charlottesville on south to roanoke get the more substantial rain.e to 3-inches down here a little bit of concern about that. 6:00 o'clock tomorrow night, d.c. still dry, drizzle again doesn't show up that well. but watch what happens as we go through the overnight. here comes our low pressure coming up the coast. and now it's able to throw back more rain. that will begin about three, four in the morning tomorrow. 6am commute looks like it could be featuring some batches of moderate to heavy rain. we see even more heavy rain friday toward the noon hour, and then after we get past about one to 2:00 o'clock, it scatters out just as some showers. even as late as friday night at 10:00 still dealing with showe will be earlier in the day and finally on saturday, some sun. our low pressure will continue to move away. we'll have some dry hours. i just have to say that very late saturday into first part of the sunday morning there could also be a brief shower with a front that comes on through but it's not going to be the same type of pattern we were in sunda

the roanoke college poll shows 11% are undecided and 11% want somebody else. clinton took her campaign back to michigan yesterday where she rallied union members and hit trump over his rhetoric. >> there's so much more that unites us than divides us. and we're going up against a candidate who will pull us backwards on every issue we care about. we need a president who will use the bully pulpit to stand up for working families. but the last thing we need is a bully in the pulpit. >> meanwhile, we still have a democratic primary to talk about. the battle for california. hillary clinton has turned down an invitation to debate senator bernie sanders. in a statement, clinton's communications director said in part, we believe that hillary clinton's time is best spent campaigning and meeting directly with voters across california and preparing for a general election campaign that will ensure the white house remains in democratic hands. now, a santa monica rally, sanders was quick to criticize clinton for opting out of the debate. >> i was disturbed but not surprised

now all the summers are headed through roanoke, areas of charlotte about to get wet too and this is overe top of the mid-atlantic today. to make things worse, as we look towards the upcoming weekend we could see a pretty significant rain event, a saturday washout possible here in the mid-atlantic areas up to about philadelphia, new york city, forecast, it's a close call for you. keep an eye on that. if you have saturday plans in the mid-atlantic region you could get rained out. today's forecast, strong thunderstorms once again late today in areas of texas. southeast is going to be stormy too. and 57 degrees, jonathan, in d.c. with on and off rain. i think d.c. had a nicer march than may so far. >> wow. great, bill, thanks. >>> still ahead, final jeopardy, the category political terms. our own chuck todd is down by a few thousand. is he able to make a come back? the answer next. [phone buzzing] [engine revving] [engine revving] [phone buzzing] ♪ some things are simply impossible to ignore. the strikingly designed lexus nx turbo and hybrid. the suv that dares to go beyond utility. this is

sandwiched between two storms, the rain today, 11:00, noon, roanoke to raleigh, west virginia, best chancehe day today. all those little league games and afternoon activity, good chance of being rained out in this region. in new england, cloudy and drizzly, but no downpours. on friday, a different story. heavy rain will move through d.c., philadelphia, new york and push out in the afternoon. by friday evening it should begin to clear out. over the next three days, rainfall. this isn't like flooding type of rains. one to two inches isn't bad. how about in the middle of the country, 86 in billings. fargo near 90 degrees today. while boston is going to be 48. atlanta only 67. so we're in this very unusual weather pattern that will hold into the upcoming weekend. alex, eventually on tuesday some of that warmth will head to the east. but that's tuesday. it's only thursday. >> mother's day margaritas on the deck not looking good. >> you have that heater, right? >> still not the same. anyway. >>> here we go with california which is raising the age that people can begin smoking. governor brown sig

and the nation's capital, richmond, roanoke, charlotte, areas from raleigh to greensboro, win symptomalem and down towards asheville. we're not going to see hardly any, if any, tornadoes. but wind damage will be the biggest threat. let's take you through the timing of it. this morning just some clouds, showers. very ugly up in new england. there's still some light rain around, temperatures are very chilly. but south of d.c., that's where the warm air will be. that's where the storms will form right around 4:00 to 5:00, lasting till about 10:00 p.m. a lot of lightning and again wind damage is the threat for jonath jonathan. be happy, though, d.c. will be warm at least, up to 80 degrees. today it's 55 in boston with a cold wind off the water. just ugly. go ahead. >> i was going to say, so bill, i'm actually coming up to see you. i'll see you tomorrow morning. we'll be together. >> oh, we are. barnicle, we've got to get out of here. jonathan's coming up. >> see you tomorrow. >>> the odd wade in which the cia marked the fifth anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden. we'll have that

