he had authority over the railroads. this had been a controversial matter in the months leading up to the campaign. he had banned all civilian traffic on some of the main railroads leading south out of nashville, and he had planned for the confederates to try and break the railroads by stockpiling rails and ties at various locations. he had crews of civilians, african-americans, who were employed as civilian laborers. engineers that could very quickly rebuild railroads, particularly bridges. as the confederates were treated, if you look on your map you can see confederates were treated across several rivers. they would always burn these bridges, and it was truly remarkable how quickly sherman's engineers and laborers could rebuild these huge wooden spans. so that's where the real mastery of logistics i think comes into play. one more. one more question over here. >> i'm from mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. general hood has been undergoing a bit of a reevaluation. >> right. >> recently. it seems to me that his plans once he t

but instead, because they raised prices and made it kind of inconvenient for the railroad, the railroad decided to build their own town, the town of billings. and billings basically prospered. coulson disappeared. >> about the only thing left of coulson is boot hill cemetery. >> this is the burying grounds of coulson. most people buried here died violently. there were murders, suicides, and accidents. they died with their boots on, so we call it "boot hill." >> meanwhile, back at billings... >> when the railroad came in, billings grew so quickly, one writer said "like mushrooms after a rain storm." it quickly took on the nickname the magic city. >> the town's history is dotted with a lot of colorful characters. for example, calamity jane. >> calamity was quite a character. she did all kinds of things no woman would do -- no lady, anyway. she rode astride, she could smoke, drink, and cuss with the best of the men. she drove ox teams like men did. so she did men's work. but she was a really interesting person in that she was an awfully good nurse and a whole lot of people really liked cal

the railroad bridge did not have a bed. it had railroad ties and these soldiers were being fired upon by these confederates had to run across a railroad with the water 40 feet below. a dramatic point of the battle. two vermont soldiers received the medal of honor further actions that day. we our standing were the over man to vermont men -- over man manned vermont men were and where they held off the confederates. the old train station was right behind us over here. and, in fact, these of the tracks the troops came down from baltimore. anyway, after the vermonters could not take it anymore, they fled down the track around the bend to the old railroad bridge over there. what you see in the back behind it which has been restored by the national park service to make it look how it looked during the battle. this is the battle portion of the battle of monocacy. you were hearing interstate 270 in the background. what was here then was cornfields and wheatfields. they were crisscrossed by farm offenses. -- fences. behind me, general

security guards kept people away from the site. >>> the next year by then 25 years after the railroad explosion a construction crew found another bomb. and as amber lee reported then, with each new discovery community members voiced concerns about where the next bomb might show up. >> reporter: a 250-pound bomb sits in this bunker in the small community of antelope near the railroad. when a load of dirt was dumped someone noticed an object that at first looked like a pipe but turned out to be a pipe. the bomb found yesterday and 11 others discovered last year had been buried here. a bomb squad blew up two in the rail yard. many people say they still don't understand why it was done so close to home. >> it scares you don't know what's going on. >> i was upset. we don't know no more damage. >> reporter: experts said they were satisfied this area had been cleared of any other bombs. but the people who live near by say they weren't surprised when they learned yet another bomb had been uncovered. >> i don't want my community to be known as the bomb yard basically. >> reporter: robert o'bri

. >> when harry arrived at the railroad bridge, no one was there. e waited with the sharp shooter in the backseat. and with fbi agents hiding in the woods nearby. >> you just sit there very quietly. you don't move and you listen. and you listen for any kind of footstep, any kind of noise, hoping that he might contact us. but thinking that he's probably within 100 yards of us watching with a rifle. >> after waiting for several hours, the fbi agents told harry to go home and await further word there. the next day at sunrise, the fbi performed a grid search of the drop site. and near the railroad underpass they found a second ransom note attached to a metal rod with a crepe paper flag. >> the rods we recognized as being rods that were used in filing cabinets, older filing cabinets that slid through the drawers of the filing cabinets from the front to the rear. >> but the sign wasn't easy to see, which is why harry missed it the night before. the second ransom note told harry to proceed to another location several miles from there where the fbi found a t

since the war of 1812, it had been referred to as the -- four railroads radiated from the city by 1860. the petersburg railroad which ran south to weldon, north

