. [laughter] if you say so. like even if i am wrong, 10 is still -- >> even if i am wrong, tennis the good. >> the weather will be better. there.till gray out we will get some sunshine and there is no rain. >> t

dozens of children at a day care center in portsmouth had to be ferried out on boats because of the high water. some of the kids were a little bit shaken. however, all of them are just fine tonight. also evacuated a nearby apartment complex. one resident says the water was waist deep inside his apartment. >> that is going to be a mess. >> what about around here? >> some changes are on the way. more sunshine tomorrow. heat and humidity back for one day and then some bigger changes for the upcoming weekend. it is going to be pretty nice. our temperature outside, 75 degrees at reagan national airport. dew point levels are comfortable. earlier today, we went up to 79 degrees at the airport. the average is 82. no rain to speak of. weatherbug network, 68 degrees in gaithersburg, 73 the high earlier today. 69 at children's hospital. our final stop, alexandria. the winds have really settled down. temperatures in the 60's off to the west of us. lower 70's closer to the district. most of us will see overnight lows in the 60's. tomorrow, nice warm up. the heat and humidity begins to build south and

. >> do you live in portsmouth? >> i live in new hampshire. >> a couple of casual talking. >> the maryland connection. >> he had a construction company in baltimore. >> it has developed a lot. >> he and i stuck it together. >> what do you do? >> insurance broker. >> that's what my grandfather did. >> thanks for coming here tonight. >> i hope to see you back here. >> thanks a lot. thank you. >> this is my husband allen. as you well know behind behind every state's person dares espouse that puts up with a lot. >> thank you for backing her up. it's the hardest on spouses. you see people taking swings at us and it's harder. >> i have got some bones to pick with the local newspaper. >> a member of the house. >> absolutely. she's a pretty courageous woman. >> you know you are in brush country. >> she abandoned us. >> she kept telling me she was very connected. >> she's wonderful. >> do you know wendy? her brother ran a great race and also a courageous public servant. he's going to be our new attorney general. he won the p

you have a part of this area portsmouth? >> my district starts literally just south of portsmouth in a castle just south of here all the way down to massachusetts. maggie represented a part of the southern part and margaret have the northern part. >> good luck to you. thanks for letting him run. it's not easy to be a spouse. >> she has made the third-highest number of calls. >> for the state senator. >> she's my ace in the hole. >> my wife did that for me until she became a judge. have a safe trip back. we will see you again. thanks for all your good work in for letting him do that. >> with governor rick perry stepping down at the end of ears and open seat in texas. state senator wendy davis the democratic nominee and republican greg abbott texas attorney general and joining us from austin is wayne slater following the race as senior political writer for the "dallas morning news." thanks very much for being with us. >> great to be with you. >> what did the polls tell you the raise? >> the polls are all over the place except

lots of flooding in the portsmouth area. there's the storm starting to pull off shore. we have this persistent east, northeast flow. we have this moisture off the atlantic. lots of clouds around but not much showing up on doppler. a stray sprinkle here and there. areas of drizzle. patchy light rain from frederick down through leesburg and especially as you head toward the blue ridge, purcelville, berryville. temperatures are still in the mid- to upper 60s. win chester is only 64. national is up to 76. i don't think we'll get too much warmer today than what we are now. so i'll be back in a few minutes. i've got two more rain chances before the week is out. i'll tell you about that next or next time i see you, that is. michael? >> see you in a little bit. thank you, howard. >>> you might want to check your bank account. if you used a credit or credit card at home pee dough within -- home depot within the last four months. its payment data systems has been breached. the good news is home depot believes there's no evidence that personal identification numbers or pins were c

