i was governor of rhode island during some of the worst economic times. high unemployment, people losing their homes to foreclosure, and i had to turn around -- turn it around as governor. during my time as governor, rhode island had the biggest drop of unemployment, over my time and budget as governor, of all but 5 states. i invested in education, invested in k to 12, and higher education institutions, roads and bridges, workforce development programs. it was not easy, but i took a valuable tax dollars and made them work to most of benefit rhode island, and we had the biggest drop of unemployment during my budget in any but five states. we passed marriage equality. i thought it was important for gay people who love each other to get married, but also i thought it was important for the economy. this is a fact. and economies will prosper when you have a tolerant society. look at all of the thriving economies around the united states. cambridge, boston, austin. they are all tolerant and welcome everyone. the economy will do well. the immigration dream act,

roshambo's forces had returned to rhode island. the general went back to france in 1783. the details are fuzzy or with -- fuzzier with dillon. that is my presentation. i would love to take any questions that you have and see if i can provide the answers. afterwards, you are more than welcome to come up and take a look at these wonderful items. yes. >> by caribbean, do we mean -- rachel: yes. >> they got to newport in 1780. do you happen to know whether there was much american privateering out of that port when the english left? rachel: not to my knowledge, but i am not positive. yes. >> you have english translations of both works? rachel: we are working on it for both of those. we are incredibly lucky to have the manuscript. we do have french transcriptions for them right now. we are slowly working our way on getting translations. >> rachel is the translator. >> i believe the general was in distinct's -- distang's fleet. i believe i included him in my book. i didn't make the connection until now. rachel: the one missing the r was dillon actually. it's very difficult to tr

suburban rhode island.red to be an unsolved crime that local police are still investigating. stick a pin in that for a moment. there is some exclusive video that we have obtained here at msnbc. it shows an fbi raid in progress. it's dramatic piece of tape involves fbi agents storming into a house at dawn with their guns drawn. the fbi showed up to make an arrest. an intense piece of tape that has not been previously released. it all centers though around one of the republican candidates for president this year. it involves republican senator rand paul of kentucky. more specifically, it involves people who have surrounded rand paul for years. when he decided to jump into politics, he inherited an entire political infrastructure from his father. ron paul had been in national politics for decades, an a perennial protest candidate for president on the republican side. during those campaigns he built up not just a crew of supporters but a crew of political operatives which when rand became a politician, rand inh

senator, representing rhode island and was most recently rhode island governor. he just left office in january. please join me in welcoming to the register soapbox lincoln chafee. r.mr. chafee: in 2016, we will have a new president. in november 2016 are going to make a very important choice in -- and how are going to make that choice? i would like to think that you look at past performance. that is very important. second, you look at the character of the people running. that they have courage, ethical standards. third, what is their vision for the future. what do they want to do with our great country and future generations? let me go back a bit. first of all, being in iowa, it is important to say i was a high school and college wrestling. the cyclones and the hawkeyes are some of the best wrestlers ever. it is good to be here. , i wasgot into politics a councilman for four years and a mayor for seven years. so i know what it is like to have to plow the snow, pick up the trash, make sure the ballfields are in great shape. make sure the schools are good. and keep

we also passed energy quality in rhode island. i thought that was important -- marriage equality in rhode island. is what we wanted of course, but i thought it was important for the economy. economies are going to prosper when you have a tolerant society. just look at all the thriving economies around the united states. whether it is in cambridge, boston, austin, palo alto. they welcome everybody. the economy is going to do well. i also passed the immigration dream act in-state tuition for youngsters that are undocumented that want to go to our state colleges. they don't have to pay out-of-state tuition's. big, big difference. we got that passed. also was governor romney had the obamacare, affordable care act rollout, rhode island was one of the national leaders in the number of people to sign up for obamacare. it did not just we knewwe work hard. this was good to be a difficult process of getting people to sign up for exchange and we made it happen. one of the best rollouts in the country. not only as governor getting people back