there will be a private detective hired by the railroad. and when plessy attempts to ride, they will arrest him. ok, so in june of 1892, he is going to come before the courts -- court of justice john howard ferguson. that is where we get the term in the name plessy versus ferguson. you know i do not do dates too much in this class, but there is one date i want you to remember. i want you to know when this goes to the supreme court. and that year is 1896. ok, so, between plessy's arrest and his trial, judge ferguson had already ruled on another case, and this was the case of daniel f. desdunes. he was also a member of that citizens committee and he could also pass for white. let me tell you about justice ferguson. he was also a carpetbagger. he was originally from massachusetts. he went south and stayed there. he married the daughter of a prominent new orleans attorney. this should seem familiar with another of your homework questions when we were talking about the differences, you know talking about john de forest and george washington cable

killed the night of august 21st, 2012, were elizabeth nass and rose mayr trespassing on the railroad trestle. they were there when a passing train derailed and buried them in tons of coal just before midnight. new documents include photos of a fractured rail and show drainage around the rail bed failing, trains running over mud. los angeles-based attorney ron goldman spoke via skype today. >> they knew there was trouble on this section of the track. they had installed a patch apparently on that section of the track. >> reporter: the ntsb also found inspections were up to date. the train was running below the speed limit. the crew was sober and paying attention. the brakes were working. still it was not enough to prevent tragedy. in ellicott city, maryland, scott broom, wusa9. >> in a written statement csx railroad cautioned the ntsb has not issued its final report. the company said its focus remains on safety and sympathy toward the families of the girls who died. >>> after criticizing the obama gornor martin o'malley catching some criticism of his own. last week o'malley spoke out ag

website put out a warning to residents online saying stay away from the north of the city from the railroad station area, which is only four or five miles from where i'm standing right now. in the meantime, the separatist movement here, credibility getting a blistering attack from one of the world leaders, when the leaders of one of the countries whose citizens died aboard malaysian slight 17 coming from the prime minister of australia who described the recovery and investigation effort in the crash zone, which is controlled by the separatist fighters. take a listen. >> there's no doubt that at the moment, the site is under the control of the russian backed rebels and given the almost certain culpability of the russian backed rebels in the downed aircraft, having those people in control of the site is like leaving criminals in control of a crime scene. >> reporter: criminals in control of the crime scene. now, the australian prime minister and other world leaders from countries like malaysia, the netherlands whose citizens died have been in direct communication with vladimir putin publicly

the railroad conrail, issued a statement saying it regrets what happened here in 2012 and takes seriously the recommendations by the ntsb. live in paulsboro, john rawlins, channel 6 "action news." >>> a has mat situation in northeast philadelphia today. firefighters were called to the allied tube and conduit corporation at 9:00. investigators say that a pot of zinc caught fire. they called for cleanup when the firefighters arrived. >>> a pair of delaware county parents are sentenced to two to four years behind bars forcing their children to live in squalor, they were arrested in october and police say their house was filled with trash and animal waste, and two of their malnourish malnourished daughters were placed in protective custody. >>> today is the an versz of a crime that shocked the region and paved the way for megan's law. it was this day in 1984 when megan kanka was raped and murdered. >> you think about it and want to cry. that is how bad it is. >> flank has been delivering mail here for 24 years, he remembered in 1994, 7-year-old megan kanka was waiting for a special delivery.

. >> i didn't know that that was a crime to cross over the railroad tracks because the whole neighborhood goes through that way, back and forth, back and forth. i e see grown folks going through that way all the time. >> a police officer saw jones cut through the hole and cited him. when he discovered jones was on parole, he arrested him. >> out of all these years that i was on drugs, i was finally clean, doing good, and all of a sudden, bam, back in jail. i hurt my mama again, you know. >> the trespassing charges were quickly dropped but because he was on parole at the time of the arrest he had to remain in jail until the parole board completed its own investigation. we joined him on the morning of his hearing. >> on the day that he was going to his hearing he was very nervous and rightfully so because he was going to find out if he was going to go back to prison for a few years or back out on the street. >> mr. jones, you can come on in. >> at the hearing jones would again be confronted by his arresting officer who said his trespassing sliegs might not be as minor as it seems. >> the ma

