i'm delighted that he happened to choose rhode island as his point of focus today because rhode island really does wrap it up. it is energy security, energy independence, local jobs, and getting ahead and winning the game of international competition for this new technology. i thank the chair and i -- before yielding the floor will ask that four unanimous consent requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate be approved, they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders, so may i ask unanimous consent that the requests be agreed to and the requests be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: mr. president, i didn't come to the floor to speak about the wind energy tax credit but i want to say to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle i agree with them and they probably know i agree with them because i'm the author of the wind energy tax credit of 1992 and i often tell people when we worked so hard on that i didn't have the slightes

have been trying to find ways to fight back against the billionaire takeover of our democracy well rhode island is passed a new bill trying to put transparency back into american politics will this be the start of a nationwide trend also americans love their furry feline friends with over eighty four million cats and households across the country but new research suggests our love for cats might actually be driving women insane more on that in tonight's geeky science and what happened to the american politician who played up to working class citizens instead of flaunting money and wealth in their faces the time in this country when those in washington who wanted to be like the average joe but not anymore i'll explain in tonight's daily take. the best of the us the news back in two thousand and eight when candidate barack obama trounced john mccain in the state of rhode island scooping up sixty three percent of the vote beating mccain by nearly thirty points. but despite the beat down republicans were hoping to make rhode island a battleground state this year maybe not for the presidency

i'm still kind of in shock. >> reporter: rhode is a california native who spends about 8 hours a dayange, pulling the trigger nearly a thousand times each practice. we talk to rhode in california just before she headed to london. >> you know, the nerves haven't kicked in yet. >> reporter: winning her 5th medal was a different kind of challenge. this time, she had to use a new gun. the one rhode used most of her life and in the last four summer games was stolen after the 2008 o limp eks. police recovered it a year later but by then, an anonymous donor had already given her a new gun. >> to have everyone here to see it is just -- makes me cry. >> not bad. not bad. >> reporter: her proud coach is also her father. >> oh, we're on cloud nine. i mean, i can breathe now. >> reporter: rhode was just 17 when she scored her first medal and took aim at breaking the olympic record. now, 16 years later, she's letting her hair down before taking aim at a possible 6th olympic medal on saturday. cbs news, london. >> when we come back, no heart, no soul, but what a lifesaver. the robot that makes a w

. >> delia goncalves joins us live from rhode island avenue in northeast with a look at things there. that was a really bad place to be last night, delia. >> reporter: i know. it's like these folks just can't get enough. just give these folks a break. we've all been through a whole lot these past couple of weeks but some good news to report this morning. it seems like pepco is making some progress. we checked about a half an hour ago, and the outages were at about 7500. now they're down to 5200 and here's one example why. you can see the lights are flashing here at this intersection of 20th and rhode island avenue in northeast. fortunately the lights were just back on so power was restored a short time ago after the lights were knocked out following last night's fast moving storm. let's take a look at some video that was shot last night. you can see that the heavy rains caused widespread flooding throughout the area washing out roads and basements. for thousands in the area this is the third smack by mother nature in recent weeks, by far

neighborhoods in rhode island ave. that is where tom rouse the is live with the breaking details. >> folks out here are getting real frustrated for the third time in nine days -- a lot of their basements are flooding. if you look at rhode island avenue now, it does not look too bad but check out this video we shot within the last half hour. it was awful out here. it flooded within about 10 or 15 minutes. after the storm came in, cars were having trouble getting by. we have to move our livestock or it was going to get flooded. -- our live truck or it was going to get flooded. third time in nine days in this one section of rhode island avenue nw it also happened last night during the storms as well. people are getting very frustrated and we went with some of them earlier today as they tried to prepare for what they knew was coming tonight. >> it is a pain in the butt. >> ryan decided it was time to sandbag the home he has owned for six years. >> i late every tile and put all that a sport in. i will not wait for someone e

. >> near first street and rhode island avenue northwest was flooded.'s get right to bob barnard who is live in that area. what's it like now? >> reporter: it's fine now basically. earlier it was a mess. this is a section of rhode island avenue that was under 2 feet of water earlier in the bloomingdale section of northwest washington. it was a pounding rainstorm that hit before previously, five, six years ve back there was a worse storm than this and extreme flooding. i think the d.c. government needs to take a more preventive approach. >> reporter: a number of homes got walloped by the floodwaters. rich gazino's basement got go flooded once again. yes, that's raw sewage that came up out of s his toilet during the night's worst wo weather. >> it's really, really frustrating. >> it's been pretty devastating for the residents i've spoken sp to. i've been inside a couple basements and we've got folks with problems. >> reporter: ward 5 council member mcduffie came out to see for himself the effects of flash flooding here along rhode island avenue. >> we've