he says that dimitri kesari was in rhode island during that weekend. police chief says his department has been cooperating with federal authorities and investigators have traveled to virginia to try to interview kesari, but so far they have been unable to. we spoke with an attorney who said that his client has not been charged in this burglary case. police officials have been in touch but that dimitri kesari has not been charged with anything. but that laptop with political work linked to the ron paul campaign was stolen, that burglary investigation could at least in part explain why police raided kesari's home with such a show of force. we asked the fbi whether that burglary case in rhode island led to this response that you see on this video. they would not say directly, but they told us, quote, the fbi assesses each individual independently when determining thousand effect an arrest. the scandal for ron paul for president campaign in 2012, the scandal involving an alleged bribe to an iowa senator, this has already led to the indictments of two offic

senator representing rhode island and most recently was rhode island's governor. he just left in august of january this year. in welcomingg me lincoln chafee. mr. chaffee: good morning. in 2016 the united states of america is going to have a new president. we all know that president barack obama is term limited and we will have a new president. all-americans in november of 2016 are making a very important choice. how are going to make that choice? i would like to think that first of all you look at past performance, your past record. second of all, you look at the character people who are running. do they have courage? are they honest? third, what is the vision for the future? what does that individual want to do with our great country for the future generations. let me go back a little bit and record. first of all, being in iowa i think it is important to say i was a high school and college wrestler. the cyclones in the hawkeyes are some of the best wrestlers ever. it is good to be here. i wrestled all through college. when i got into politics i started at the lo

except he got elected governor of rhode island as an independent.ing his time as governor, lincoln chafee then switched parties again and he did become a democrat in 2013. now two years after that, he is running for the democratic nomination for president of the united states. lincoln chafee's political path to this moment has been not just unpredictable, it's honestly been a little weird. but weird is good. americans like weird. nonetheless, mr. chafee now occupies, let's call it a deep second tier on the republican side, maybe a third tier, if there is room for one. he's there alongside former maryland governor martin o'malley. if lincoln chafee's path has been long and winding, martin o'malley's has been straight as an arrow. in 1999 as the young telegenic mayor of baltimore, maryland, almost immediately he started getting future of the democratic party sort of attention. before he had even been on the job as mayor for a year. >> in baltimore, there's a bold, brash new beat. ♪ believe it or not this hunk with the bulging biceps, part rock star, p

rhode island representative jim langevin is the cochair of the congressional cybersecurity caucus. representative sub or what is the purpose of this caucus? >> guest: like in a caucus a group of like minded persons concerned about an issue and we collaborate together but we also provide a forum to both groups on the hill to come in and do presentations to educate members and staff about a particular topic based on cybersecurity sorts of great for members and staff to collaborate. >> host: this is an issue have worked on for quite a while. how did she get interested in this? >> guest: i fell into this in

some in connecticut and rhode island are going out of business ending a centuries old way of life. scientists say one of the biggest reasons is that the ocean is getting warmer. the lobster population, however, climbing in the cold waters off maine. >>> the ice budget challenge pays off with a breakthrough and is now making a comeback. more than 17 million people rose to the challenge last year getting soaked for charity. the viral campaign raised more than $220 million to fight als and some of that money helped researchers better understand a protein in the brain that is dysfunctional in nearly all als cases.

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: i would like to start my remarks with this photograph, which is a photograph of the i guess mine knee--mine mini-planet, i guess they call it now pluto. why do i start my remarks with pluto? i do so because of the major achievement it was for our nasa scientists to fly a craft close enough to pluto to take that picture. that's a heck of an accomplishment by our american nasa scientists. it is not their only one. while this craft was shooting by pluto taking these pictures, they had a rover rolling around on the surface of mars. they sent a vehicle the size of an s.u.v. to the surface of mars and are driving it around. do you think these scientists know what they're talking about when they say something as simple as climate change is real? of course they do. but our republican friends can't acknowledge that. they've even said that these nasa scientists are in on a hoax. can you imagine anything more demeaning to the people who put a rover on mars and shot this picture of pl