. >> the railroad industry petitioned the federal government three years ago to raise standard. waiting. >> we asked to have the dot 1-11 phased out of the fleet, or retro fitted. >> but the railroads are part of the equation. they own the rail lines, refineries owe the tanks. replacing or upgrading cars could cost billions. in a may 14th report submitted to the dot, a refinery lobby group defended the tankers writing: . >> in the face of the competing claims, senator heidi high camp of north dakota lashed out at industry representatives, appearing before a subcommittee. >> this is problematic. from a public stand point because the public expects we'll make fact-based decisions. >> the department of transportation tells al jazeera all options are on the table. a comprehensive oil by rail proposal is expected later this year, communities like this are not willing to wait. >> look at what your local laws are and execute d. don't stand down. it will take everyone in the nation to stand up, to make it happen, to stop it. >>> let's talk about what need to be done to improve safety. w

the family is now considering a lawsuit against csx railroad. reporter scott broom talked with their los angeles-based attorney via skype. >> they knew that there was trouble on this section of the track. they had installed a patch apparently on that section of the track. >> in a run statement csx railroad cautioned that the ntsb has not issued its final report. the company says its focus remains on safety and sympathy toward the families of the girls who died. >>> a bowie man convicted today of molesting an 11-year-old boy at a public pool. the victim now 14 testified michael brochu touched him several times over the summer of 2011. then last year he was also convicted of sexually abusing two other young boys. he's now serving a combined 81 years for those crimes. in this latest case he could face up to 30 years. he will be sentenced in september. >>> a woman accused of injecting a google executive with a lethal dose of heroin pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and prostitution today. 26-year-old alex tichelman will remain in jail, bail sent at

you can see a lake over there forming near the railroad tracks. if you come across this way, you can see where the road has buckled. the road here on rhode island avenue, you can see all of the dirt and debris that's in the street. rhode island avenue is a major commuter route. it comes up through

we operate 92 trains a day, and it's something people need to be aware of and careful with on the railroadracks. >> the temptation to walk on the tracks, they are quieter these days, and with the ear buds, you will not here it. >> we have operate a push-pull system so the locomotive is on the southern most end of the train, and if the train is going north, you will not hear the train until it's right on top of you. >> we have a video, an example of the pedestrian gate. the trains go by fast, so as we watch the video, i want to keep talking about the fact that these -- the train arm comes down for just a short amount of time. >> right. we are authorized by the federal railroad administration to operate our trains at 79 miles per hour. they do go that fast. if a train is not scheduled to stop at a station, it could be going as fast as 79 miles per hour. the train gates come down 29 seconds before the train enters the crossing. >> doesn't seem like a long time, and folks try to beat that. i just don't understand it. >> it's really a foolish thing to do. there's nothing more important than you

a tractor-trailer is slowly crossing the railroad tracks when a freight train plows right into it. >> the train hit the trailer pretty much dead center in the middle of the trailer. >> the train shears off the rear axle. >> it went through the air like a frisbee. stuff was going everywhere. >> the massive collision is caught on camera by benjamin, who also videotapes trains as a hobby. he inherited his love of trains from his father who, in turn, got it from his dad. >> when i was small, my father and grandfather would take me to the train tracks in greensboro and once he started getting a little bigger and we started going outside the tracks and watching trains and he got interested and started taking pictures of them. >> on the day of the collision, father and son head to one of their favorite spots to train watch. a railroad crossing by a recycling transfer station. while dad waits in the car, the young train buff walks to the other side of the tracks and starts recording a tractor-trailer that stops right in the middle of the crossing. as the gates start to close, he quickly reali

the bridge was allowed to stand. railroads were allowed to reshape the nation. this is a detective book, from his work as a labor spy. he would pay with marked bills. among some, it is what they are known for. unfolding events changed the future. shortly after abraham lincoln's election in 1860, he received a request to investigate secessionist threats to destroy the bridges between washington dc and new york city. he took a group of operatives to maryland. pinkerton was posing as a stockbroker and took an office next to a secessionist. he learned of a group had a plan to assassinate lincoln as he passed through baltimore. at the time, the way it was set up was lincoln would arrive on one train in baltimore and have to cross the city openly in a carriage to get to the train take him to d.c. which now seems like a horrible idea. in baltimore, which was split on the issue of secession, this was a horrible idea. webster went to maryland with an operative posing as his wife. he joined a local militia in learned that they had similar plans to assassinate lincoln. bec

behinded to find those an attempt to burn down the rock island railroad bridge. i would like to speak to you about the latter of these two cases. robbingory of grave dates back to the 19th century. medical schools needed cadavers to study, antiquated laws left them unable to obtain the body they need. turned tohools often resurrection rests -- resurrection rests -- resurrectionists who were grave robbers. he bypassed the city sexton, the man in charge of the cemetery. in this role he had some legal powers, which gave him the power to arrest people. this might explain why and said of going to the police, the city alderme went to pinkertonn's agency. pinkertonerton -- assigned timothy webster to leave the surveillance. they staked it out and found nothing. on november 5, he only had four operatives available. they arrived at 10:00 on an unusually dark knight. -- night. between 11:30 and midnight, a body was seen traveling away. two of the operatives -- one of whom was most likely webster, but we don't really know -- to two operatives follow the buggy at a distance t

