. >> we don't know what was in the mind of alexis when he went in suburban washington and lorton, virginiamiautomatic weapon. he could not if he wanted to bought that or bought the handguns because of restrictions on residency. >> there were more incidents in his past that surely should have been flagged. he surely shouldn't have walked out of their armed. what we saw in chicago shows other side of day to day violence, 33 of us killed by a gun every single day. it really shows this is a problem that affects people from all parts of the country. it's something the vast majority of us want solutions for. we have bills sitting on desks that can address it. once we get the public to keep it going, coordinate, organize, focus, elected officials will follow. surely a matter of time. >> i keep thinking d.c. has gun laws but we are victim to everything that comes into this city as new york city and other major cities, as is chicago. i keep thinking of the woman whose husband died monday and lost her teenager son four years earlier to random gun violence walking home. >> it's alarming when you know

in about 40 minutes, president obama talks about healthcare at a community college in suburban washington>> on the next "washington journal," we will discuss the continual congressional debate on federal spending, and defining the healthcare law at a possible government shutdown. you can call in with your questions to senator tom coburn of oklahoma. "washington journal" is live on c-span everyday day at 7 a.m. eastern. we bring public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings and conferences. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] we are funded by your local cable and satellite provider. now you can watch us in hd. the houses of congress are prepared to move ahead on a bill that will potentially defund the government after september 30. the bill is expected to pass and be sent back to the house without a provision defunding the healthcare law. the house could take up the bill as early as noon on saturday. members of the house lead

man: in our company, washington suburban sanitary commission, we had 479 water main breaks in february -- the most ever, for any february. man: this 10-inch water main in willard park is 73 years old. man: at wssc, we're having a year of record -- a ramp up slope of water main breaks that soon is going to reach exponential. man: the damage has been done. and this is the culprit. brunhart: today, 25% of our 5,500 miles of underground water pipes has reached the end of useful life. by the year 2020, 85% will have reached the end of useful life. woman: what to do? wssc is working on that costly problem right now. brunhart: it's not only true here, but it's true throughout our nation. narrator: across the united states, cities and towns are facing the challenge of aging and outdated drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure. it's a national problem. but it needs to be approached system by system. allbee: let's frame the systems in terms of the proper context. we have around 16,000 wastewater systems. we don't have a single wastewater system -- we have 16,000 of them. we hav

world keep promises. >>> the president has just been introduced to this crowd in suburban maryland right outside washingtonjust introduced the president. he's going to be speaking a bit longer than we originally thought, probably 30 or 35 minutes, maybe 45 minutes. he's got a lot to explain as far as obama care is concerned, what it means, what it doesn't mean. there's a lot of noise out there. the president's going to try from his perspective to clarify. >> hello, pgcc! it's good to be back in pg county. give it up for one of the hardest working, most effective governors in the country, governor martin o'malley. well, it is great to be with all of you here today. i love you back. we also have a few folks who work so hard on behalf of the people of maryland every single day, senator ben cardin is here. congressman steny hoyer is here. and congresswoman donna edwards is here. and all of you are here. you know, sometimes you just need to escape beltway politics for a little bit, even if you're just a mile or two outside the beltway. now, i know that a lot of you have seen some of the antics going on in congr

just outside washington, d.c., a man is shot dead at a bustling suburban grocery store. >> an unusual thing to be happening right around dinner, broad daylight, really, and it seemed like it possibly came from a rifle. the police had no idea what the motive was. and they could not tell from the crime scene where the shot had come from. >> what appears to be a random crime in this washington, d.c., suburb is only the beginning. the next day, terror takes hold. >> 911 emergency. >> this guy's lawn mower did something, man. it chopped him off. he's bleeding real bad. >> around 7:30 this morning, a man was riding a lawnmower in the 11400 block. he was just doing his job, cutting grass. >> the victim is identified as 39-year-old james "sonny" buchanan. he also ran a small landscaping business. that is what he was doing here today when he lost his life. >> it started out early in the morning. sonny buchanan was mowing a lawn, suddenly a loud boom and he fell to the ground. and someone who saw it thought that maybe the lawnmower had backfired. >> authorities and residents wonder who would be

the second born, ronald wright, works as a cook in a suburban maryland restaurant and lives in an abandoned house in southeast washington. he's both a heroin and crack addict, a criminal recidivist. the third born, alvin, just recently became a station master in the metro rail system, but had been before that a metro bus driver since 1980. and then the one that follows alvin, richard cunningham, he was a couple of years ago shipped off to an in-patient drug treatment facility in denver, colorado, but violated parole and is now back in the dc prison system at the central prison in lorton, virginia. and after richard is eric. eric works for the us park service, which he does today, and lives in suburban maryland. after eric is patty. patty is in prison. i just recently saw her. and she has now moved in she was hiv positive when she was arrested in connection with a murder in december of 1992. but she's now moved into full blown aids. every day is a question of whether or not she can get out of bed, she is at times, so weak and so ill. c-span: how old is she now? >> guest: she was born in 1958, and this is... thirty-six. c