. >> rhode island governor lincoln chafee coming under fire after refusing to call the tree in the rhode> jon: he insists people call it the devil's pine! (laughter) satan's spruce! a tree bortion. (laughter) it's fox's war on christmas! it's back, baby. and this year's designated krooj, rhode island governor and part time steve doocy impersonator... (laughter). lincoln chafee. a couple of weeks ago chafee had the audacity to invite americans to a "tree lighting." or judging by the reaction a jesus tipping. >> it's a christmas tree. keep christ in christmas. >> for folks who are watching right now and thinking that's cray shirks i should call the governor. we've got his phone number. >> it has lights and ornaments and a decoration on top, it's a christmas tree. >> for the past eight years before this governor, your former governor in fact did call it a christmas tree, right? >> he did, gretchen. >> jon: yes, and while that's not true... (laughter). who cares? it makes them angry. see, the previous republican governor's 2009 invitation to this very same ceremony also uses the offending ph

brian: we have some video from wpri in rhode island. set this up. but i want people to see the look on mrs. clinton's face when you walk up to her. what did you do leading up to this? kurt: she was there for a book signing for her book that came out last year. my father waited out overnight and i joined him in the morning. we went up. he was actually the very first person in line and i joined him. i showed her -- are we waiting to reveal that? brian: we'll wait to reveal that. why does your dad do all this? how often has he stood in line for one of these things for you? kurt: twice. once in april of 2005 when former president bill clinton came to providence. he waited out overnight on a cold street outside a bookstore. he waited out again when former secretary clinton. brian: why does he do it? kurt: he is doing it for me, so he wants me to have a better appearance. he does not want me to look on disheveled. he describes how we looked when we met former president clinton is probably like a homeless man. he wants me to be better, not have bags under

. >>> a water main break in rhode island caused this scene yesterday in rhode island.huge sinkhole that swallowed up a pickup truck with the driver still in çit. a police officer working nearby was able to get the driver out safely. it's still unclear whether heavy rain contributed to the sinkhole. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. >> 11 minutes before 6:00. a nace start this morning. just a few thin clouds left in the airy. you can see them looking past the comcast center, getting closer to sunrise. the temperatures will be up in a few minutes. right now they're still falling. 61 degrees in the pocono mountains. northeast philadelphia and atlantic city, upper 60s. there you can see a few clouds in the mountains, too. sunshine is peeking through in the pocono mountains. the low 70s this afternoon. you can see some of the clouds coming in from the north. they are not likely to reach the rest of the area. high pressure is moving in. look at that, how nice and clear it is to the west. we'll see days of sunshine, which includes the we

presently, i am a rising senior at bryant university in smithfield, rhode island. brian: what is your major? kurt: i am a history major, one of the few at bryant. it is a very small history department but a very good history department and i have actually the only history major graduating from bryant next year. i have been so passionate about history for well over half my life. i first got into presidents when i was seven years old. my mother brought me this book called "so you want to be president?" i actually don't know why she bobby the book. i think she offered to tell me at one point that i declined because i like the about it. tique about it.ys brian: have you read the whole book? kurt: it was a very thin book. when i really liked was the illustrations. it was my first exposure to presidents and i found the illustrations very funny. there is william howard taft, who famously got stuck in the bathtub at the white house. when david small's illustrations did was they showed president taft being lifted out -- lifted out of the bathtub with an industrial crane. th

rhode island avenue and ninth street in northeast. and the corner of pennsylvania and minnesota avenues in southeast. so volunteers are going to be in every ward across the district. they're going to be meeting at about 6:30 this morning again to remind everybody to slow down because there are going to be students back out on the roads this morning. it's very important that we be aware. they'll be holding signs to remind us. so make sure that you pay the ' -- pay attention to what you're doing this morning when you're all driving on your way in. the last thing we want is for something terrible to happen to the students. back to you. >> important reminder. kristin wright, thank you. >>> this morning your d.c. student can board a metro train for free. mayor muriel bowser expanded the free metrobus ride program for d.c. students to include the train. this allows the family to save some money. to get the free ride, just scan your d.c. one card at the gate. >>> 5:19. second cancers are on the rise. nearly one in five new cases now involves