a report from mid together i don't, the mount nance area is portsmouth with weekend walkers. >> when the mount record to life, it caught people by surprise. the eruption happened at one of the busiest times on the mountain with hundreds of climbers enjoying a clear autumn day. >> the group coming out for a while, i heard the pounding of thunder and some climbers started descending. they were covered with ash, covered when white. i thought this must be really serious. he wrelzed he and this his group were in trouble. they referralsed debris rained down on them. some were trapped on the mountain overnight. i am so relieved. i couldn't sleep all night. >> among the rescue workers are defense personnel who were ordered to the scene by japan's prime minister. they are being met by a mountain still spewing ash. the immediate area surrounding the volcano is closed. so far, nearby towns haven't been evacuated. it is 110 active volcanoes and one of 47 under 24 hour surveillance. the last time the volcano had a major eruption was in 1979. there was an increase in volcanic earth quakes earlier

as wayne hay reports near tokyo, the mountainous area is portsmouth with weekend walkers. it caught people by surprise. it happened at one of the busiest times on the mountains with hundreds of climbers en jewing a clear autumn day. >> for a while, i heard the pounding of numbthunder a numbe times. soon after, climbers started descending. they were covered with ash, covered in white and i thought to myself, this must be really serious. >> one hiker managed to capture the eruption on camera but he quickly realized he and his group were in trouble. just seconds later, they were informed by the ash cloud as debris rained down on them. it's one of the most popular climbing destinations in japan, and some were trapped on the mountain overnight. >> i am so relieved. i couldn't sleep. >> the rescue workers, a defense personnel who were ordered by prime minister. they are being met by a mountain still spewing ash. the immediate area surrounding the volcano is closed. but so far, nearby towns haven't been evacuated. mount ontaki is more than 110 active volcanoes in japan and one of

congress soon appropriated $870,000 to build 13 frigates with construction commencing from portsmouth to baltimore. funding was locally short when an epidemic of inflation later set in. congress found itself appropriating $1 million just to refit and repair one frigate. these were drafted by shipwrights like the hackett brothers and joshua humphreys, a philadelphia quaker who was disowned for his military efforts. these men came up with handsome designs and intuitive methods of construction, but to judge the ships' progress, one need not look to receipts for the delivery of timber, iron, rope, and canvas. check the weight book injuries for rum. one truncheon delivered on a monday and not reordered for a week men that work was slow. for delivered on a monday followed by four more on wednesday -- that meant there was progress. once at sea, the frigates were beautiful to behold in the nba of european experts who beheld them as they approach the ofbors -- and the envy european experts. naval seamen were offered a whopping eight dollars a month to sign the muster rolls. landsman received m

that clip you just showed of joe in portsmouth, new hampshire. you have to realize he's within a 45-minute drive of the parents of jim foley who was executeded two weeks ago. joe was unafraid to express out loud the horror most americans feel about these executions and about what might be on the horizon. everybody uses the phrase war-weary. you used war-wary and we ought to remember, all of us, ought to remember with all of the talk, all of the op-eds, all of the radio conservative right wing talk, all of the tweets that 50 years ago this summer, chris, the gulf of tonkin resolution was passed. 11, 12 years later there were 58,000 names on a wall in washington, d.c. we are going to get isis. we're going to clean their clock. but let's pump the brakes and do it the correct way with a bunch of other nations in a coalition. >> here is the question i brought to you about the visceral reaction i felt during the hostage crisis. i hated every day. i loved the job. i'd go to a bar and people were mad at me. our guys were being trooped around. they weren'

d a haf >> guest: portsmouth virginia, which is about 3.5 hours southere? of here. c-span: how long have you lived there?h e >> guest: welcome i lived there for a couple of years. in th and my stepfather was in the navy. and we were there for a couple ey of years and then we lived instep-fat toronto and key westhe florida. when my stepfather got ready to retire from the navy we moved old en. back and i guess i was aboute nine years old. and so we lived there from thee t time i was nine years old and my parents still live there.n? c-span: what are you doing right now i'm at. >> guest: i am a reporter for "the washington post."n leve i was allowed to write that book.ook so right now i'm on the book to le, her. and c-span: let's talk about a ho couple things in your life and then we will go to them in great depth. how many different jobs have you had? the >> i guess i would have to count the jobs in my career as a journalist. my first job was the hometown newspaper. i got that job right out ofe. college and my second job was at the atlanta journal anjodtsi constitution

