but the worst right now, port st. lucie area, severe thunderstorms right over i-95. stay indoors about another hour and let that storm pass through. wet weather, savannah to charleston. beautiful country there. and central north carolina dealing with heavy rain from greensboro to ashboro. so there is some travel concerns but we are finally clearing out. beautiful morning from d.c. to philly, all the way up to new york. still cloudy and cool weather through new england today, but most of the rainshowers will pop up this afternoon. the morning hours look a lot better. we're also going to see stormy weather today after a hot day yesterday around dallas. thunderstorms today. 87 degrees. could have some airport delays there. nice from minneapolis to chicago to detroit. and on the west coast, still very chilly in the pacific northwest. even there, though, we'll begin to improve the weather ever so slowly. what a beautiful shot, washington, d.c. florida, you'd love some of that sunshine. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by starbucks. well hello, welcome to hotels.com. s

catherine/st. lucy roman catholic church in suburban chicago. twice a month for more than 30 years, people with mental illness have come together here for prayer and conversation with volunteers. >> it's also time to give praise and worship to our god because we're here. we made it. whatever our day brought, we made it, and without him we never would have made it. >> reporter: connie rakitan founded the program and still runs it today, helping to design worship that's welcoming to all. >> walking into a church with a long service and a long sermon and lots of music and lots of people could just be so overwhelming that it's just not doable. >> praise our god, who lavishly loves us. >> we would never, ever use a healing passage, because we would not want to set somebody up for an unrealistic disappointment, because the fact is not everybody gets cured. so it's not like, you know, just join a church and everything's going to be hunky dory. >> reporter: but programs like faith and fellowship do help some people. >> their families might be alienated

from vero beach to port st. lucieer the top of lake okeechobee, sliding over the east coast of florida. also around savannah, georgia, charleston, light rain through central georgia. showers along interstate 16, maybe even a heavy downpour. further north, if you're in central portions of north carolina, bring the umbrella, it looks like a wet morning around greensboro to asheboro, some of it drifting towards raleigh. there's a lot more good weather than bad. d.c. today 74, slight chance of afternoon showers and storms. most of the day will be cry. watching heavy rain today, possible around dallas, with some thunderstorms. but it's getting better. let's put it that way. starting to feel a little more like late spring. >> a lot of storm clouds on the map today, bill. >>> let's turn to sports, with chris bosh available for the fern time in the eastern conference final s the heat big three renunted. boston tried to steal one on the road. bosh checks into the game to ovation and chipped in right away. he backs into the pai

st. lucy's in spanish harlem then took a college professor position in pittsburgh then awarded his ph.d.. he is president of the sea largest catholic civil-rights organization. publisher of the catalysts serve negative s2 decades from the national association of scholars. he guessed lectures every year to phd these around the world. for the legal and education freedom foundation, the jewish action alliance alliance, christian film and television commission, project moses moses, george doubt academy, catholics come home, the coalition to save iraqi christians. also on the ancient order of -- and on remember the catholic social workers association. also on the advisor report of family in america ugh journey of public policy purpose he has won many teaching awards speaking of civil liberties and ask how does a man have the chance to sit down and write a -- write a book? we are glad he did. then mabel let him takeover. clearly the catholic church has gone through difficult times with the horrifying abuse of 10 years ago which could have been prevented by many within the church is own ranks. t

let's go to port st. lucie in florida. john, go ahead with your comments. >> caller: two quick questions. i heard that "the spar spangled banner" was not waving all night long. i guess they had raised it during it the morning hours, is that true, if that's correct. >> that's right. okay. let me -- >> go ahead with your second question, john, and then we'll get you the response from vince vaise. >> caller: quick question, armstead, that you mentioned, was he related to the armstead general who helped lee pick the charge at gettysburg? >> two questions on the waving of the flag. >> i'll answer the first question first. >> okay. >> sure. right. there was an american flag the whole time. however, there was a smaller one during the night of the bombardment on the pole. and it was probably just sopping wet on the mast. that flag, the wet one, the smaller one, was taken down by dawn's early light and replaced with the large one which was carefully kept dry, and that's the one you see in the national museum of american history, bu

. >> and, but not least, chad caine from port st. lucie, florida. >> why do i love the name chad? >> i do, too. >> go to ivillage.com/hotdads to vote. 11:59 p.m. is the deadline. >>> coming up next, what is your man really thinking? >> nacho man will give you the answers straight from the horse's mouth. that's hysterical. >>> we got a problem here in the studio because top-ranked polo player nacho is in the neighborhood today, because tomorrow he's going to be co-hosting the polo classic in our neighboring state of new jersey. but -- >> since he was in town we thought we'll talk to nacho about that and have him answer some of your burning questions about men getting the other view from the married heartthrob and father of three. >> yeah. then he met bobbie who he called boobie. so we don't know what's going to happen. we're happy you're here. big event coming up tomorrow? >> big event coming up tomorrow. the polo classic, very excited about it. >> we can hardly understand what you're saying but we love to hear you talk. keep talking. >> just like you. you talk one on top of the ot

st. lucie's college in spanishge harlem. in 1977, he took a professor position at rhodes college in pittsburgh. .. he is a president and ceo of the catholic league for religious andof civil rights, the nationso largest catholic right civil rights organization. the publisher of the catholic league journal, he served for two decades of on the board of the national association of scholars come and continues to guest lecture at for phd's are on the road. he is also a on the board of advisors for the washington legal solvation in the educational freedom foundation, the society of catholicuessed lr scientists, the jewish actione alliance, the christian film and television commission, catholic citizens of illinois, thee georgetown academy, catholics come home from the coalition to save iraqi cchristians, and thet advisory committee for inside catholicia life.ancient he's also a member of the catholic war veterans and an honorary member of catholic social workers national association. he serves also on the editorial advisory board o