statute, and it's still good law, and it was enforced as recently as a year ago when a tv station in roanoke, virginia, aired a hard core pornography clip, they said by accident, but it did air on the public airwaves at times when children are in the viewing audience. it's, to our knowledge, still good law and still being enforced. >> host: again, what exactly are the restrictions? does it begin at a certain hoursome. >> guest: yes. >> host: is it nudity? is it violence? >> guest: it is content that describes in patently offensive terms sexual -- violence is not part of the broadcast indecency law. there are some that would argue that the harm that comes to children from watching violent media is even greater than the sexually-explicit content. the research we've seen is that both have an impact on children, but right now the law only effects sexual or excra story content only between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. so after 10 p.m. the broadcasters are free to air whatever they choose as long as it's not legally obscene. >> what about the argument from the broadcasters that, you know, parents have the v

statute and its still good law and it was enforced as recently as a year ago when a tv station in roanokeare the restrictions? does it begin at a certain our hour? is a nudity, said violence? >> guest: it is a content that is described in patently offensive terms, excretory function. violence is not part of the broadcast law. there are some that would argue the harm that comes to children from watching violent media is greater than the explicit content radar research we have seen is that both have an impact on children but right now the law only affects sexual or excretory content between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m. so after 10:00 p.m. the broadcasters are free to air whatever they choose as long as it's not legally obscene. >> guest: one of the arguments from the broadcasters that parents have a lot of control over what their children watch. is that enough to prevent kids from watching things they shouldn't be watching? >> guest: it's one very important resource. we don't think it's the sum total of all the remedies out there at the enforcement is still important. if you are violating the l

you can see the rain in roanoke and charleston, west virginia. all that rain lifts north over the next 1 hours and get in here after 6:00 p.m. in the short term of light showers to start an drenching downpours. 9:00 a.m., sunny, 73. 11:00 a.m. 82 sunshine. 1:00 p.m., 85. clouds and sun. 3:00 p.m., more clouds than sun. 5:00 p.m., 85 with the high of 86 degrees. here's the remnants of bonnie coming onshore at charleston, south carolina. it will lift all these feared -- feeder bands into the north, delaware and lehigh valleys overnight tonight. when i come back i'll let you know how much to expect in your neighborhoods and the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast. >>> thousands of people are enjoying the holiday weekend at the jersey shore. yesterday summer-like temperatures attracted people to the beach. some braved the 59-degree water to take a dip. >>> you're a kid again, i'm coming here since i was an infant. every year, i think for the last 42. >> reporter: it's wonderful. it's perfect. you love being together and in ocean city and they lo

. >>> a roanoke park man died when a stunt plane crashed in nevada. he left south of las vegas before crashing near the city of jean. the company allows the company to supply stunt planes with instructor supervision. peterson and the instructor were killed and they have not yet determined how the plane crashed. >>> proof that it does president have to be -- that it doesn't have to be christmas to have a thief around. it is a program to help autistic kids. sergio is live tonight in concord police headquarters with more on this story. >> right now concord police are trying to help identify him. the good news here is that no one was injured during that robbery and it may actually turn out that the restaurant may get more donations than if it was stolen from that jar. take a look at the video. the thief walks into digger's diner and heads to the donation jar. he casually snatches it up and runs out the door. here is another angle. the donation jar bandit walks up to the jar and sprints off. >> we empty them every few days and hopeful leahy didn't -- hopef

now look at these numbers. 83 in roanoke. 84 in richmond. this very warm air is moving in. because of that, we do have storms that are also moving in as well. it is all just down to our south and west. severe thunderstorm watch for southwestern portions of virginia as well as southern portions of west virginia. that's a severe thunderstorm warning. we have some severe weather going on right now. so far all reports from these storms. they could pack a punch with some heavy rain and wind. it will over the next several hours. it's not 5:00, not 6:00. it's 7:00, 8:00 tonight. heavy rain and wind. we have not seen much in the way of strong storms so far this spring. looks like it is going to be tonight. it is going to right with us all the way through tomorrow morning. >> it is the kind of day where you want to stay a step ahead of the weather. keep the nbc washington app han handy. you can track the storms on radar. >>> first at 4, we're also getting a look at new video that shows the moment a csx train derailed in northwest d.c. we want you to watch in the left corner as somet