who is running for senate in new hampshire got a unhelpful introduction at a rally yesterday in portsmouthe ton of former new hampshire governor sununu was describing an encounter when his story look a turn for the weird. >> someone came up and said, i'd love to meet scott. i always thought he was kind of a phony from massachusetts. and i said, you got to sit down with him. because he sat down, they had their conversation, he walked away. you know what he said? he goes, that guy, he's a phony from new hampshire, that just happened to live in massachusetts for a while. >> it's not clear why he thought that was going to help. >> next up, private moments with the president. take a look at this. that's the president saying farewell to a departing member of the secret service. to the left there, you can see the agent's son appears to be taking a head first dive into the oval office couch. here's how it was described. back flip from the desk. didn't stick the landing. that might be the most action a white house couch has seen since jimmy carter slept on one 34 years ago. finally, arnold schwarze

and in portsmouth, new hampshire, today, vice president joe biden vowed to pursue the killers to thees of hell. meanwhile, the israeli government confirmed sotloff was also an israeli citizen. and a former islamic state captive who'd befriended sotloff told an israeli newspaper that the journalist managed to hide his judaism from the militants. filmmaker matthew van dyke knew both sotloff and foley. he says they considered it vital to tell the story of syria's civil war despite the obvious danger. they were both journalists that were careful. they took precautions and unfortunately even if you do everything right, sometimes in syria things go wrong. >> woodruff: the state department has said a few americans are still being held by islamic state fighters in syria, including a 26-year-old woman who'd been doing aid work. the sotloff family issued a statement through a spokesman outside their home in pine crest, florida. >> steve often said his job was to hold people's hands, to build rapport before delving into the story. he never rushed or was pressured. he was appreciated by all who

. >> in portsmouth, another woman was found murdered in her apartment. >> welcome.e excitement. >> it's great to be here. you guys, i watch you every morning while i'm doing my exercise. i'm usually in my underwear but you don't see me. >> nice that you put on pants. >> not everybody does. >> when we look into the camera, we're going to see you in the underwear. >> sort of like "rom per room" with the mack magic mere. >> thank you for watching. perhaps we'll give you ideas for some futuristic norchl. >> i'm just starstruck to be here. >> dennis rader, this sort of real life -- >> he was the prototype for the guy in my story and he murdered ten people. two of them were children. and he had a long marriage, two kids of his own. and his wife said after he was caught that she never knew. she never had a clue of what he was doing and this secret life that he had. and so i started to think, i wonder how many of us are sleeping with strangers and what we really know about the people that we think we're close to. so this story came out of it. i wanted to follow it. >> and w

i think they're going to find it open more shops in places like portsmouth. >> can you quantify thatdo you spend every year investing in new stores and refurbishing your stores? what that would mean in material terms. >> we are spending currently between 15 million and 20 million pounds a year. >> you think people of that post a yes vote would go south of the border? >> just about all of that. until you can see what the shape a different country's economy is going to be like, especially if it is more expensive to trade there already. training in at foreign country. it is more difficult to trade in southern ireland and it is -- than it is in the rest of the british isles. it would be sensible to hold off putting any more investment in. terms of your banking arrangements, are the bulk of your banking arrangements south of the border? what kind of exposure would you have north of the border? >> all our banking is south of the border. nothing would change as that is concerned. overall, is not what is going to happen to the scottish economy. it is what the effect of an independent scotlan