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: mr. president, i rise today to join my colleagues in supporting the disclose act. i want to commend senator blumenthal for his extraordinarily insightful and articulate words with respect to this critical issue. i particularly want to commend my colleague from rhode island, senator whitehouse. he has been the driving force to bring this issue to the floor, to educate all of us in the senate and the american people about what is at stake here. in many respects, its our democracy. it's the presumption that every american has that their vote counts just as much as anybody else's vote, that elections are decided based upon issues and ideas and not the sheer volume and the sheer magnitude of 30-second advertisements which are designed more to divert than to inform, more than -- designed more to incite than to inform. most people believe in a -- the system which is based upon thoughtful consideration of ideas and issues and everyone's vote counts. senator whitehouse is extraordinary an extraord

the downpour cowed flash flooding near first street and rhode island avenue.can see, the high waters made it impossible for cars to drive through the streets. many homes in the bloomingdale neighborhood experienced some flooding and thousands of people lost power. unfortunately, we are all too familiar with that scenario. -- the downpour caused flash flooding near first street and rhode island avenue. >> it is summertime in washington but we are not thinking we're going to get a lot of thunderstorms or heavy rains today. that was about 2 to 3 inches in less than an hour. >> we need a good, dry, sunny day. >> i think we might get it today. today will be the quietest day of the week. >> so we focus on getting outside to do some of the work that needs to be done outside. >> he sounds disappointed because he has to do it now. >> i just continue to ignore mine, wisdom. if you look down when you walk inside, you can't really notice it. >> what about when the neighbors start putting signs on the door? how do you ignore those? >> they just drive real fast past the hou

serves of t street rhode island avenue -- sections of t street, rhode island avenue filled with water. it's flooding this neighborhood suffered just last tuesday after a torrential downpour. now a little summer rain has resulted in more flood damage. this ground level condo has been hit twice now, new damage complicating and delaying repairs that are already underway. here's one of the storm victims who is weighing in along with the president of the bloomingdale civic association. >> a little bit of sewage, about 3 inches of water and you spend 12, 16 hours cleaning up, s drying out, finally reset your basement, get everything back down there and within a day or two we're back at it again. >> perhaps there's just too much trash and gook in the system that needs to be cleaned out, but i'm not an engineer and these are the answers we need to get from d.c. >> reporter: d.c. water which operates the city's sewage and water system is building a $2.6 billion water storage system they say should alleviate some of these problems out here, but that is 20 years out and a lot of neighbors are te

we want to get around that, take rhode island avenue.ill have construction on the outer loop at 123. traffic is getting by. to the left causing a bit of delay but looking great right now on 66 each direction. let's look live at your jermantown road. no backups. on the eastbound side, 11 minutes and 60 miles an hour to get from the fairfax county parkway to the beltway. aaron, eun, back to you. >> thank you, mike. >>> laroche, ground ball. they're going to try to turn two. and they're going to send this game into the hands of the nats with a low throw. at first base, washington wins it, 6-5. >> got another dramatic victory for the nats. they swept the giants with a 6-5 win last night. nationals scored twice in the ninth inning to tie and eventually win the game. washington's won four games in a row now and they will try to make it five tonight when they host the colorado rockies. all right. >>> the nationals might have won the game but their rookie phenom did not win a sfot in the all-star game. we tried though. bryce harper finished thir

delia goncalves joins us live with a look at conditions on rhode island avenue.hings looking there now? >> reporter: well, some good news, jess, i should tell you, that pepco has made some progress and the lights are back on at this intersection. you can see, though, this people are treating it as a four-way stop and they should be because the lights are still flashing. so power has just been restored and commuters heading to work this morning should proceed with caution when they're traveling through 20th and rhode island avenues. pepco has been making some progress. after thousand of customers last electricity. last night's fast moving rain flooded numerous roads throughout the region and basements and neighborhoods like bloomingdale in northeast flooded for the third time in the past couple of weeks. this go around, though, restoration is far faster than it was during the derecho which left hundreds of thousands of customers in the dark, anywhere from three to seven days. as pepco seeks a 4% rate hike, a number of maryland legislators, including congressman ch

