it was enforced as recently as the year ago when a tv station and roanoke virginia aired a theycore pornography clip said by accident, but it did err on the public airwaves on time -- in a time when children are in the viewing audience. again, what exactly are there sections, does it begin out certain hour? describesontent that sexual actions. violence is not part of the broadcast indecency law. there are some that would argue that the harm that comes to children from watching by the media is even greater than the sexually exposing content. the research we have seen is that both has an impact on judge children.igh after 10 p.m., the broadcasters are free to air whatever they choose as long as it is not legally obscene. the argument from broadcasters is that parents chip and havee v control over what the children watch. broadcast indecency enforcement is still important. if you are violating the law then you are violating the law. air stufft to use -- that would be indecent, wait until 10:00 and you can do so without any consequence. chip asument about the v a solution is flawed because the accu

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-chip, and

statute and its still good law and it was enforced as recently as a year ago when a tv station in roanoke virginiaestrictions? 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 law you ar

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

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 children wat

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

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

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

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 haven't heard reports of people getting hurt an

this as a new poll in virginia shows the race tied at 38%. 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 fo

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

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 came out slow and have to do better. they stepped it up in the third. you can't win

rain and thunderstorms occurring in virginia and north carolina, and as a matter of fact, the freezing level is not that high. so what has been going on in the roanoke area is hail. lots of it. and these pictures were sent to us on twitter. check it out. there was so much hail, it covered the ground. they had to get plows out there to make the roads passable in some spots. north of there, north of charlottesville, we have some steadier heavier rain between culpepper and charlottesville, south of sper ryville for the most part. from orange, west. this is the worst locally, some spotty drizzle. spotty showers. everything moving from the north east to the southwest. and the cool northeast winds are going to be temperatures in the low 50s. we will be lucky to make the mid to upper 50s and washout tomorrow. back with more on that and the weekend forecast in a few minutes. >> thank you, howard. stay ahead of the weather, whatever mother nature sends our way, live interactive radar and up-to-the-minute forecast by downloading the free wusa 9 app. >>> beaten and torn apart from her son. that is what happened to a response vaina spotsslvania county. and depu

roanoke avenue. that is in tacoma park. montgomery county fire and rescue says the baby was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. >>> in stafford county virginia, a child custody exchange turns deadly. and tonight, one man is dead. and another is in custody. the stafford county sheriff's office says 27-year-old corey terry was going to meet his ex- wife, to pick up their child, when terry got into an argument with the ex-wife's husband, and fatally shot him. he then took off, running up the southbound ramp of interstate 95 before being apprehended by a state trooper. terry is charged with first- degree murder. >>> prince george's county police officers are searching for a suspect tonight, in connection with the shooting death in district heights. and police were called to the walker mill apartment, just after 4:30 this morning, for a report of a shooting, they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds, in the 1900 block of ra shell aven and the victim, taken to the hospital, where he later died. >>> okay, now, checking on our dreary weather. is it more of the same tomorrow? let's find out from first alert meteorologist howard bernstein. >> yes

bigger batch of rain around areas like roanoke and norfolk and a few thunderstorms right there off the coast of the carolinas and the southeastern areas of virginial 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 out in the 50s. generally dry with a bit more sunshine coming our way. then even warmer for sunday. 75. a chance fo

. >>> some students in virginia are hoping they gave goat a brand new outlook on life. this is lilly. 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 kno

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 about what he wanted to have happened during reconstruction on the second floor window of the white house