. >> when harry arrived at the railroad bridge, no one was there. ed with the sharp shooter in the backseat. and with fbi agents hiding in the woods nearby. >> you just sit there very quietly. you don't move and you listen. and you listen for any kind of footstep, any kind of noise, hoping that he might contact us. but thinking that he's probably within 100 yards of us watching with a rifle. >> after waiting for several hours, the fbi agents told harry to go home and await further word there. the next day at sunrise, the fbi performed a grid search of the drop site. and neither railroad underpass they found a second ransom note attached to a metal rod with a crepe paper flag. >> the rods we recognized as being rods that were used in filing cabinets, older filing cabinets that slid through the drawers of the filing cabinets from the front to the rear. >> but the sign wasn't easy to see, which is why harry missed it the night before. the second ransom note told harry to proceed to another location several miles from there where the fbi found a third no

the august 2012 crash killed two people on the railroad bridge. the national transportation safety board says it began with a track break. nearly two dozen train cars left the tracks, crushing the scene. signs now limit access to the area. to --terstates northbound interstate lanes northbound to springfield are open again. they were close this morning due to a tractor-trailer crash. the wreck was cleared just before 11:00. no word on the condition of the truck driver. world this noon, investigators say it is too early to know what caused a deadly subway derailment in moscow. at least 20 people died and more than 150 were hurt. the crash happened during morning rush hour inside the subway station. investigators initially thought a power surge caused the derailment. asy have ruled out terrorism a cause. another day of growing tension in gaza. this comes after the islamic group hamas rejected a cease-fire deal opposed by egypt and accepted by israel. >> so much for that cease fire just six hours after it agreed to an egyptian proposal to stop attacks,

pacific american heritage sponsored by the department of interior as well an ebit horning the chinese railroad worker by the department of labor with the secretary sally jewel [speaker not understood] gave keynote presentations. my organization, however, john jang performances, used to be on the grants for the arts roster of arts organizations. after a few years of being on the grants for the arts roster, my organization was forced out under a dubious and arbitrary standard that was not even written in the grants for the arts [speaker not understood]. when my organization was on the roster, we usually received funding support of $5,000. a one-year grant of $5,000 from grants for the arts is well below the minimum funding level to sustain an organization. grants for the arts has created an arts apartheid system that needs to be dismantled and replaced by the vision of cultural equity policy and practice of the san francisco arts commission. thank you very much. (applause) >>> hi, my name is [speaker not understood]. impart of the -- i represent the young artists here in san francisco. i run a d

. >> his dad is an engineer. 38 years on the railroad. ther, she's just like the rest of us mothers in springfield or any other american town. and his sister patricia, she's about as pretty as they come. >> i'll say so. >>. >> good luck. god bless you, son. >> suddenly from behind the clouds, the japs attack. ♪ >> yes, this really happened. ♪ >> warships reached the fleet. >> then suddenly, the trap is sprung. navy planes from the decks of our carriers. army bombers, marines, under destruction over 300 miles. >> the invasion forces were hit and hit and hit again. men and women of america, here come your neighbor's sons, home from the day's work. you want to meet them. there's jimmy fetch, seven meatballs on his plane. >> how many more today, skipper? ♪ >> back at midway, liberate the neighbors. >> just as free as they ever were. ♪ >> the battle of midway is over. our front yard is safe, but a big job is still to be done. day after day, planes search for survivors. every tiny coral reef, every distant mile of sea. flew to the last drop of g