come and join us in rhode island. thank you very much. [applause] >> the state of south carolina, please. >> i am the candidate to oppose the nation's worst house speaker, bobby harris. www.hirelarryfirebobby.com the state of south carolina is the leading exporter of automobiles and the repository of the most toxic waste. the state of south carolina, where it is ground zero for the war on women. where our governor just vetoed funding for rape victims' medical treatment. [boos] she calls them a distraction. the state of south carolina, where we were honorably led by the great candidate for united states the southeast regional director for the abolition of this deadly technology of boiling of water to make electricity. he got 10% of the vote. south carolina has three delegates presence and three proxies. this tuesday there is a special election for the first woman and only woman who could possibly serve in this state's senate. sue edwards. everybody listening in senate district 41 vote tuesday on july 17, vote green. we cast one vote for th

kim rhode won gold in skeet.cutive olympics. it's amazing. we'll talk to her in a few minutes. >> and then we are going to meet one of the people behind one of the most talked about parts of the opening ceremony. of course when the queen jumped out of the helicopter, i didn't realize it was not the queen. >> you did. >> i didn't know that. >> they're not going to push the queen out of a helicopter. >> maybe she jumped! we'll meet then man who played the queen -- other than matt. >> enough about matt's weekend. >> i knew it would go there. there was nothing i can do. it was in slow motion. let's get the latest olympic news from michelle kosinski over at tower bridge with a wrap-up. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. today u.s. swimmer ryan lochte goes for his second gold in the 400-meter freestyle. he got the games off with a bang busting michael phelps. >> it is france which wins gold. >> reporter: france beat the u.s. sunday in the men's 400-meter relay. a disappointment for michael phelps and ryan

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr.tehouse: i thank the distinguished senator from colorado for his impassioned and eloquent support of this. i think we both recognize that through the course of our country's history men and women have shed their blood, have laid down their lives in order to protect this experiment in liberty that is the ongoing gift of our country to the rest of the world. and when we take that experiment in liberty and turn it over to the special interests, it is a grave occasion. i see the majority leader is on the floor. if i could take one moment as he comes to the podium to ask unanimous consent that for the duration of today's session, alex link, rob femegliti and samantha freeman who are on my committee staff be granted floor privileges. i yield the floor. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the committee on indian affairs be discharged from further considers of h.r. 205 and we now proceed to consideration of that measure. the presiding

he has got a colossus of rhodes, but he has also got the goddess of liberty. these were greek and roman goddesses that surfaced during the french revolution that come from greece and rome that in ancient times represented a freedom of slaves, and those images reemerged to symbolize the liberty the french revolution was supposed to bring, so all during the 19th century in france you have different versions of a goddess, a female version of liberty, and you see them in little sculptures, and you see them in paintings. there is a whole series of paintings. a bunch of them stimulate bartholi. one is "liberty of the people." the image of the goddess of liberty is there for french people to keep in mind the ideal of what liberty might be. the french are looking for this ideal, and they end up with authoritarian governments after having revolutions. the image of the goddess of liberty is there for french people who want a more orderly form of liberty, for them to keep in mind what an ideal of liberty might be. all these ideas are jostling around in his head. when he

is but the more examples that we have to hold in support of this argument the better so hats off to rhode island for at least taking this leap and now let's put pressure on congress every other state to do the same you know the line sunlight is the best disinfectant. your. our guide it is time for a happy hour and joining me this evening alone a show senior producer jenny churchill and kevin glass managing editor at townhall . thanks for joining me guys the road map again let's just start with the good old john stossel tele so he decided to go out on the street dressed up as a homeless person on his show for a little scared and here is him talking about how he did it and why you should give to those people take a look. i made at a rate of about twenty four thousand dollars tax free i just did it for a couple hours but with one sign that said help i i really need help but one sign said i'll be honest with you i just want to be here i collected the same rate people just automatically give me shouldn't give to the street people you're really supporting alcoholism and drug problems so you sho

an adorable kitten is born in rhode island with two faces. a little freaky but adorable all the same. good morning. i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. we begin with romney's exit from bain capital. a political firestorm erupted after filing showed bain capital listed as ban's ceo long after he was supposed to have left the company to run the winter olympics. the papers said documents filed through 2002 list romney as "sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president." during this time, many of the job losses occurred. romney insists he was no longer at the firm and was never part of that decision making. a bain representative said at that due to romney's sudden departure in 1999 it took time to transfer his ownership to successors. the obama campaign pounced on the story calling it the "big bain lie." obama deputy campaign manager, stephanie cutter, charged that he may have even engaged in illegal activity by misrepresenting his position at bain to the s.e.c.