you see the threat from washington through roanoke, charlotte, also raleigh, durham, the area that were talking about includes 14 mlt people impacted by the severe weather threat that will go into the overnight hours. and that's not all. as this trailing front continues to move eastward in the next 48 hours, we're talking about 1 to 3 inches of rain. and in a coastal storm, developed as we head toward the weekend. it's going to be days before we are out of this weather. it looks like the weekend by the time we are dry along the east coast. greta? we'll send it back to you. >> cathy, thank you. >> get yesterday to speed read the news. historic new york city church burned to the ground on orthodox easter sunday. this incredible video showing flames shooting out of the 161-year-old cathedral. just hours before the fire broke out more than 700 people were gathered inside the serbian orthodox cathedral of saint -- was it arson? investigators are still trying to determine a cause. history made today in cuba. a u.s. cruz ship arriving in havana for the first time since the 1970s. cubans gath

this happened on roanoke avenue around 7:30 last night in takoma park. fire and ems says the infant fell three stories. it's not clear how the child fell. the baby did not have life threatening injuries, but the injury was traumatic. >>> officers used pepper spray to break up a university of maryland house party. and now police there taking a closer look at video from officers' body cameras. yeah, you can hear the chaos that unfolded this this video posted to twitter. just about 2:00 saturday morning, police were called to a noisy party and possible fight at the courtyard in college park. an officer was surrounded by a crowd at one point. pepper spray was used twice including during the fight. police say they are reviewing to see if the use of force was actually appropriate. two people were arrested on multiple charges, including disorderly conduct during that incident. >>> well, we want to take you to a developing story, the of a began taliban confirms one of its chiefs mullah mansour has been killed strike. problem authorized that air strike friday nig

summary for late may and early june. 86 in boston. 84 in roanoke. 84 in columbus, ohio. the future cast here get you cracking. look at the showers to the south later this evening. things should dissipate. notice the effect of the winds now that are coming more off the atlantic tomorrow. we have a few clouds at times. we have showers, a maybe isolated thundersto thursday. couple more could pop. most of the heavy action far away. cold front will come here friday to give us a chance of showers and storms. the next seven days. 83 tomorrow. 80 on thursday. warm and muggy. isolated showers and storms. likely with a cold front on friday. another cold front bringing showers and thunderstorms that could last till monday. scott: list of the happiest counties in america is out in our area. well represented. according to smart asset.com loudoun county is ranked as the happiest county in america. fairfax came in close second. michelle: carver county, mingles, came in third. chester county, pennsylvania, fourth place. hunterton, new jersey, rounds out the top five. howard county and m

trish: or roanoke region. >> after they nationalized production, price was going up, production was goingown. that is another -- trish: production was going down because they nationalized everything. >> they couldn't get parts. trish: took over american companies and took over from fetch company total. so nobody invested. >> nobody invest. it was cronyism at its worse. they reward the supporters of chavez government. other issue they nationalized supermarket. they put price controls for food. because food prices escalated after 2002. now they escalated food prices and there is shortage of food because there is not enough to feed the people of venezuela. trish: airlines said they will not fly there anymore. why not. >> in addition to price controls, they put controls on currency. lieutenant towns that will suspend flights from june because they have roughly $139 million tied up in funds in venezuela. the bolivar is the denomination and they can't take that money to germany. so they're just not going to fly anymore. airlines that still fly to venezuela include american. not a lot of flights

you can see the bigger spin down to the south and a bigger batch of rain around areas like roanoke andfolk and a few thunderstorms right there off the coast of the carolinas and the southeastern areas of virginia. all from this area of low pressure. it's a big one. it will start making its way up. some more moderate to heavy rain about midday tomorrow. 52 showers more widespread after midnight. it goes way up during the afternoon and evening rush. noon to 6:00 p.m., some of the heaviest rain will be coming to our area. we could see a half to maybe over an inch of rain through friday. there's a look at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. by the time we get to 11:00 p.m. tomorrow, around midnight, the rain will start to taper. 7:00 a.m. saturday down across areas of southeastern maryland, the last of the showers with this system will be making its way out. minimal impacts for your friday morning rush. showers around heavy to moderate rain from noon to 6:00 p.m. you're going to need the big umbrella. temperature about 50 to 55, 56 degrees just like today. your saturday up to a high of 71 after starting o