one was sent to the now treasurer of rhode island, seth magaziner.he other was given indirectly to president bill clinton. brian: if someone says they want to do this, what would you warn them about? and how many total did you go to? kurt: 66 presidential and vice presidential. as far as all the famous graves, probably over 300. i would say, be prepared to invest the time and the money. sometimes, going on the trips if you have a rental car and are staying in hotels, you have to eat. it is going to cost some money. and time and patience because sometimes things are not going to go the way you intend for them to go. sometimes you will get locked in cemeteries and you have to call security or you have to climb over the barbed wire. brian: what stories have we missed that were particularly interesting to you? kurt: i think what of the better stories was the time i met bill clinton. that's a fantastic story. again, my dad waited outside overnight holding my place. he was actually around eight in line at the time. in the morning, we met president bill cli

the french are involved all the way up to rhode island mostly i see. the spanish almost all of their actions aside from the gulf coast and north america were in the west indies said the spanish and the french took quite a few different islands that in fact were on the verge of an aging jamaica when britain agreed to peace. losing massachusetts not that big of a deal, but jamaica is a big deal. actually a moneymaking colony. there's also battles in india and central america. the revolution was a global war sparked by the rebellion. [inaudible] >> i do have two women i wrote about here one once and for both brewster was a scottish woman and one of the things i find about her and both the female characters i followed were both european. they make very few choices about war, independents, where they live. their choices are shaped by the men in their lives and whatever the daily livestock, the big choices are not there. margaret o'brien who is an irish immigrant who married oliver pollock a protestant irish emigrant in louisiana. talking about sources and ho

let lead an active life he became a runner and eventually a track coach at providence college in rhode islandact, i was admitted into the providence college athletic hall of fame in 2009 and was one of the most successful coaches in the history of providence college finishing with an astounding career record of 162 wins, 14 losses and one tie. i am very pleased that bob could be here today to share the successes and challenges that he has experienced living with type one diabetes, so bob, to you and your family, welcome and we look forward to hearing your experiences to read thank you, madam chair spivak madam chair, i have a question. >> yes. >> with the former track coach at providence college like to operate track scholarship-- >> i think he is too late's. believe, that occurred-- occurred to me whether i should see them next to each other or not. >> after we hear from the coach we will hear from doctor gribbin rogers, the director of the national institute of diabetes and digestive and kidney diseases at the national institute of health. it is great honor, doctor, to welcome you back. you

maybe that was from rhode island. what do you think when you hear that?springfield, they have had gun buying days and they will buy guns from people. host: the police. they are handling it that way. we've got to get the guns off the street in the cities. that's where a lot of the problems coming from. a good place to start is the gun shows. this is sam and shady grove, texas. caller: good morning. we should remove the exception to background checks. there is no ultimate solution but that is a partial solution. if we had real parity with mental health and physical health, families would be better off. host: what kind of gandhi loan? host: -- what kind of gun do you own? caller: i have shotguns and handguns. host: why do you have an ak-47? caller: just for target practice. host: as a hobby? caller: yes. what if one of the solutions proposed was let's take away automatic rifles? for what my purposes are, i don't mind losing it. that's partout, if of the solution, fine but there is no one universal solution to the problem. we can whittle at it but i want to k

unfortunately, rhode island will never attend these meetings. now, this time they're not about to let one state keep them from getting something done. they'll pretend there's only 12 of them. and not only that, but when they vote, they'll go to the people in each state. let the people vote on a special convention and then the special conventions will approve or not approve the constitution for each state, and then you need nine states, three-quarters of them, to put this new constitution into effect. these are guys trying to engineer something because they know something needs to be done to hold these states together. they know as separate entities, you go back to benjamin franklin's design, the snake cut in pieces. that benjamin franklin had put together during the french and indian war, join or die. a snake put in pieces is going to die. a lot of men are embracing that summer of 1787. the questions they'll face in this room is what exactly is it that we want. so the first days of meetings are these very esoteric debates about the nature of fed