an adorable kitten is born in rhode island with two faces. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with romney's exit from bain capital. a political firestorm erupted thursday after the boston globe revealed security and exchange filings showing romney listed as bain capital's ceo long after he was supposed to have left the company to run the olympics in 1999. it named romney as chief executive three years after he took the olympic job. the paper said documents filed through 2002 listed romney as, quote, sole stockholder, chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president. during the period due to losses of investments as well as investigations of outsourcing have occurred. his campaign insists he was no longer at the firm and wasn't part of the decision-making. a bain statement yesterday said due to his sudden departure in 1999 it took time to transfer ownership to his successors which continued to show him listed in many filings. well they pounce odden the story

one area that has been hit hard is rhode island avenue. tom roussey has more. >> it is a pain. >> with more rain coming and flooding for two days, this man decided to stand and bag. but he wishes he did not have to do this. >> you have to leave work early to make your own sandbags. it's not a sustainable way to live. >> residents who live in neighborhoods 50 years shared images of yesterday's flood. they say the 100 block of road alamos avenu -- rhode island avenue has a long history of flooding. >> it gets bad. >> a long-term solution is a 13-mile water and sewer tunnel that 13 years from being finished. residents say that is too long. sewage is literally backing up to their homes -- into their homes. >> it is a public health concern. there has to be something that the city can help with. >> we caught up with brian again last night. his basement flooded for the third time in nine days. other people had their basements flood as well. they're getting very frustrated and they say they cannot wait 13 years for this to stop happening. tom rous

langevin of rhode island. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes in support of his amendment. mr. langevin: my amendment proposes to add $15 million to the idte for the purpose of augmenting the spinal cord injury research program within the medical research program. the spime cord injuries are a serious combat-related condition affecting many servicemen and women. in response, congress established the spime cord injury research program in 2009 to support research and to repairing damaged spinal cords and improving rehabilitatetive therapy. more than 30 years ago when i was first injured with a spinal cord injury, i was told i would never walk again and you can't pair the spime cord. some 30 years later, we know that that is not accurate and no longer a question if we can repair spinal cords, but when. and this offers great hope to our men and women in uniform have have been the victims of a spinal cord injury in combat. recent research promises to make the repair of spinal cord injuries a rea

. >>> for 224 years, people bought groceries from a general store in rhode island. grace opened the doors in 177el 8 and passed down through the wake family for generations. john wait says it's no longer profitable and needs to close. something loyal customers are sad to hear. >> it's a lands mark and something that's been here for a while. one of the few general stores have been left. that's the sadness about it. >> this is just such a piece of america. this cannot be touched. >> the store doubled as the first post office in rhode island. >>> if someone offered to pay utility bills you would be tempted to take them up on it. sadly it's a scam. what you need to know to watch out so you don't fall victim to the ploy. and wedding cake denied. why a colorado baker will not make a wedding cake for a couple's special day. >>> also a london taxi driver came up with a way to make extra cash during the olympic games. now helps those in search of last minute accommodations. >>> lester, of frederick, says there the patchy fog. i will tell you when it burns off and walk you th

he has got a colossus of rhodes, but he has also got the godde of liberty. good these were greek and roman goddesses that surface during the french revolution that come from greece and rome that in ancient times represented a freedom of slaves, and those images reemerged to symbolize the liberty the french revolution was supposed to bring, so all during the 19th century in france you have different versions of goddess, a female version of liberty, and you see them in sculptures 0000 i i i i i i i i there is a whole bunch of them that symbolize bartholi. you have images they are loong for. the image of the goddess of liberty is there for frenchy people to keep in mind what an ideal liberty might be, so whem all of these images are jostling around in his mind and he decides this needs to be a class, greek or roman goddess. as to be western, the western power of the astates. and it will represent the ideal liberty that was percolating in france, but never rlized. >> how did they get add motion, behind the idea of selecting the site, talking to americans? how di