asked the dot 111 either aggressively phased out of the fleet or retrofitted. >> reporter: but the railroadsare just only part of the equation. while they own the rail lines oil refineries owned most tank leaks. with 70,000 cars, replacing the cars could cost billions. a refinery lobbying group defended the tankers writing even the older dot 111s are built with a wide level of safety relative to the pressures that rail tanks may experience when transporting bakken crude oil. >> this is very problematic. from a public standpoint because the public except that we're going to make decisions and they're going to be fact-based. >> reporter: for now it tells al jazeera that all options remain on the table. own though the proposal is expected later this year, communities are not willing to wait. look at what your local laws are and execute it, and don't stand down. it will take everyone in this nation to stand up together to make this happen to stop it. >> let's talk now about what needs to be done to improve safety in the nation's rail lines with the former managing director the safety board and a

the railroad company said the women had been identified by police and could face criminal trespassing charges. an update in the redskins name debate. hillary clinton talked about the issue and said the team should change its name. during an interview with fusion, a cable network, the former secretary of state said that she thinks the name is insensitive. think that it is insensitive and there is no reason for it to continue as the name of the team in our nation's capital. i would love to see the owners think hard about this. >> when asked for any suggestions for future names, clinton says she has not thought about it that much. letter senators signed a this summer urging the team to change its name. a time-honored tradition is underway today. .he annual swim of wild horses this is some of the video from last year's event. thousands of video -- visitors come out to watch. the money raised benefits the volunteered fire company. those are two of the hardest names to say erie it now in place in virginia. but it should be easy for you. for me. >> but it is a very cool thing to see. >> very

the petersburg railroad which ran south to weldon, north carolina. the richmond in petersburg, obviously connecting those two places. the south side which ran from city point, modern day hopewell, virginia, through petersburg, to lynchburg. and the norfolk and petersburg. in addition to petersburg's railroads, the city possessed four cotton factories, three flour mills, four iron foundries and three planing mills. the discussion we were just having about the importance of places are going to be cranking out supplies and food for the confederacy throughout the war. in addition to that industrial activity, the confederacy operated several wartime plants within or near the city. still functioning in the summer of 1864. including lead works, artificial bids to obtain gun powder. a wartime blockade, getting back to the interests in the blockade, had created even greater importance for the petersburg railroad because at weldon, a separate railroad company, weldon in wilmington operated connecting petersburg with european-ran goods through the blockade there

homers off chavez 6-3 astros two batters later matt dominguez hits a solo shot off dan otero onlt the railroad tracks abouve the bleachers here comes the train 7-3 astros final: 7-3 a's angels idle a's 1 ½ games up in the a.l. west craig gentry was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a broken hand his replacement billy burns went 0- for-1 as a pinch-hitter curry & thompson team usa camp the splash brothers stephen curry and klay thompson with coach steve kerr looking on. in las vegas at the team usa training camp in preparation for the fiba basketball world cup which tips off a little more than a month from now in spain curry and thompson are part of a group of 19 players vying to represent the usa of course there is a lot of kevin love trade talk concerning thompson which he addressed this weekend by saying he hoped to remain a warrior but here's curry on the taining > > the best part of the week is ever won trying to learn how to work as a team and be better. > > they say until he finds out he is going to be traded he does not want to risk injury. sorvino williams with good news . usuall

. >>> two indiana women likely will face criminal charges after this close call on the railroad tracksred on camera with the conductor slamming on the brakes and blowing the horn. they dove beneath the train managing to survive by laying down between the rails as a train passed over them. the space only about 10 inches high. the video was released by advocacy groups trying to warn people about the dangers of trespassing on train tracks. >>> another shocking sight. this one caught on camera in virginia. a bus driver caught using his ipad behind the wheel. the bus was taking families to kings dominion when a passenger spotted the driver with a tablet in hand. he could be seen taking his eyes off the road and taking his hands off the steering wheel to fiddle with the screen. >>> tomming our health headlines this morning, a stern warning from the surgeon general about skin and sun. with skin cancer on the rise he's urging americans to reduce indoor tanning and use one ounce of sunscreen for every two hours outside. his call to action, an effort to prevent some of the nearly 5 million cases

south of it, the railroad system was dead. t the german had to keep the supplies moving, still had highways. he took to the roads so we took to the roads. this is what ingermans fear most. we don't blame them. this is the way ronald got it. he isn't the only one. when you clobber a highway, you burn plenty of ammo. cyclic rate, 800 rounds a minute. you have eight guns, 106 bullets a second. rockets. those aren't just trucks and germans. you're stopping ammunition before it's piled on the fifth army front. and you're doing it 200 miles behind that front. in the weeks that follow, from corsica to italy was like a trip to the corner drugstore. you could do it in your sleep. >> we averaged eight, nine missions a day at the 57th. the french flew about as many. the 86th over in italy. the 79th next door. it was good to look up and watch them go by. but there were other things. there were those pillars of smoke. never knew when you would see one. that's a wreck. a p-47 cooking, and there's a man in it. when they hit like this, there's