[applause] martha: vice president joe biden all fired up at the portsmouth naval shipyard in new hampshiretion against isis after the savage slaughter of a second american journalist. he sounded a lot more passionate, many said, than president obama did when he addressed the situation in estonia yesterday. watch this. >> we will not be intimidated. their horrific acts only unite us as a country and stiffen our resolve to take the fight against these terrorists. and those who make the mistake of harming americans will learn that we will not forget and that our reach is long and that justice will be served. martha: so there you have it. lars larson is syndicated radio host for compass media networks, attorney general jessica ehrlich is a former democratic congressional candidate. welcome to both of you. there's, obviously, a very stunning difference in the demeanor of the two men when they talk about this. jessica? >> a difference between being commander in chief and being vice president, with the difference between the locations they were in. you know, the vice president was at, you know, t

tomorrow in portsmouth, virginia, a container ship is returning to the commonwealth of virginia. it's a merchant marine ship with merchant rings and dod personnel and its bishop that it's been in the mediterranean involved in the complete destruction of the declared syrian chemical weapons stockpile. that's a good tuesday tomorrow. i think it is something that we ought to contemplate as we are thinking about u.s. power, that there was a diplomatic breakthrough that led to the destruction of one of the largest chemical weapons stockpiles in the world. the u.s. played a critical role in this committee played a critical role. a diplomatic breakthrough a factor into was the willingness to use military force. diplomacy is important ar. often you get a much better result if you are willing to use military force to some enter the what happened less you at the present step away from the red line. know, there was a bread line. will take action if he used chemical weapons. we were prepared to take no to action. had we taken military action, the best we're going to get from the mission as d

joe biden made a visit yesterday to portsmouth naval shipyard, fueling speculation about running for we want to look at the history of things. here to weigh in is presidential historian jane hampton cook. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so what about the vice president there at the shipyard yesterday got your antenna up? >> the fact that he's going to new hampshire. he's been to iowa. those are places that you go if you're maybe hinting and signaling that you might just throw your hat in the race for president because of the primary and caucus states that they are. >> sure. plus, you told one of our producers any time there is a sitting vice president who is considering it, he's automatically a serious candidate, right? >> right. joe biden is a heartbeat away from being president right now. you have to take the current vice president seriously when it comes to the next election. historically, we've seen both parties put forward their vice president for the next election cycle. >> okay. i want to play another sound bite for you and for everybody watching right now. here now j

vice president joe biden's visit to portsmouth naval shipyard fueling speculation that he could run forocratic strategist chuck roker. good morning to you. >> hey, steve. >> he is the vice president of the united states. but historically, vice presidents have trouble winning. you tell us why joe biden could get the job. >> there is nobody more experienced in this town who is more qualified than joe biden. that's be obvious about that. he worked at every level of government. what you constantly hear about joe biden is his age. and that he's too old and hillary clinton is going to be the person. i'd like to remind people the story of the old bull. i grew up in rural east texas and we had an old bull named jody. every year my grand daddy would bring a young bull into the pen to take care of the cows. the next spring when all the calfs were born, they looked like jody. don't understim the old bull. they're kind of cunning sometimes. >> you say everybody talks about his age. you know what? i hear people talk about joe biden and all the crazy stuff he says. i don't have to remind you, but for

. >> we're talking about portsmouth, virginia, 35 children, some employees of a day care center had torescued by boat. through a parking lot. look at the rain and an apartment complex across the street saw the water rice up to about mid level right in a few minutes. here's the concern. still raining even in an area right now, so the flooding concerns still remains with them even this morning. now we're seeing the system kind of elongate and stretch into the northeast. don't worry, in the northeast not looking for much more than light scattered showers today. but another system is brewing out there. this is a major system that will bring severe weather. heavy amounts of rain into the midwest today, eventually spreading into the ohio river valley, look at the threat, including an isolated threat for tornadoes today, but then 42 million people by tomorrow will see this threat, look at this. detroit, cleveland, st. louis, indianapolis, think this sounds like a major hub for the airlines? yes. not a good day for travel. the warm and cold air, making its way in, a clash. you're on the roller