the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: madam president, may i first ask unanimous consent that for the duration of today's session, varun jane, who is a fellow in my office, be granted floor privileges. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you. tomorrow, madam president, we will have the opportunity to deliver a little bit of tax certainty to the american people by advancing the middle class tax cut act. this legislation would prevent tax rates from increasing for the vast majority of american families and would preserve an important tax credit that currently helps millions of students and families avoid th the -- afford the costs of a higher education. this middle-class tax cuts act is the right thing to do for the middle class and i intend to vote for it. the question is: will it be filibustered? a tax cut for millions of hardworking americans filibustered simply to protect the wealthiest americans from paying a fair share. we will find out. this is not a new story. in 2001, when pr

isla rhode island avenue. i'm tired of this. >> charles harris has lived here for 15 years. last night's rain pushed water into his basement and sewage into other homes here. it's enough to bring tear to his eyes as harris who suffers from parkinson's disease wonders how he'll clean up, again. >> but every time it rains, you have to wonder what is floating awai. you don't know what is going to float away. your personal effects. >> reporter: as he talks about the task ahead and look at his second water damaged car in two years, he also worries about a friend next door. >> and the lady next door, she got brand-new furniture. this is her second time. new furniture destroyed. >> reporter: down the block, ryan edds and his wife spent the night awake cleaning four inches of sewage and water from their row house. >> right now bleach and sewage are fighting in nigh nostlrils. >> since it started coming in and worst part was then it started bubbling up through the toilets and the sewers and front and back drains here.

downpour caused flash flooding near first street and rhode island avenue. the high waters made it impossible for cars to drive through the street. >> good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. we can't seem to catch a break with all these storms and the rain and heat. always something. >> still pretty wet out there. what do we have coming our way? >> it is quiet now. we don't have to worry about any more rain. we are expecting temperatures in the upper 80s to about 90 degrees. degrees. >>> there is your radar. quiet conditions out there. parts of the area did not get anything at all yesterday. today, i think the shower activity stays south of us generally. we'll watch it down towards the north carolina border throughout the day. the humidity is up, 85%. here is your forecast for the afternoon and we're looking at high temperatures again in the upper 80s to about 90 degrees with partial sunshine. like yesterday, should be a pleasant afternoon. more details on the forecast in just a minute. back to you at the desk. >

this was the scene on rhode island avenue northwest. motorists were struggling just to get around. some were concerned that d.c.'s drainage system could not handle the downpour. while d.c.'s d.o.t. director explained exactly what happened. >> when you have a downpour like we had last night, when you get that much water at that quick of a time, the system is not going to be able to handle it. that's what you were saying, the system was not able to handle it. >> he adds that d.c. is working to improve its drainage system and flooding like what happened on rhode island avenue last night whether become less frequent. >>> arlington county police have several leads in their search for the driver who struck and killed a pedestrian. we brought this story to you yesterday morning. 62-year-old robert help shrd was -- shepherd was hit while in the middle of route 110 at the pentagon. he's from lawrence, massachusetts. his girlfriend reported he had been missing for about two weeks. >>> today the head of fairfax county's board of supervisors will ask for a formal investigation into the 911 out

rhode island does poorly in the economy category. they're a mess. they had a tough time all around.he one thing going for it as we said is that capital seems to be coming back into the state, so we'll see if that helps the state's fortunes last year. >> scott cohn with the top and bottom states. this is not a science fiction movie, the president of the united states quietly signing an order giving him the power to take over the internet in an emergency. does it give the executive branch way too much power to a huge part of our economy? we'll discuss both sides of the issue next, and the city by the bay will not buy any apple products because the computers are not green enough and an environmentalist defends that decision next. and today's twitter question of the day, the most serious one yet. to beard or not to beard? what do you think of gary kaminsky's new look? stick around, back in a moment on "closing bell." >> the most sweeping internet directive you never hear about until today. word is out that president obama quietly signed an executive order on friday that gives the white