roanoke 72. washington, d.c., 67 degrees. we are warming up two reasons we're seeing the sun and the winds have shifted out of the west/southwest that puts the temperatures in the upper 60s. we'll top out somewhere around 70 degrees, happy mother's day to you. sunny and nice, breezy, 70 degrees is the forecasted high. the big question is how long will the nice weather last, good afternoon. the sun returns that's the main headline in the forecast it is warming up. looks like the unsettled weather returns later this week, thursday, friday, saturday, maybe sunday could be four straight days where we see clouds and showers and thunderstorms and periods of rain. enjoy the sun while we have it. it doesn't look like it will last for very long. it's nice out here right now. nydia and gray when i come back in just a few minutes we'll see how long the sun last in the forecast. >>> many are taking advantage of the sunny dry weather this mother's day. >>> indeed they are. many events are happening throughout the day including the spring

but 7:00 ocean city at 70 degrees, roanoke at a warm 81. made melissa, very quiet this morning. >> and we like it behaving itself. orange, blue, silver line, speed restrictions there in the direction of new carrollton and 95 south at 32, truck reported stopped in the roadway. 270 south from germantown to the spur, on time. top of the beltway 95 to 270, on time. 66 inbound and 95 north quantico to the beltway, looking good. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car. >>> it is a startling diagnosis. a so-called super bug, why health officials are so worried. >>> and a daring what if there was a paint that made you look at paint differently question everything you know and what you don't know what if it's built with better ingredients given super powers and even a secret base to test those powers. since benjamin moore reinvented paint, it makes you wonder is it still paint? find benjamin moore paint, only at one of our authorized retailers near you. >>> now as 5:45, the holiday travel season rush is on. >> and whether you ar

warm front down around roanoke, area of northeast north carolina and making its way closer to us. higher temperatures and that's what we're going see the difference higher temperatures compared to last week. there are some showers out there right now. more to come. a lot more. we'll take a look at the seven day forecast in just a few minutes. >>> future of i-66 is up for discussion this week and it could radically alter how you drive inside the beltway. officials have set up two meetings to discuss widening the eastbound highway between dulles connector on-ramp an fairfax parkway drive. they will reveal the design plans. first meeting is tonight at washing-lee high school. >>> solemn honors today for capitol hill police officers who lost their lives on duty. the color guard marched through congressional auditorium as part of national police week remembrance. most recent death was sergeant clinton holt who suffered a heart attack two years ago. two officers were killed at the attack at the east entrance in 1988 and an officer was killed in a training exercise in 1984. >>> there wil

down toward our region and i'll zoom in on this region and show you what we're looking at here and roanoke coming toward charlottesville and west virginia. we will see those showers making their way back in here right around the 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 hour on into the early morning hour and something else we've been watching all day and this is western kentucky around paducah and look at the tornado warnings and this is the same storm system that brought 23 tornado reports yesterday including numerous tornadoes we have brand new video of a tornado that was on the ground around paducah, kentucky and chris lawrence at the live desk with more on that. chris? >> doug, last night you and i were marveling at some of the video that we were watching. these new images from kentucky are just incredible and the threat's far from over. here is the video just coming in from the town of mayfield. the tornado touched down just about an hour ago and several people were taking cover when they saw this firsthand. the wind is a shredder, just ripping right through buildings at this dealership and we

showers north and east to roanoke. but the main action is over eastern kentucky and western section of west virginia. i will rotate toward our area. by that time they should lose some of the energy. we don't expect anything severe. but rain and the heavy downpours are part of the future later tonight. by the morning rush a lot moves out. then it will form and be heavy again. wednesday we have increased chances of rain. that is the story for several days. look at the probability. 70%. 60. 40. through friday the cooler temperatures again. hoping for partly sunny day on sunday. jonathan: and we are looking for the color red! capitals trying to go up in the second game. it was heartbreak over the weekend. michelle: erin hawksworth at the console energy center with a preview. we could use a win there. -than-is -- erin: that's right. i'm rocking my red. this series is tied up at a game apiece. the caps almost stole game two. but they just couldn't get it done. they struggled in the first two periods. the players admitted ey

