and early winter storm chills the entire united states. buffalonew york, experiences an epic 7 feet of snowfall. several deaths were blamed on the weather. it was quite the year for mother nature. hurricanes and heat waves floods and fires 2014 had it all. as we head into 215 stay safe, dry, warm or cool. i'm meteorologist maria molino fox news. >>> gosh buffalo got hit march. did you get something thing for gift cards from stores you don't really like? coming up, spend it at wal*mart. how that retail giant could be helping you to type the perfect gift of what you really need. plus two vietnam war buddies separated sin the battlefield. tonight they've been reunited. why these two fri ♪ >> all right. it took two tries but a 16 store building in crime mia is finally no more. that attempt number one. imploded today. the first attempt failed friday causing the building to tilt to the side but them they got to do it all over again. the construction started on the building back in 2013 but was never completed and now it is no more. >>> retail giant wal*

. >>> early winter storm chills thentire united states. buffaloew york experiences an epic 7 feet of snowfall. several deaths were blame on the weather. it was quite the year for mother nature. hurricanes and heat waves, floods and fires, 2014 had it all. as we head 2015, stay safe, dry, warm or cool. i'm meteorologist maria molina. fox news. >> stay dry, warm or cool. >> we have it cover. just be safe no matter what. >> thank you kerry. you'd think it would be very busy weather wise outside right now as we start to really move through winter. it's not especially in the northeast we've enjoyed a quiet couple of days. it's different as you head back towards the west. there's snow mainly from the eastern planes down through the front range denver, boulder you guys all society white doctors m snow showers starting to move into parts of cap can, nebraska back home here just clouds streaming into southwest pennsylvania. going to enjoy a nice clear night. high temperatures today hit 50 in philly. 51 will morning ton. 51 in atlantic city. 50 in millville

united states. these were buffalo, savannah. we're talking really eastern western borders at that time. and that was the united states. so the muskogee nations and the haudenosaunee had similar goals. they wanted it as a matter of necessity as well as inclination. they wanted somebody to be in charge of stopping the aggressiveness and the lawlessness of the people who were flooding into their lands from europe. and these were europeans and new americans, settlers of all kinds, who were encroaching on the native lands. so they wanted that to stop. and they wanted the agreement strictly with the united states. hence, nation to nation. that's the way the law developed at that time in the 1790s. and that's the way the law is today. it's still nation to nation. our ancestors really knew these presidents. really knew washington and lincoln and other notable and in many cases, rightly so beloved people. the muskogee delegates when they arrived by canoe and over land, but mostly by canoe from savannah, they docked at the bottom of manhattan and were greeted with 300 white men dressed like indian

united states. if you take that line and run it across the country, you take that parallel, you end up in buffalo. that means that the united states would have lost maine, vermont, new hampshire, and all of northern new york. that way the british would have had control of the southern shore of the great lakes. that's what they were after, but plattsburgh put a stop to that. the british army is not in the united states. the british army is back in canada. so when the treaty is signed on christmas eve in 1814, the statue quo is what we see today. we're five miles north of plattsburgh, new york. it was here this whole battle began. but let me give you a bit of background first. when the war with napoleon ended in the spring of 1814, the british had a problem, we wellington wanted to keep this victorious army in attack, but no one saw this vision. when the army returned to england, it would probably be disbanded. when the ogre goes away, there's no need for a democratic society to fund a very expensive army, and they would just simply go away. so in order to keep them, he went to lord bathhurst, the se

united states. and if you take that line and you run it across the country. you take that parallel, you end up in buffalo. that means the united states would've lost maine, vermont, new hampshire, and all of northern new york. that way the british would've had control of the southern shore of the great lakes. and that's what they were after. but plattsburg put a stop to that. the british army is not in the united states. the british army is back in canada. and so when the treaty was signed on christmas eve 1814, the status quo is what we see today. >> we're 5 miles north of plattsburg, new york. looking up the road at the american/canadian border. it was here this whole battle of plattsburg began. let me give you a little bit of background first. when the war with napoleon ended in the spring of 1814, the british had a problem. wellington wanted to keep this victorious army intact because he thought he needed it again and he will need it again in 1815. he was right. and if he left alone, when the army returned to england, it would probably be disbanded. you know, because when the ogre goes away, then the

kind of going on and that, actually, the epicenter of debt collection in general in the united states was buffalo, or it was one of the big hubs. so i had in my head that i was going to do a story actually from the collector's perspective and what's it like to collect debt, what are the challenges you face, what's your life like. so i pitched the story to the new yorker just kind of bare bones saying what do you think about this, i'm from buffalo, i could probably get somebody to talk to me. my editor said, great, 5,000 words, when can you get me copy? >> and that's a look at some of amazon's top books for 2014. to link to the full list and see other publication selections, visit booktv.org. >> but you can see in the visual representation of wonder woman that same influence; that is, the influence of suffrage and feminism and the birth control movement. here on the left is a panel of wonder woman doing what always she's doing which is trying to escape from bonds of chains which was because she's an -- [inaudible] for the emancipated woman. she has to emancipate herself in every story, so in order

this kind of going on and that at the epicenter of the debt collection in general in the united states was buffalo that i was going to do a story actually from the collector's perspective what is it like to collect debt and what is your life like. so i pitched the story to the new yorker, just kind of bare bones saying what you think about this command i could probably get somebody to talk to me and that is 5,000 words when can you get me a copy. >> that is a look at the top books of 2014. for a link to the fullest and to see other publication selections from it is that the booktv website, booktv.org. >> host: arthur brooks, one of her favorite people in the biggest influences, charles murray. >> guest: a scholar at the american enterprise institute who has written voluminously on so many different topics. he wrote the first book about welfare reform. charles murray's work ended up going back to, you know, i think that we talked about this quite a lot. the book is called losing ground. it is written in 1984, and it basically made this one profound point. charles murray said the problem in the welf

united states during world war ii. so there is tremendous expansion. >> what if they fly? i actually voted down. what is the rooster buffalo? >> the brewster f2 way was a prewar fighter, fairly significant enabling the haitian history. it went operational in 1939 as the navy and marine corps aviation's first monoplane fighter is opposed to the two wing biplanes previously. it's only combat in american surveys was a disaster situation at the battle of midway in june 1942. fortunately, the airplane with a much more successful wildcat remains the marine corps' primary fighter well into 1943. in the overall study i include about marine corps fighter operations in world war ii remain focused there was the guadalcanal campaign which lasted for six months and 42, 43 and that is where you see the big-name starting to emerge. joe foss, malay friend marion carr, john l. smith who were extremely successful with the wildcat, even though it was technically inferior to the japanese fighters. >> the f6 hellcat in the seven tiger cat. >> in the air which became the iconic airplane of world war ii. >> which was made by god. to finish up her

united states. a few months later we were moving to upstate new york. >> when he came to buffalo, people helped himou get a job and make some money and they thought it was cool but it was awful. >> it is hot and it will not stop if you are injured. >> my dad hated the steel. and my dad and his brother opened a restaurant. >> it used to be blitzer delicatessen. >> this is the deli. i used to pack eggs here. i would come in on sunday mornings and pack eggs. i would walk in over here -- guys, keep going. we're working, here. so this was where we used to pack the eggs. a lot of memories. blitzer's deli. my dad didn't like the deli business either. then one day he was talking to friends he knew from the concentration camp and they were buying land. >> they developed homes. >> and building homes for the gi's returning from the war. >> my dad built us this house. this is the one of the first he built when he became a builder. that was my house. somebody is living there. >> and it turns out he had a knack for home building and with a lot of help, he became a successful home-maker. >> i went to school here.