. >> john gonzalez is in one of the hardest-hit areas, which is rhode island avenue. they have been through this so many times. >> unbelievable. three times in just over a week. residents are just getting to bed this morning. they were up all night drying and cleaning their basements. one resident said she has lived here 50 years and this is the worst in has ever been. residents on rhode island are near their breaking point after their basements of flooded three times in the past nine days. >> this has been going on at least the last 50 years i've lived in this neighborhood. i recall being 10 years old and having a flood. >> heavy rain again. cars struggling to stay on the road. a low-lying area notorious for flooding. , it's once again flooding residents put the blame on the city, saying it highlights a complete lack of apathy and response by the department of public works. >> i have cleaned my basement three times and it's really hard and costs linked. >> d.c. water does have a long- term plan to upgrade and try to alleviate flooding in the bloomingdale neighborhood

a day ago, the bloomingdale neighborhood was inundated with rain and this is that neighborhood at rhode island and first street northwest and, once again today, more flooding and doppler indicated to us that there were 2, 2 1/2 inches of rain in that area from the thunderstorms and a flash flood warning is still up for the district until 7:00. then this picture, you can see the water bubbling up from perhaps a great grate or manhole cover. this is a low-lying area, we know that and have drainage issues there. i can't believe that in the span of a little over a week, they're having to deal with this again. now, look, i want to take you over to radar. the rain is winding down in the district and in the green areas, we have the flash flood warnings until 7:00 tonight. the strongest storm, though, has gotten over here across the bay and it's a severe thunderstorm warning for portions of, well, actually, they cancelled the severe thunderstorm warning. as you can see, heavy rain and a lot of lightning for queen ann and kent county, chestertown, you will get some of that and to sentinel radar.

skeet shooter kim rhode embraced the elements and became the first american to win an individual medal at five straight olympics. >> you still have the emotions that hit you when you're standing on the podium watching the american flag go to the top of the pole. >> and royalty made an appearance today. king james and the dream team debuted with first lady michelle obama in the audience. prince william joined david beckham to cheer for great britain's soccer team. a proud grandfather and mother, the duke of earl and princess anne, came out to watch zara phillips ride. and the man who would be queen, well, the stunt double who played the scene in the opening ceremony said it was the part of a lifetime and he only got one take. what's the size of the spot that you had to hit though? >> okay. the actual landing area that we had was very small. >> and have you ever jumped with a handbag and a skirt? no. no, but it might happen again. who knows. >> he wouldn't have been able to make that jump in today's windy weather. and showers are forecast and so britain, brian, for the rest of the week.

on rhode island avenue, more flooded basements and a second sewage backup in just over a week. >> i'm glad i did not replace mice of already from last week. >> and the second time in a few weeks but some neighborhoods of lost power. residents claim they have waited years for pepco to cut down the trees. >> a lot of headaches now. this will be used to clean up. >> from pumps to power lines what a mess. residents on arcadia say they have been complaining about these trees for years and pepco telling them they have been waiting for the city to get approval to cut them down. reporting live, john gonzalez abc 7. >> now to the aftermath of last month's big storm. the montgomery county council will hold a debriefing today on pepco's response to the storm that left hundreds of thousands without power for days. head of the maryland public service commission will talk with council members about the performance. members of the public can attend the event but will not be booked as speak. coming up, we will talk with one community activist who plans to be there. she has a creative song about her f

the private school where she worked was a long slog from coastal rhode island.as probably seeing more of tori the dog than david her husband. >> i think it was some god awful amount. >> at least some four hours back and forth behind the wheel? >> yes. >> did that get to her? >> there were times where it would get to her. she would be up at the crack of dawn and home late at night. >> spring of 1999 would be their time to escape the grind and enjoy together what they loved best, the water. >> so come spring break that year, she and her husband are going to go to the british virgin islands and dive. >> yes. >> in one of the most beautiful oceans of the world? >> exactly. >> but, of course, that trip, that last dive would go so horribly wrong. how could anyone make sense of the deeply sad and mysterious death of shelley tyre? >> when we come back, disaster underwater. >> he surfaces screaming? >> what had happened beneath the surface? >> he's got another diver with h him and i realize it's shelley. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] what's the point of an epa estimated 42 mi