there already in the southern parts of the shenandoah valley down towards the new river valley and roanoke valley. for the metro washington area, we're all dry for now. future weather carries that little hint of a rain chance through the shenandoah early this morning. and then everyone is dry through late morning into the early parts of the afternoon and by 4:00, 5:00 today, there some hit and miss thundershowers again primarily out west of the blue ridge. rain chances in town are below 30%. temperature-wise, 50s and 60s now. we'll quickly move into the mid and upper 80s for most neighborhoods today. about 87 your high this gaithersburg. could be as much as 90 tomorrow in manassas. today and tomorrow in d.c. right around 89. going out to the baseball game, cardinals in town, on your way to the ball pack, 88 degrees. game time temperatures will be in the upper 70s and low 80s. here is your "7-day forecast." pushing 90 both today and tomorrow. slightly better chance for an isolated shower tomorrow, but no big deal. saturday dry, sunday mostly dry. best chance for rain monday night on into tu

she livesed a an adoption center in the roanoke area. she was born with only two legs apparently. some high school students in that area learned about lilly and they decided to build her a wheelchair. now she can get around better. >> lilly has never walked before in her life. i bet you she's excited. >> now, it took the team 70 hours of work to make this wheelchair. the shelter is hoping that lilly can meet and comfort people with disabilities p. >> imagine what these young engineers can build in the future. >>> breaking news both in the district and montgomery county, what is shut down? coming up. >>> it was created after a child pornography scandal rocked a prince george's county elementary school. now we're learning when we could hear what a student safety task force plans to do to protect students. >>> a live look outside this morning. you can see some of the rain clouds off in the distance. may need to pack the umbrella for the kids. chuck bell has your schooday forecl as look, i know you're a cow and all. and you may not know what i'm talking about, but, uh. the yogurt made

we do have thunderstorm activity down toward roanoke and these showers and storms will continue to move to the east and should -- should be able to make their way in here before midnight and only 56 in hagerstown and 64 in washington and we are stuck in the cooler weather and we've been to the south for quite some time and temperatures, 60 degrees at 7:00 and dropping to 57 as the rain comes through. i'll show you what to wake up for. something different than rain. >> thank you, doug. >> fairfax county's police department says it is working to be more transparent three years after the death of john gere. gere's death led to protests and questions about force and procedure since the officer's name was not released. that officer adam torres pleaded guilty to manslaughter last month >>> transparency is what's needed for the department. that comes today from an outside research group. a report by the police executive research forum called for fairfax county to release names of officers involved in shootings within two to five days. it says if names can't be released because of a threat or s

john randolph of roanoke, exhumed recently by conservative intellectuals, fought against adding to the voting rolls and his motto, i am an aristocrat. i love liberty, i hate equality. he prevented virginia from expanding voting rights but by the middle of the 1800s the united states was the most profound democracy the world had ever seen, for the first time mass political parties with high voter turnout. democracy was sort of a fad. it began to feed on itself when people interested there were more people who were left out. the next great breakthrough came during and after the civil war. a war when hundreds of thousands of african-americans served the union army, when lincoln gave his inaugural address a large part of the audience were african-americans in uniform. lincoln for his whole career was opposed to voting rights, his first stab at reconstruction, disenfranchise former slaves and enfranchised those who had taken up arms against the country but he changed, he began to change. two days after the surrender of the south at appomattox lincoln gave his first speech, his big speech ab

this was his house, roanoke.n august," and "absalom, absalom!". and many of his works took place in a fictional county, a place very much like this place, in mississippi. >> bill griffith: this is where faulkner started his writing career in this room, here. >> anthony: for the past ten years, bill griffith has been curator at william faulkner's estate. >> bill griffith: he added this room on after he won the nobel prize. and on the wall here is an outline of one of his novels. >> jack pendarvis: yeah, that was his greatest book. >> bill griffith: yeah, faulkner thought this was his masterpiece. >> anthony: jack pendarvis is the author of "your body is changing," "the mysterious secret of valuable treasure," and "awesome," as well as staff writer for a game-changing animated series "adventure time" -- all works of which i am a huge fan. so he wrote right -- right on the wall. >> bill griffith: he just wrote on it. >> anthony: it's -- it's his man cave. >> bill griffith: yeah, it's his -- it's his version. he said

including roanoke, raleigh, charlotte, and also asheville. conditions are ripe.orms popping now. our first severe thunderstorm watch has now been issued. the instability is there and we expect to see more storms with the potential for wind damage and even large hail as we head throughout the afternoon and evening. let's time it out on futurecast. you can see, this is what we can expect this afternoon. showers and thunderstorms, lightning and heavy rain, the main threat up until about 5:00 to 6:00. then this evening, as you're heading towards the evening commute, that's when these storms will peak in intensity from d.c. towards virginia and the carolinas. wind damage then becoming a main concern, even as you head into the overnight. besides the severe weather, all the areas ravaged by flooding see heavy rain today. this is a slow-moving storm, erica. unfortunately picking up another 1 to 3 inches of rain there. rivers still on the rise and the flood danger continues. we'll have more coming up later. >> we'll watch for it. tough to see, raphael miranda for us this