washington post. he and the president >> the mother of the man wanted for three murders tells wgn that person is innocent. has been on the run since sunday. police in suburban atlanta said police shot and killed a woman. the woman was letting him and his wife stay in the home. the woman's boyfriend survived the shooting and called 11. the looks really bad. i do not believe that my son did this. i just want to say to him that he needs to turn himself in. police said he could be going back home to chicago where he graduated from and what high-school. an investigation is underway and happen to us today in southeastern spain. the baby's mother an american woman was traveling. >> the seventh person is confirmed thdead. >> as of those on accounted for believe to be alive but failed to check in with reporters. more than 9 in. of rain a week ago leading to flash floods that turned canyons into funnels. accused of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to doctors and exchange for patient referrals and a prisoner is over 40 years. the award splits the difference in the city's 7.5 all for. the union had sought. the ruling might require new retirees to pay the cost of

you can't walk through any mall in suburban and not have -- washington and not have christian convictionsssaulted. so the church has had to rediscover what its essence always has been. it's a missionary enterprise. and that mission begins inside the church with the further conversion of the people of the church, and it extends outside the church, as pope benedict vxi put it, by offering people the possibility of a friendship with jesus christ. >> host: but where does the word -- somebody thinks of evangelical, they think of -- >> guest: protestant. >> host: they think of protestant, but they also think of maybe a little more fervent. >> guest: yeah. well, there's nothing wrong with fervor. the word evangelical, obviously, comes from the word for gospel. but talk about gospel-fettered catholicism is really to talk about catholicism. the popes of the past 35 years have used the term the new e advantagization, a new rediscovery of the church's missionary energy in the church's third millennia. i thought it would make a bit more sense and, frankly, be a bit more provocative rather than use th

washington. david schuster is looking into that. he's filling in for ali velshi at 7:00. who would be hit badly. >> reporter: literally tens of thousands of businesses in the suburban virginia, maryland area that rely on government contracts, and they stop on tuesday. some of them have started to put plans in place to layoff workers, furlough other employees. they're the first line that would get hit. but as this goes on you can start to see a possible economic impact in terms of investors, keep in mind, tony, back in the government shut down between newt gingrich and bill clinton that had a drag on the u.s. economy of $60 billion. if this goes on that long, if there is a government shutdown and it doesn't get solved that could put a fragile economy in peril. >> how could it impact the jobs? >> it could hurt the jobs picture. any time you take money out of the economy or furloughing workers and in this case they're not going to get paid until after if congress decides to pay them for the time they missed. but what happens is people stop pending. businesses become conservative, and they're worried about the economic picture. they start hoarding the money. they don't invest i

washington recently. we've had people who, who knows what their mental condition was, but they were loaded. guns. >> to me, that's another case about where cuccinelli was thinking about the audience, a suburbanience, this is fairfax county, northern virginia, where he was trying to explain it, and at the same time, not back down from his positions. >> because the rural areas are with him on that. >> the rural areas are with him. and the tradition in virginia has been that. but barack obama has been targeted by the nra in virginia. >> fast forward, chuck. does this mean when republicans write their platform for the next presidential election, no matter who it is, christie or rand paul, how are they going to deal with these issues? >> it depends. if it's rand paul and chris christie, rand paul is not exactly somebody who shares the evangelical fervor when it comes to marriage and abortion. he's more libertarian. there's a libertarian streak in him. actually, i think paul and christie -- >> i think he plays to the crowd. >> that may be. and that's going to be -- it depends on who writes the platform. >> the whole problem with politics, you have to buy the whole blue plate special. best reason t

washington, d.c. so that's the news that just came out. the reason we're here in new york city today, general motors unveiling the 2015 versions of the chevy suburban's cfo, dan hammond, coming up first on cnbc on the "fast money halftime report." don't miss what he has to say about a number of topics, including the possibility of a return of the dividend to general motors shareholders. >> mm, hello, nurse. thank you, phil. phil lebeau covering two beats. >>> during an interview yesterday, mark zuckerberg reversed his course on going public and said companies like twitter should not be afraid of that process. it brings us to this morning's "squawk on the street." if he says twitter shouldn't be afraid of an ipo, what should it be afraid of? tweet us @squawkstreet. we'll get more later this hour. [ female announcer ] it's time for the annual shareholders meeting. ♪ there'll be the usual presentations on research. and development. some new members of the team will be introduced. the chairman emeritus will distribute his usual wisdom. and you? well, you're the chief life officer. you just need the right professional to help you take charge. ♪ to help

president obama talked about the health care law in a speech at a community college in suburban washington. this is an hour. [cheers and applause] >> how are we doing prince georges county community college? [cheers and applause] you all look great. excited to meet the president? [cheers and applause] so my. thank you for coming out to give the president such a warm reception. thank you to charlene for her good work here. thank you to a great county executive. let's give it up for him. thank you to steny hoyer and our entire delegation from the great state of maryland, barbara mikulski we are very well represented. ladies and gentlemen, my fellow marylanders, progress is a choice. choice.tion is a whether we give you and your children a country of more or a country of less, these are all choices. that is why we have answer the president's call to do more and not less, to educate come in a they, rebuild. resultschieving better and faster job creation and upward economic mobility. there's one other call that the president has made to us. , we spent about six percent of our nations product on