ackley dumped her body a mile away in a field near the railroad tracks unaware he left more metal shavingshere. he also left another calling card. an empty pack of his favorite brand of cigarettes, the same brand he left in his mother-in-law's bathroom. but what was the motive for stephanie dittrick's murder? >> by all accounts gary ackley had a big mouth. >> prosecutors think in a moment of weakness, ackley told stephanie that he killed arlene. prosecutors found a witness who saw ackley and stephanie camping together on the fourth of july weekend. prosecutors believe ackley killed his childhood friend in order to silence her, burying her body in a shallow grave. again, leaving the tell-tale metal fragments behind. when he disposed of stephanie's personal items, he left his fingerprint on the shopping bag. >> i don't think there's anything i could say that would bother him because someone that can kill their girlfriend's mom and their kids' grandma is untouchable emotionally. so i wouldn't even try. >> a year after the crimes, gary ackley was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder

the families of both girls are still deciding whether to sue the railroad for negligence. >>> the prosecution's star witness in the federal corruption trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and former first lady, his wife, maureen, differed damaging testimony today. peggy fox joins us live from richmond. what did he say about all the gifts he was giving? >> reporter: andrea, we heard a lot about the rolex watch that he bought for former governor bob mcdonnell. today every jury member got to hold that $7,000 watch and examine it. in fact, one juror dropped it and picked it up and said it's still working. i do believe it's real. jonnie williams on the stand today. here he is walking into court. on the stand today he said he bought that watch at malibu jewelries. he -- jewelers. he said he regrets buying it. he said it was a bad business decision. he said, quote, i made a mistake when i bought it. he said maureen mcdonnell asked him to buy the rolex and suggested the engraving which reads "robert f. mcdonnell, 71st governor of virginia." he said, quote, i should not have had to buy things

we all looked over from the pool, over towards the railroad. d the biggest ball of flame i've seen in my life. >> as a precaution, nearby residents were evacuated until the fire was put out. one of the trains had residue of ethanol, which can be toxic around flames. crews hope to reopen the tracks later today. >>> tour buses for two classic rock bands went up in flames in a philadelphia parking lot. the two buses belonged to styx and foreigner. the fire started of one of them and spread to the other. they were parked and unaccompanied at the time. the bands are going to perform in jersey tonight as scheduled. >>> a scary situation from a state park near houston. an alligator attacked an elderly man who was fishing there. the gator measured about eight feet long. it bit the man on the hand after he fell down when running away from it. luckily for him, a good samaritan came to the rescue. >> the alligator bit him in the hand. i was running. and i stopped and just ran back, pulled him up and ran with him. >> wildlife officials captured the animal a

south of it, the railroad system was dead. d highways. he took to the roads so we took to the roads. this is what ingermans fear most. we don't blame them. this is the way ronald got it. he isn't the only one. when you clobber a highway, you burn plenty of ammo. cyclic rate, 800 rounds a minute. you have eight guns, 106 bullets a second. rockets. those aren't just trucks and germans. you're stopping ammunition before it's piled on the fifth army front. and you're doing it 200 miles behind that front. in the weeks that follow, from corsica to italy was like a trip to the corner drugstore. you could do it in your sleep. >> we averaged eight, nine missions a day at the 57th. the french flew about as many. the 86th over in italy. the 79th next door. it was good to look up and watch them go by. but there were other things. there were those pillars of smoke. never knew when you would see one. that's a wreck. a p-47 cooking, and there's a man in it. when they hit like this, there's nothing to do but let them burn and stay clear of the

union would rather jam kids in the classroom and layoff their own people and trapped the kids to the railroad tracks to use mayor nutter's analogy, they would rather do that than do the same thing. the fact of the matter the city on debt service is spending 5 cents, 10, 12 years ago, they are spending 20 cents. this can't go on forever. by the way have you heard about detroit? >> this is unsustainable, the blue mobile has collapsed. the places that will become boston will 0 figure out out how to fix it. >> matt you used the word enjoyable because the republicans have the house and the senate. the governor had a difficult time, the communication, about the whams you give to get. you give to get. and that's not happening, people are saying okay that's how you want to play it, this is where i'm at. >> here's reality when you got unemployment in pennsylvania was almost 8%, it's 5.6%. compared to new jersey, it's 20% higher unemployment in new jersey, 6.8. there's a lot of things that people need to -- and hopefully the numbers will get out. >> the franklin and marshall poll released 502 registere