al up in the northeast in charlestown, rhode island.s a gun owner, what's a way to prevent gun violence, in your view? >> caller: good morning, peter. thanks for c-span. peter -- >> yes, sir? >> caller: we're looking at all the wrong answers. number one, one of the first answers is the movies and the videos say the kids see -- you see them in the streets. the videos and movies are big, big causes for the gun violence. number two, no one talks about the crime in the minority community, especially among the black population. they are shooting each other left and right in every city there is, and no one talks about it. you get a shooting like this, and all the sudden it's gun violence. we got to restrict the guns. i'm it willi itelling you it co the family, the videos, the movies. as far as mental health, blame that on the bleeding-heart liberal democrats. someone has a mental problem, they don't want it to be known. so they hide it. so we don't want the person to feel bad. so that person gets a gun, commits murders, it's because we weren'

in "against the tide," former rhode island governor lincoln they feoff recounts his time serving as a republican in the senate. and former secretary of state hillary clinton looks back on her time serving in the obama administration in "hard choices." in "a time for truth," texas senator ted cruz recounts his journey from a cuban immigrant's son to the u.s. senate. carly fiorina former ceo of hewlett-packard, is another declared candidate for president. in "rising to the challenge," she shares lessons she's learned from her difficulties and triumphs. south carolina senator lindsey graham released an e-book on his web site. in "my story," he details his childhood and career in the air force. former arkansas governor mike huckabee gives his take on politics and culture in "god, guns, grits and gravy." and in "leadership and crisis," bobby jindal explains why he believes conservative solutions are needed in washington. ohio governor john kasich calls for a return to traditional american values in "stand for something." george pataki is also running for president. in 1998 the former new y

abolitionists, from massachusetts, connecticut, rhode island, ohio, new york, stoppoured into kansas to kansas from becoming a slave state. yankeesans solve these pouring into kansas territory. they knew they were going to have a fight on their hands. in the mixture of abolitionists and pro-slavery mingling together in the kansas territory , the territory exploded in violence. , attractedrrorism men like john brown and his sons, and starting in 1854, a pre civil war began, and it was nicknamed bleeding kansas. warfare was going on in kansas territory. this is over who would control this new territory. the next that is to create a legislature. then write a constitution that is approved by the voters of the territory, and then it will be sent to washington for andfication by congress, finally, signed by the president of the united states. 1/2 years kansas was a territory, there were four attempts at constitution writing. the free state government wrote themselves a free state constitution, the topeka constitution. it was sent to washington for approval, and it was rejected. by the way,

[laughter] >> that's not easy in rhode island. so i'm proud of that.rage tothe take tough votes. i don't flip-flop. future,on for the ladies and gentlemen, i served on the senate foreign relations committee when i was in the senate and elected to chair of the western hemisphere subcommittee, so i've been all to this hemisphere and down through central america, south castro ininner with havana, met world leaders in venezuela, bolivia, ecuador, brazil, peru, throughout the western hemisphere. then i became the chair of the middle east subcommittee, traveled throughout israel, jordan, egypt, afghanistan, iraq, many of the countries in the middle east, lebanon, and that the world leaders there. and we see now with what happened with the chinese currency how it effected our stock market that the clichÉ is true, the world is flat. we are all connected. presidentg for because i know we have big challenges out there. i want to address them, make it a priority. we see the refugees, the war-torn nation's of afghanistan, iraq, syria, libya, and not only a human t

lenders in ohio and rhode island are becoming attractive lendinanding spots. good afternoon, i matt miller. apologies, every time i say ohio, i am supposed to say the great state of ohio. home of matthew miller. wall street is trying to gain its footing to get back on solid ground. stocks advancing after the steepest losing streak in four years. let's check the boards of the s&p 500, jumping at the open after a 3% rally on tuesday, evaporated in the last hour of trading. right now the broader market is up eight point 5%. the dow jones industrial average is also trading higher today, up 260 points at 15,900 25, a gain of 1.6%. the nasdaq is also in the green on this wednesday, up nearly 1.5%. nymex crude today is flirting with the $40 a barrel mark. at $39.13. it is down almost half a percent , trading at that level following yesterday's recovery from the lowest level since 2009. brent crude of a quarter percent. ignorers continue to gold as a safe haven, the focus instead on the prospect of higher u.s. interest rates. goal down one and a quarter 1001 hundred $