there's leading showers making it to roanoke area. you here with the fox future cast. i think we get the nats game okay this afternoon begins one and around game time ending, 4, 4:35 most showers have not made it to washington. once they do it will rain steadily as they increase into the overnight hours. watch the path of the tropical system intensify to washington and up to northern delaware and south jersey a.m. memorial day morning and that's heavy rain and imbedded thunderstorms! heaviest along the coast. absolute washout at the beaches won't happen when all the rain from new jersey to virginia beach. we might get breaks in washington as this is much more coastal system. but even instability showers later tomorrow afternoon and into early tuesday morning. so touch and go here in d.c.. rain in the morning. but it's unsettled enough we have a chance for showers all day memorial day we clear out tuesday. >> it should bring us happy one to two inchs of rain not much an inch or show show from washington to annapolis anden hainesed east

roanoke 67. richmond 66. washington, d.c., 63.e'll see nice warm weather heading our way and more on monday. the cold front that brought the heavy downpours to the region first thing this morning is now past the delaware valley it's all up into new england now and most of today will be cloud-free from 11:00 a.m. on with a lot of the sunshine. that's the call from accuweather, improving conditions, sunny and breezy. high temperatures topping out around 70 depending on your location, maybe a degree or colder north and west, maybe a degree or two warmer south and east. not a bad finish to the weekend. tomorrow is nice, as well. the unsettled weather moves into the region again as we get into tuesday and another round by week's end. i'll have the details in the seven-day forecast when i see you in just a bit. >>> no rain gear that's a good look on you, keep it. >>> 9:31. turning to the race for the white house, presidential hopeful bernie sanders will be in north jersey well attend a rally -- where he will attend a rally at rutgers un

mcafee has a degree in mathematics from roanoke college. he is an internationally recognized pioneer in cyber security. he developed the first antivirus protection system. [applause] larry: good luck. mr. dell peary. [applause] born and raised in birmingham, alabama, he has had a career as an author and host in tv and radio. he is cofounder and cochair of new hampshire tea party and owner and managing editor of free press publications. [applause] larry: governor gary johnson. [crowd chanting "gary"] larry: after a successful career as a business he became the republican governor from new mexico from 1994 to 2003. he was the libertarian party presidential candidate in 2012, getting the more votes than any lp candidate in history. mr. austin peterson. [applause] [crowd chanting] larry: mr. austin peterson is owner and ceo of stonegate, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. he was an associate producer of freedom watch. finally, dr. mark alan feldman. [applause] larry: dr. feldman graduated from northwestern with a degree

statute and it's still a good law and it was in fourth as recently as a year ago when it tv station in roanoke virginia aired hard-core pornography quit they said by accident but it did air on public airwaves on a time when children are in the viewing audience. it's a good law and still being forced. >> again, what are the restrictions question mark doesn't begin at a certain hour question mark is nudity, violence, where is the line? it is content that depicts or describes in patently offensive terms sexual or exploratory functions. violence is not part of the broadcast indecency law. there are some that would argue that the harm that comes to children from watching pilot media is greater than the sexually explicit content. the research we've seen is that both have an impact on children and right now the law only affects sexual or exploratory contact between 6 am and 10 pm so after 10 pm the broadcasters are free to air whatever they choose as long as it's not legally obscene. >> what about the argument from the broadcasters that parents have the v-chip and a lot of control over what their chi

bobby from roanoke, virginia. let's hear from more of you. this is from roy from rochester, michigan, our line for all others. good morning, welcome to the conversation. caller: good morning. somebody asked for a post-racial america. let's start with a scientific fact. quoting a noted black, and i'm putting that in quotation marks, journalist, pulitzer prize winner from "the miami herald" over a year ago sub punished a scientific fact. in the year 2000, that's 15 years ago, research scientists studied the d.n.a. of five people of four different races. again, i put that in qtation marks, and determined that there's no marker that identifies people by race. their final comment was, the concept of race has no scientific basis. in other words, there is no such thing as race. there's no black america. no white america. yellow, brown, red america, martians, no green americans, ok? so if you understand that there is no such thing as race, then you can understand that while there's racism, it's based strictly on appearance, not about what's alike abo