the railroad car maker upped the forecast after it announced better than expected quarterly resultings thanks to an increase in deliveries. the stock jumped 12% to $64.61. >>> shutter fly shares soared when the online photo sharing service is putting itself up for sale. they are working with a boutique investment bank catalyst partners. the stock jumped 15% to $50 a share. >>> and rack space is taking a different path. this cloud service provider is reportedly considering taking itself private and in talks with a private equity firm to fund the deal. the option is said to have come amid acquisition bids to the company. shares rose more than 6% to $35.88. >>> the high cost of prescription drugs in the u.s. caused surprising and potentially ris ky side effects with more americans buying drugs outside the boarders. is it worth the risk to play a prescription roulette? scott cohn has more on this troubling story. >> it's not a clear cut case, bill. the drug company says part of what you're paying for is safety, which doesn't explain the low prices in other parts of the world. the alternati

young woman drove her car into standing water on west high street near the railroad overpass. walk out, and had to carry the woman to dry land. she was not injured. however, her car did suffer some water damage. >>> and some storm damage in south jersey, as well to tell but. >> this large tree fell right through the roof of this house in medford, burlington county. it came to rest in a bedroom but fortunately no one was injured. crews are taking a look at the damage, to see if the structure is stable, more on the traffic and weather together. >> specially scary considering so much of that stormy weather came through, when many of us were in fact trying to sleep last night. and i say that certainly that we were just trying to sleep, because some of the storms were so loud. i'm sure a loft us got woken up several times. 07 degrees the current temperature, start things off with quick check on live neighborhood network, still damp out here, weaver seen the worse of the storms thankfully long since retreat out of reading and west lawn, and really everywhere else, you can see retrea

the railroads got better. and the states now know what the constraints are, established by this body, very limited on their ability to do centralized assessments on the railroads. we saw it in something called public law 86-272 regarding income tax, a very narrow exemption to those sovereign rights. and, yes, the internet tax freedom act is an exercise of this body's commerce clause responsibility to take a look at what's in the best interest of moving forward. but let's not forget what we are doing is a very interesting balancing authority, very interesting balance responsibility to improve interstate commerce. and so when my distinguished colleague suggests that this body is imposing any tax, that clearly is a misstatement of the facts today. there is no locality, there is no organization -- state organization or state body that is required to impose any tax on the internet or required to impose any tax on sales tax. and so, yes, i believe we too need to address the internet tax moratorium which expires on no

the railroads were poorly important to help bring more business and people to des moines. ut the equitable about became a major insurance company, and when it was sold to ing, it was sold for $2.2 billion in 1997. so it really a crude great value over the years. des moines but not be the way it is without the hubbell business influence but also the hubbell's philanthropic efforts. the hubbell's have given millions and millions of dollars throughout the city. i think one of the things that's so impressive with a hubbell's is the families continued to hand the business down throughout generations. businesses are very difficult to continue been one or two generations and the hubbell's have done it for four or five generations. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to des moines and the many other cities visited by our local content vehicle go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> next on booktv, jo becker talk about the history of the fight for marriage equality in the tiny. this is about an hour and 10 minutes. >> good morning. a lot of movies so we can start of the late.

defending plans to take a family vacation to italy although the pending railroad strike is three days away. unions and the transportation authority were talking through the night in attempt to reach a deal. 300,000 commuters ride the system each day connecting long island and new york city. deblasio says he leaves in ten days and there's plans in place and will be in constant contact with the commission. the colbert report makes fun. >> are you sending in the pinkertons to give him a test of the daddy warbucks. >> the long island railroad is under the jurisdiction of cuomo. working hard -- >> not my problem. not my problem. bring me the bowl, bring me the bowl that i may wash my hands. >> hopeful they get to a resolution. >> it's the longest trip for a new york city mayor in recent memory. still ahead, a big night for sports, most memorable moments from last night's aawards, a touching speech from michael sam. plus -- >> the looming crisis is clear. we can no longer stand around and say it's not a problem. >>> chris christie hollywood with the effort to fix new jersey's broken pension