naval war college in newport, rhode island. commandant william reynolds, 1919-1924. congress gave him rear admiral rank and he led the service in the prohibition era. that was very dangerous duty. they were enforcing prohibition against some very tough people and they suffered casualties. that war went on in the atlantic and the great lakes. a surprising amount of liquor came out of canada. that was dangerous and controversial duty. before reynolds became the commandant, he had served in the spanish-american war. the u.s. navy lent the coast guard destroyers to cope with the oceans. the coast guard learned to run those destroyers, the navy top and how. -- the navy taught them how. in world war ii they will be running their own destroyers, but their experience with those navy vessels helped the coast guard a lot for a future mission they did not know was coming. billard finished off the prohibition years for the coast guard. in world war i, he commanded the u.s. navy vessel, the marietta. showing again the coordination between the two sister services. harry hamlet, re

there's a longstanding rhode island school where they proposed a 20 minute shift.e wanted to do it for three months, and said let's change the start time. >> not only were the students having a marked improvement in their mood. it was a boarding school. these students got sleep, 22 minutes of sleep. they went to bed and br able to sleep in. they had time to go to the cafeteria and fete food. they were barely trying to do that. they liked the change. they decided to stock it as a standard. when schools start earlier, and a lot do, what do we observe and measure about that. >> one of the things that is a problem with why there's a resistance with the school start is an idea that there'll be an incredible cost. there's not going to be a gain. one of the biggest ideas with that is the researcher has been out since the '90s. they talked about measuring student achievement. the problem is that students will do a lot of things to otain goals. they'll sacrifice activities and do what it takes to achieve something, and they have been sacrificing their health. that's the thi

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it is one of rhode island's cities. and they have south county, the area that westerly is in is south county. there is a david press scott who went out with a -- there is a david prescott that went out with a boat with a group called save the day and took some folks down the river. to read from the editorial prescott shared a jarful of smelly green algae from the bottom of little narragansett bay to illustrate how lawn fertilizer engine oil and all manner of interesting items flushed down storm drains end up below the surface of what appears to be a bucolic center. if we went further up the watershed, we would actually see sthawf came right off the land down the downfalls. this is the stuff that we know is in our developed areas. we see stuff such as oil and gas and grease and sand an dog west. it eventually tends up here in the estuary and little narragansett bay. based on his study using water sarching prescott urged leaders from both states to develop slow-motoring plans to better filter runoff, encouraging homeowner

my name is bob amato, and i am from johnston rhode island. when i was 1st diagnosed with type one diabetes i was 67 years ago, approximately seven years old. thinking at that time, people such as you guys were not able to compete. no athletics, no jim. that was difficult. i did not accept that, and i sought guidance from joslin and again guidance from my parents and i was able to prove that particular concept a fallacy, a fallacy to the point where in 2009 i was entered into the providence college hall of fame for athletics for both my running accomplishments and accomplishments as a coach. as a coach i had the privilege of coaching to world champions, 16 division i all-americans. teams competed and 116 new england championships. my coaching colleagues selected me to coach of the year 15 different times. that was what i would hope hope for when i was told it could not be done. i was able to find success despite the daily challenges of diabetes. because i always used to five this is important, the term, the latest technology. the latest techno

this morning at rhode island, and florida avenue. and here are -- here are the rest of those locations. take a look on your screen here. there are four of them. in different places across the district. we understand that mayor bowser will be at a couple of these locations, both this morning and also this afternoon when kids are walking home. so just remember to slow down. that's the bottom line. also, pay attention because it's the first day back to school. kids are out and about, walking. when you're headed out to work, slow down and pay attention bottom line. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 6:33 right now. it's transition day today in prince george's county public schools. this is for any students starting at a new school this year. that means some sixth and seventh graders and all new high school freshmen, they'll have day to get acclimated before the classes start tomorrow. >>> and as you send off your kids to the bus stop or take them to school, show us your scholars. you can e-mail us, tweet us, facebook us pictures of your back