, all of those things, -- port st. lucie, all of those things is something we have to work on, something we have to fix. when we made the commitment to address to governments -- to countries' broken immigration systems, one of those things was enforcement. hopefully compassionate enforcement and we've seen that as well. but the notion that we would close down these zones of impunity, and we think we've done that. host: jim fry asks off of twitter about adoption agencies and how they've been caught in the act of human trafficking. guest: well, adoption agencies are -- it's an interesting topic. adoption is not technically human trafficking because the person is not then doing an economic function so it's not buying and selling a human being for a job or buying and selling a human being for prostitution. on the other hand, we certainly see the adoption issue as a related issue to human trafficking and we want to make sure that unscrupulous brokers in the adoption field are truly uniting those children who need a good home with

officials say a woman was found dead in venus in the middle of the state between port st. lucie and sarasota. john zarrella is live there, and what are we looking at here? how does it look? >> well, suzanne, the sun is out right now, and it is a good sign showing that the tropical storm debby is weakening. but here in the community of pasa grill people will long remember the storm, because you can see behind me, this is a detached garage with an apartment on top of it. fortunately nobody was living in there when last night at 8:00 they had straight-line winds and possibly a tornado and waterspout that came on shore, and officials weren't sure what it was, but it came through the area, and you can see there is standing water here, and the fence has been knocked down, and we are going to walk down the street a little ways, suzanne to, give the viewers an idea what we are talking about, and the power is all out here, and people have been cleaning up their front yard, and a sign that is down and bent over here as well. we get offto the corner, and there's a park, and in that park, y

officials say a woman was found dead in a home in venus located in the middle of the state between port st. lucie and sarasota. a child in one of the damaged homes was also injured and taken by the hospital. people say they were blind-sided by the twisters. >> i got my wife and my dog put them in a hallway there and said it's coming. about that time it started blowing real hard. >> it happened real fast, in a matter of 30 seconds. we saw a bunch of wind pick up. shoved into the bathroom. scared half to death. it was pretty traumatic. >>> meteorologist alexandra steele is tracking the storm for us. slow and fierce. >> those two girls made a really good point. tornadoes and flooding may be the calling card of this thing, but the tornadoes as is a land-falling tropical storm, they are quick to spin up and quick to dissipate. so it is hard to even warn them. we had myriad tornado warnings yesterday in florida. every little one that spins up because they're so quick -- you heard her say it, it came out of nowhere. that's one thing to be mindful of in south-southwestern florida and northern florida. th

in st. lucie county, you have veterans living in the woods.hat should not be the case in the united states of america. host: the conservative platform event is looking at policies and innovations to help the entrepreneurial spirit in the african american community and economic development. he says tax breaks mean white people move in and muscle out existing black businesses. guest: how can we encourage the residents to start their own businesses? my church used to be king's supermarket. it is gone. it hired people locally. there was a sense of ownership in the community. we did not allow bad people knock off king's and take money away. now you see individuals of different ethnic groups opening up businesses. they're not hiring from that committee. the avenue used to have doctors, lawyers, dentists. first citizens bank was one of the largest black-owned banks there. my mom worked on the top floor. those are the type of things we have to look if we do not corrected in the inner city, we are not going to correct it for the country. it has to be l

hillary clinton as they meet in st petersburg today to discuss syria the two powers are deeply divided on how the crisis in the middle east country should be resolved lucy coffin of has more from st petersburg. if the two sides if rove and hillary clinton can come to some sort of position tonight in the meeting in st petersburg this really could drastically change the future of international action as it pertains to the syrian crisis the problem is that both sides have fundamentally different approaches to how we need to deal with this the u.s. has been pushing for a so-called yemeni style transition plan the first and foremost focuses on getting president bashar al assad out of office out of syria now the russian position has been that you know there's no need to have some sort of a backroom deal by world powers that doesn't include the actual syrians themselves this is a crisis that the country is undergoing syrians in need to get together and find some sort of a transition that works for them this should not be dictated by outside foreign powers the problem is that all of these sort of over these two to opposing sides are really going to come head to

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clinton however have had a chance to discuss the issue before the main talks artie's lucy covenant has more now from st petersburg where they were meeting. i just walked out of the hotel behind me where the secretary of state hillary clinton and sergei lavrov have walked in literally moments ago closed doors behind them and sat down finally for face to face talks to try to iron out the very very deep divide between the two countries that really could make or break the negotiations tomorrow in geneva on the. sides to come to some sort of an agreement this means that this could really be an international turning point for how the syrian crisis will develop unfortunately the positions between the two countries are quite vast and it hasn't really seemed to based on the way into his comments throughout the weekend today that the u.s. has made any sort of steps towards changing its positions the russians have not come out with any sort of official statements as of yet the sergey lavrov did take to twitter through the foreign ministry's official twitter feed calling for a push for some sort of a ceasefire agr