archaeologists found out from the original statue the colossus of rhodes. it was a warrior image, male image, powerful giant presiding over a victorious country and that's not like the brazen giant of greek fame. that's what emma lazarus had in mind. we're not doing that. >> and she started out with a negative statement which isn't what we usually think of with poetry, like let's start criticizing something else. >> not like the brazen giant of greek fame with conquering limbs, conquering limbs astride from land to land. we're not going to do that. we're going to have a milder image. now the image is still going to be a mighty woman with a torch, but it's interesting that the transformation has been from a male warrior image to a female image. it's not a demure woman. it's a powerful woman argues mighty woman, and she's captured lightning, right? is the imprisoned lightning, and her name, and emma lazarus gave her the name mother of exiles. so that she is a mother figure. >> to me that's the big moment in the poem that nobody knows. >> right, right. >> moth

and i want to again thank the senator from rhode island. part of our challenge will be to elicit better agency coordination. and if the senator from rhode island wishes to comment further, i hope that perhaps he can respond to the question of how soon we should come together and work on this issue. is it a problem we can delay until the next session or should we try to address it during the coming months of this session before we close? mr. whitehouse: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: i'd be delighted to respond to the senator from connecticut in two ways. the first is that as the senator so well pointed out, this is not a future threat or a prospective threat we need to prepare ourselves against. this is an ongoing current threat. there is a campaign of attacks into our national security infrastructure, into our intellectual property, and into our critical infrastructure like the power grids and the communications networks that we count on in our daily lives for what we consider the ame

folks living near t street and rhode island avenue are again cleaning out the water and sewage there. there is also more toppled trees and power lines and one of those trees crashed down onto two d.c. homes. some neighborhoods are back in the dark once again this morning. good morning. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm wisdom martin. welcome to fox 5 morning news. we go from the heat and a quick storm and it keeps getting more interesting. >> and it heats right back up again, doesn't it? >> yes, it does, but nowhere near yesterday when we hit 101 degrees. today, it will be warm hand humid. we've got showers and thunderstorms or at least the possibility in the forecast later this afternoon. i don't think expect we'll be dealing with quite the severity of the storms we had yesterday. nice quiet conditions at the moment. your morning commute should be fine although it is warm and humid across the region. 80degrees in washington. our humidity is 71%. our winds are here out of the north at five miles per hour. our front we've been talking about is hanging out across the region. that will kick off

harmony rhodes was an adult film star for several years. she passed a criminal background check and qualified for the position. she is now on a six month probation period which is standard for volunteers. >>> another big story tonight, molestation allegations against none other than george zimmerman. he's already charged for shooting 17-year-old trayvon martin to death. now a woman has come forward claiming he abused her when they were kids. a recorded interview with police was released by the duvall county florida state's attorney. the woman said her family traveled with zimmerman's family and said the abuse began when she was 6. >> every time that we would go up there i could just look at him and he would give me a certain look and i would know if it was going to happen when we got together for family gatherings. because he just got this look in his eye like he was going to. >> visitors say the woman just called them days after zimmerman shot trayvon martin back in february. zimmerman has admitted to shooting but says it was self- defense

john, you mentioned using soar in rhode island. i mean, it's been a successful program i would think there would be a really wider conversation about using it nationwide because it's- that is one of the things that we are looking at. in addition, not only just those individuals that are below 133 percent of the federal poverty level, but for those individuals between 133 and 400, you have got a lot of youth in there that are not insured. and for the most part, the way that youth communicate these days is through pdas and other devices. so again, thinking about strategies by which, for those youth that have pdas that might have a mental health or substance use condition, to try to reach out to them around the importance of insurance. because i can certainly remember when i was 21 or 22 and somebody wanted to take money out of my paycheck for insurance, i thought twice about it. but the fact remains is that i think we're going to have to do a little bit of a business case for those individuals. and as richard said, meet them where th

parts of rhode island avenue were under about two feet of water at one point. the water actually picked up some cars that were parked on the streets. the storm left behind power outages and right now around 760 pepco customers are in the dark. dominion is reporting 32 people without power in northern virginia and 185bge customers do not have power right now. most of those in prince george's county. nty. expected across the area. i don't think we'll see anything more than a scattered shower out to the west later this afternoon with high temperatures about 90 or so. 60 out it the west. 68 in winchester. -- 60s out ito the west. >> thank you. >>> time now toto talk with jul wright about the situation on he the roads. of a been pretty busy this morning. -- you have a been pretty busy this morning. is >> sky fox is en route to yet another crash. they were busy giving care that that beautiful sunshine shot. we are giving them sua few extr moments to get live over the er scene at route 50. right now, out on the beltway, you will find lanes are open between annandale a