the red line, that track work between rhode island avenue and noma gal you that -- noma galla udet. keep in mind you may see a few delays. . crass traveling west it's an overturned with injuries. police are on scene. as we pull out a little bit, you get a better idea of the beltway, not too bad right now through montgomery county. we're in pretty good shape. on the gw parkway, no delays. 95 in virginia. france story. let's take a live look outside. you get a really good idea out .ere how heavy we actually are moving back to the map, this stretch is slow from morton .ontinuing south you can get a better idea of how slow we are in this stretch right there traveling in the teens right now, and a crash to watch out for in woodbridge. carefuls blocked, so be getting by. larry: let's get back to the breaking news we talked about at the top of the hour. a2-alarm fire at an apartment building on south laurel drive -- a two-alarm fire at an apartment building on south laurel drive. >> you can see this is a three-story garden style apartment building. the worst of the damage is up on the thir

strong wind tore trees from their roots in rhode island. peeling lawns back like carpets. >> it's like a war zone. >> near coast at camp ground in charles town, 10 people were injured after trees crashed on trailers and tents. and another tree fell on an suv, killing a driver and in brooklyn, new york, a sink hole. this as another round threatens the northeast all over again. >> so what is ahead for today. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here. >> severe weather today is where it should be and where it typically is right in the heart land. the story in the west and the southwest is this high pressure that has slid in goes from texas. and that's where the temperatures are the hottest out there today. about five to ten degrees above average. a heating warning in effect almost from palm springs to the phoenix area. that's until 8:00 p.m. 112 in phoenix. not quite a record. still impressive. dallas about 104. it doesn't look to change. as i said toward the weekend a couple of degrees cooler. today's forecast one thing that has changed is we're

the providence and later rhode island colonies remarkably progressive policies of protecting liberty of conscious, the free exercise and enjoyment of all civil and religious rights and a guarantee against the establishment of christianity, in particular, became a model for various religious liberty advocates of the 1e8 century. maryland, too, was founded by catholic leader lord baltimore in 1633 as an experiment in remarkable catholic and protestant cocystance. no person professing to believe in jesus christ shall hence forth be any ways troubled for he or she religion nor in the free exercise thereof nor in any way compelled to exercise any religion beyond his or her consent. rather controversial was the quaker william penn in 1682 which had comparable guarantees. colonial america was an active laboratory for experiments not only in religious liberty, but also in a number of other basic rights and liberties. more than a century before the american revolution set to work crafting all of these instruments that are so famous today, the colonists had already written many of their own bi

the least honest, providence, rhode island. took money out of the box in one city, my city, washington, d.c. >> shocker. >> so gregory -- >> picking our pockets, too. >> women are more honest than men. >> this is the most p.c. baloney ever. you know what they did? they tracked observable characteristics. meaning the only characteristics that wouldn't get them in trouble. so they did gender and hair color. they found the least trustworthy were bald people. so that was their lead. bald people are the least trustworthy because bald people don't have an activist group. what if they had done race? what if they had done it in specific parts of a city? they would be crucified. instead they went after hair and gender. >> like luther and dr. evil. >> what if it were like a bald woman and she had some disease. it would have been terrible. dana, what about atlanta? why atlanta? >> i'll tell you why it's atlanta. it's not a study it's a p.r. stunt for the company. why atlanta, georgia? it's hot there. so they're drinking more iced tea. it'

a benedictine monk in rhode island thought that he found the perfect spot.e likes to sit atop the wind turbine at the private school where he works. 175 feet in the air. a drone found him. the person who owned the drone was on vacation from california. he is that the video online, spreading like crazy. hether byron says >> announcer: from hollywood - it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight johnny knoxville, from the golden state warriors, stephen curry, and music from kelly clarkson, with cleto and the cletones and now, here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ [cheers and applause] >> jimmy: hi there, i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. it's very nice.