i went to a drug court graduation, the founding drug court in virginia is in roanoke and the judge who founded it was this far sided thinker about the need for drug courts had a child who many years later was killed in a drug-related incident. after i spoke at the graduation, one of the probation officers who helps the court run, and is a spectacular advocate, said this is my second drug court graduation. and i said did you have another class? and he said no, i went to my son's graduation class two hours from here. this effects every level. we haven't spent time on it in this committee and it is important we do so. this is not -- just like it doesn't have demographic borders it isn't a problem with national borders even. we have to grab ahold of the dimensions, mexico, china and other nations experiencing this and build those partnerships in a metropolitan region and law enforcement internationally. thank you for being here. >> and mr. dudley, about the transnational groups targeting us, i think in your testimony you talked about this and i want to reiterate it. whether it is fentanyl

mcafee has a degree in mathematics from roanoke college . he is an internationally recognized pioneer in cyber security. he developed the first antivirus protection system. [applause] larry: good luck. mr. dell peary. [applause] born and raised in birmingham, a career ashas had an author and host in tv and radio. he is cofounder and cochair of new hampshire tea party and owner and managing editor of free press publications. [applause] larry: governor gary johnson. gary"] chanting " larry: after a successful career as a business he became the republican governor from new mexico from 1994 to 2003. he was the libertarian party presidential candidate in 2012, votes than anymore lp candidate in history. peterson. [applause] [crowd chanting] mr. austin peterson is owner and ceo of stonegate, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. he was an associate producer of freedom watch. finally, dr. mark alan friedman -- feldman. [applause] larry: dr. feldman graduated from northwestern with a degree in philosophy. he is an anesthesiolog

roanoke, virginia, independent. .aller: good morning, c-span thank you for everything you do and yournbiased coverage every morning. you had a few callers ringing in on the same bell. a lady from maryland said what politician has made bad decisions like hillary and her staff made. who is better, who is worse? they will do the same thing. it is an interesting dichotomy between the apathetic and outraged. you have trump and bernie. hillary in the middle somewhere. if thesees for america people think, this is the way it will be done, it is the way it has always been done. that is part of the problem. no.le on both edged saying people in the middle class feel oppressed. have had enough. they are back to the old phrase "throw the bums out." still, this thing will drag, drip, drip, drip, and not go anywhere -- that outrages the average freethinking american like myself. host: before you go, what if there are people -- there are people that have called this a political witch hunt. whether it is the benghazi committee or other investigations into hillary clinton's e-mail activity. it is not t

that's a case of right versus benton branch of mountain trust blanche of roanoke.ere's other cases and we did some extensive research on this and we asked some experts to do researchon this . you can have i think a pretty valid claim against the state on policy grounds, whether we want to have that policy in the bill or not but i don't think we should reject the state as a matter of constitutional law because the supreme court has made it pretty clear that we have the authority to do this and i yield back. >> is there further discussion on this man? >> mister chair. the amendment proposed by mister fleming would dismantle a core provision of the bill, section 405 should be viewed in isolation. the reason why this bill provides for this automatic stay is precisely to encourage, incentivize creditor negotiations, negotiations between debt insurers in puerto rico and the creditors. this is something that is done in every chapter 9 case in america, wherever you have to reorganize a public entity, public instrumentality in the us. you file a petition before the bankrupt

this area of yellow includes washington, d.c., richmond, roanoke, raleigh, charlotte, down to ashevillere not really a threat today, but wind damage and maybe some small hail with the strongest of those storms. the morning commute is strong, minor travel problems, especially philadelphia, new york city with low visibility. but as we go through the afternoon, 4:00 to 5:00, the thunderstorms begin to form and then they'll be widespread by 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., right through virginia, even down through south carolina and areas of north georgia. again, wind damage the biggest threats with those storms. the rest of the country's actually looking pretty decent. of course, the east coast, we had a great spring, it was a miserable weekend, and unfortunately the cool weather continues with us as we go throughout the week. new york city, same for you as we duothroughout this monday. more "morning joe" when we come back. covering is caring because covering heals faster. for a bandage that moves with you and stays on all day, cover with a band-aid brand flexible fabric adhesive bandage. it takes a lo