i also want to thank the senator from rhode island, senator whitehouse, tonight for organizing this for his leadership over these many months. it is a quarter past 8:00 p.m. tonight in washington, d.c., as we debate this bill. actually we're not debating the bill because we weren't even allowed to move to a debate on the bill. i can't tell you the number of times we haven't been able to do that. i'm often struck by the fact that i think the founding fathers would have wanted us to debate all these bills and to vote up or down on all these bills and to go home and explain to our constituents why we voted one way and why we voted another way. here we are not technically debating a bill once again because we haven't been able to move on to a piece of legislation that historically, and i hope again will become bipartisan. as as i mentioned, mr. president, it's quarter past 8:00 here at home, in colorado, it's quarter past 6:00. it's dinner time in colorado. families are sitting at home, i hope they are, in fact, i know they are, having dinner with loved ones, much as i did when i was a boy.

for the third time in eight days rhode island avenue near third street has flooded. >> residents have seen this before but never in such a short amount of time. our surae chinn is live in the bloomingdale neighborhood. >> reporter: some folks didn't even have a chance to clean up from wednesday's storm when another round ephraim came in through here last night. that's -- round of rain came in through here last night and that's the case with this family. you see the sandbags still out in the basement level, all the muck and sewage still in their basement and this is becoming a weekly occurrence and residents in the bloomingdale area of northwest d.c. are sick of it. youtube video shows rain and raw sewage bubbling up, the pressure knocked off the manhole cover. it's what happens when there's too much rain too fast in a century old storm drain system. >> the tub was rising. the toilet was rising while it was doing. that. >> reporter: we're talking about raw sewage coming up. >> yes. it's really bad. >> reporter: in a nearby business the such pump in overdrive and can't handle the gushin

. >> the rhode island area and d.c. suffering. let's check in to find out what caused all of that range. >> a severe thunderstorm warning late last night in the early evening hours. we are looking at another chance for heavy rain later on this afternoon across the mid- atlantic. doppler radar showing these guys right now. nothing around the media -- the immediate area. we may see 1-2 inches of rain by the time the system moved out of here. >> 6:14 right now early on this friday morning. >> we have more to come. an update on the shooting at a colorado theater. one week after two girls disappeared, police are ready to search the area w organic artichokes, organic lettuce, organic kale... does your cauliflower have a big carbon footprint? not at all. that's great. melons!!! oh yeah!! well that was uncalled for. uhh...mr. gallagher. incoming!!! it's wasteful. you know jimmy. folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico sure are happy. how happy, ronny? happier than gallagher at a farmers' market. get happy. get geico.. 15 min

jennifer donelan is live at the rhode island neighborhood for more. >> the residents cannot believe that we have to be here again today. we spent the day visiting the water locked basement apartments, and just a while ago, officials were handing out fliers letting them know that sandbags are ready. for a third time in a little more than one week. >> pouring in under both doors, the water outside about up to my ankles. it was filled with water about four inches of water in the shower and it was starting to come out of the shower into the bathroom. the toilets were rumbling. >> i am trying to stick enough that i can be effected. >> it was again in the northwest neighborhood. this was last night. and this was today. the water in his rental property was four inches high. a seven-foot-high pipeline was beneath the area underneath rhode island avenue and it can overflow quickly leaving homes saturated, in frustration. they crawled down manholes so they could look for anything that might be blocking it causing the water to gosh where it does not belong. >> we are trying to take cautionary measu

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you see the storm clusters, a few storms in connecticut and rhode island and the coastal areas of massachusettsnd in the carolinas. that is moving along this front that was south of us last night. now it is that north again. this big area of high pressure is still sitting there. storm activity will be along the north edge of this thing. the front is expected to slip a little soft can be noise until the fourth of july. the sunshine will be somewhere -- the storm will be somewhere in the mid-atlantic region. most of the nation is a steam bath except the pacific northwest. warm and humid tonight. 68-75. winds almost nonexistent. hot and humid again tomorrow. perhaps an isolated storms cropping up. maybe not quite as high as today. if the humidity will make it feel like close to 100 pripet -- close to 100. . we take a look at the futurecast and there is a chance for isolated activity. we go into tuesday and we see mostly activity out in the mountains of the west. minimal rain chances in the area. there will be a front to the north of us with activity along the front. we will have to see how far nor