raven brooks, karen colbern, we would not be here without you.] we would not be here without our volunteers. we would not be here without the guiding spirit of our founder. [applause] or with folks who have been here since the beginning. we are in the presence of so many heroes here tonight. jane hampshire, slinker wink, we are humbled by your leadership in the fight to give health care to all americans which is their moral right. [applause] to our team behind netroots for the troops, what you guys do every year is astounding and what you guys do for the troops is heroic. [applause] we are honored by your leadership in the fight against torture. and for carl singer, raising more than $65,000 for the obama campaign from small donors. he was a leading advocate online and he is only 15 years old. those last two speakers would not be here but for your support for a scholarship program. thank you so much for bringing them and so many great activists here for this event. [applause] speaking of heroes, we lost a great one this week. her loss must be ack

host: raven brooks, a native of san francisco, a is an executive in netroots.a reminder, we will introduce you to a number of authors with their newly-released books. you can always get schedule information by logging onto our website, c-span.org. you can upload your video from comments you may have or scenes that you capture at the town hall meetings that continued this month on the health care. thank you for being with us on this friday morning. we're back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. and have a great weekend. hos[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> progress of bloggers from across the country are beating in the pittsburgh for the netroots meeting this weekend. pennsylvania senator arlen specter and u.s. representative joe sestack take part. we are also covering making political change in impacting the supreme court. president barack obama had to montana today for a town hall meeting on his health-care plan. the rally is planned in the conservative suburb -- suburb -- belgrade. you can se

raven brooks, karen colbern, we would not be here without you. [applause] we would not be here without our volunteers. we would not be here without the guiding spirit of our founder. [applause] or with folks who have been here since the beginning. we are in the presence of so many heroes here tonight. jane hampshire, slinker wink, we are humbled by your leadership in the fight to give health care to all americans which is their moral right. [applause] to our team behind netroots for the troops, what you guys do every year is astounding and what you guys do for the troops is heroic. [applause] we are honored by your leadership in the fight against torture. and for carl singer, raising more than $65,000 for the obama campaign from small donors. he was a leading advocate online and he is only 15 years old. those last two speakers would not be here but for your support for a scholarship program. thank you so much for bringing them and so many great activists here for this event. [applause] speaking of heroes, we lost a great one this week. her loss m

host: raven brooks is the executive director of netroots nation.est: we have seven panels and 20 training sessions. we've heard from bill clinton last night. we will hear from governor howard dean. and senator specter. we have a bunch of on-line activists that are connecting with us and helping us plan for how we're going to get their priorities host: passed in: this passed. host: this began as the yearlykos convention. caller: we decided we wanted to have a chance to meet the persons we had been talking with on line. it became something a lot bigger. we had a big convention with a lot of panels and our elected leaders wanted to come out to it. in 2007 we changed the name to netroots nation. we were bigger than one web community. netroots is something composed of a lot of different communities on line. composed of people that primarily are on twitter and facebook or people that use online organizing techniques to organize their community around some kind of issue. host: you are meeting at the the david lawrence convention center in pittsburgh. . pi

host: raven brooks is the executive director of netroots nation. guest: we have seven panels and 20 training sessions. we've heard from bill clinton last night. we will hear from governor howard dean. and senator specter. we have a bunch of on-line activists that are connecting with us and helping us plan for how we're going to get their priorities host: passed in: this passed. host: this began as the yearlykos convention. caller: we decided we wanted to have a chance to meet the persons we had been talking with on line. it became something a lot bigger. we had a big convention with a

my name is raven brooks. i really glad to have everybody here tonight. wanted to talk about -- netroots nation has a rich tradition of alpine -- amplifying the voices. you made it happen and got the speakers here. there's a rich tradition with doing this with elected leaders. our speaker on saturday night is a great example of that. she was identified as being a leader that was worth following. that percolated up to the national level, and now she took two runs at elected office and now is leading the charge with progressive policy in congress. we are starting a new program at this convention called making progress. each year, we will pick a few more people to bring out and amplify their voice, let you get to know them and learn about what they are doing and let them engage you. we are going to be doing this year round. the first one i would like to bring up is somebody who is one of us. judd legum started the blog that is recognized as more of the premier policy blogs on the internet. he is now lawyer and is running for the maryland house of delegates.

thank you, raven brooks, representative miller for that great talk. i was backstage listening. it is funny when he said 47% of the north carolina republicans do not think president obama was born in america i am glad it is that low. [laughter] thank you for being here, mayor. i just had a visit with the allegheny county executive and i thank him for giving us a convention center that is actually a leed-rated building so you could meet in a place that is doing the right thing. [applause] i apologize for my voice. i have been on too many airplanes for the last few days. [cheers and applause] first, i would like to thank you for what you do and the contribution you have made to dramatically elevating the level of our public discourse and the base level of knowledge of people who participate in reading all of the things that you put out through the netroots nation. i keep a file with me on economics and a file on energy. i was looking through it the other day and i was stunned of the percentage of articles that i printed out and the cat that came from web sites as opposed to newspa

raven. we'll tell you who and why, straight ahead. >> i'm brooke hart in washington. liberal democrats in the senate say they might have a new strategy when it comes to healthcare reform. that story coming up. >> and i'm sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. an accident on i-95, we'll update that location and check on two city accidents as well. dad, could you help me build a sand castle? sure, pal. let's just find a good spot. [ dramatic music plays ] a big day at the beach with the legendary taste of dunkin' donuts coffee on ice. this looks like a good spot. you kin' do it. america runs on dunkin'. treat yourself today with an authentic caramel swirl iced latte.

ravens october 18, in the metrodome. jeff, back to you. go to chevy.com for details. . >> a brook lan man's cell phone sparks more than conversation. every time his phone rings his oven turns on. he made the discovery last week when the phone was on the counter near the stove and it rang. for now, he has shut off power to the stove just to be safe. and we are told he is a lousy cook so no loss. >> scattered storms and sunny weekend in the future? what do you say? >> seeing sun. 92 wednesday. 90 thursday. 90 friday. hot and muggy and then back into the 80s saturday, sunday, clearing up by next week. so better conditions there. watch hurricane bill. category 3 storm at this time. jeff? >> that happened about what 15 minutes ago? unbelievable. all right. thanks, vytas. >> that does it for the "late edition". thank you for joining us. i am jeff barnd, see you tomorrow night. real time closed captioning provided by u.s. captioning