in western massachusetts this is the aftermath of what the national weather service says was a microburst, which can cause damage like a tornado except the winds shoot out in virtually straight lines instead of spinning. in kentucky six tornadoes did in fact touch down throughout that state causing all sorts of damage to homes and businesses. >>> now we turn to our nbc news investigation. it's something a lot of parents and athletes are going to want to see. it's about artificial turf on the soccer fields and football fields that so many children play on all across our country. and the concern here, could the material used as a kind of granular synthetic dirt between the pieces of artificial grass be harmful? it starts with a soccer coach who noticed something about two of her players who developed cancer. and she learned of other young athletes with similar stories. nbc's stephanie gosk has been investigating the story for months and tonight has our exclusive report. >> reporter: for nearly 30 years soccer has been amy griffin's profession and passion. >> i love the highs and lows of spo

we cannot succeed, in that the advanced manufacturing initiative i described in western massachusetts, the credentials that people are getting are designed by the industry. they are with the input of the industry. and so, when you hire someone, you know what you're getting. that level of employer engagement is one of the lynchpins of our transformation. and the reason it is, is because too many employers were telling me that they were hiring folks, and they had a credential, but they didn't know what was behind it. now that they're actively engaged in the development of that credential, they got skin in the game. and they understand it. and, as a result, they can do so much more. >> union strength and influence continues to decline in this country. so have a number of factors related to worker security and satisfaction. how do we bring about -- how do we bring back protections and fair play and benefits -- sorry. how do we bring back protections and fair pay and benefits to workers in this area of corporate rights in diminishing worker esteem, according to this questioner? >> sure. we

the two of them were expected to face off this thursday on a debate in western massachusetts.were expected to, because late last week, martha cokely decided she would decline the invitation to that debate. her campaign pulled out of the debate citing a scheduling conflict. but that didn't mean it wouldn't happen. her declining would mean that her republican opponent will get an hour of free airtime by himself, a week and a half before the election all because martha cokely decided she had something better to do than attend the debate. republican charlie baker will be appearing on thursday with no opponent to debate. is that true or false? [ buzz ] >> it's now false. that story about charlie baker getting a whole hour of tv time to himself was correct when it ran. martha cokely did pull out of the debate citing a scheduling conflict. and that did mean that charlie baker was going to be on air for an hour, but we reached out to the cokely campaign and they declared that her schedule cleared up. and so she will debate this thursday. she will not cede an entire hour of airtime to

a couple inches of hateful around western massachusetts and connecticut over thursday afternoon.s this region of the united states, new york airport, 45 minutes. washington, d.c., upwards of two-plus hours at jfk because of the low visibility and strong storms. so something worth noting the next 24 hours in this region, guys. >> okay. >> certainly, thank you. >> okay. so baseball's kansas city royals are heading to the world series. they face the baltimore orioles. 2-1 they win the american league title. first time they've been to the playoffs in 29 year, since 1985. >> they will face the st. louis cardinals or the san francisco giants in baseball's championship showdown. giants lead their best of seven series 3-1. >> and giants will face the cardinals on thursday. if they win, they'll be off to the world series as well. but right now, the royals are on a roll. they can do no wrong. this is the end of the season when i actually get interested. >> well done. india may be known for its conservative tradition, but a new way to find love is gaining popularity. the app that's winning

she will appear at that western massachusetts debate at wwlp, channel 22, western mass on thursday of this week. that's in addition to the debate the two candidates had tonight. it's going to feature both of the candidates. so giving your opponent an uncontested solo show, lest you think that is unique to massachusetts democratic strategy, no, no, it also happened tonight, just a couple of hours ago, during a debate in a race for the senate seat that is virtually tied in a different state. watch. >> you're watching capital tonight. tom warner cable invited speaker tillis and kay hagan to participate. he did not meet poll criteria. senator hagan declined our invitation to appear. >> see the empty chair there? the moderator explained that his answers wouldn't be timed because nobody else needs to talk because the democratic incumbent senator, kay hagan, would not be attending that debate. so for you, voters, we present this hour-long conversation with just the republican candidate on tv for an hour, uncontested so we can tell you what he thinks without any time constraints and without a

look at that bulk, rolled on through western massachusetts and it is all sort of rotating down.e may still see remnant of that but i come bearing much nicer weather news down the road here. look at this open vast expensive drive weather in place off to the southwest. thinks courtesy of the large dome of high pressure which will take over and bring us really nice weather for a couple of days. so pollen report looks good for now. levels do actually start to climb a smidge with the ragweed over next couple days in part due to high pressure settling in and bringing us nice weather. we will be breezy tomorrow. note that is win too it is brightening up, we're warming up. weekend looks great. so does monday and tuesday right nlw, vittoria. >> thanks very much. >> we will start to warm up the russias well, things are heating up on i-95, schuylkill expressway and all the of the usual roads would you usually fine rush hour delays. lets take a look first at 95 traveling in the northbound direction it five a approaching street road. we are dealing with the disable vehicle situation. penndot

probably the highlight for me is, we shot for a month in western massachusetts in the middle of nowherehere in this town. so, they had put us in different little bed and breakfasts around this county and duvall and i were in this little gingerbread house on nine talkers, and my first night there, i'm walking down the hallway. his wife comes and introduces herself to me. would you like to talk to bobby? absolutely. so, she brings me into their bedroom and duvall is in bed. he is in bed with a few pillows, and i'm invited to sit at the foot of the bed, like his returning son home from war or something. >> jimmy: this is the first time you met him? >> yeah, it really was. i met him in bed. [ laughter ] and so, we just started talking and i had a million questions and he was super duper generous and so he was telling me all about "the god father" and we even got to "day's of thunder." i left, an hour and a half of chatting. i went to my room one room over and i said, i just had pillow talk with duvall. and then i thought, i could kill him. >> jimmy: what? >> it's just the two of us in this

the middle skilled many factoring initiative was born in western massachusetts. this is a joint venture of local manufacturing businesses community colleges, the workforce investment system, which includes federal, state, and local government working together. in our grantmaking, we were catalyzing partners like this in western massachusetts and in various growth sectors across the country. as a result, the father of twins who was stuck in a low-wage job cycle during the great recession, successfully completed a training program and is now a very highly valued and well compensated employee of steve's company. this was a win for steve, a win for dana and his family, and a win for america. in this example, it's not a one-off. we see this, and we are helping to build these partnerships in communities across the country. we are not simply tinkering with the workforce system. we are transforming it. just as president eisenhower built the interstate highway system, we are building a modernized refurbished skills superhighway that enables workers to get good jobs in bus

. >>> a powerful storm ripped through western massachusetts, knocking down hundreds of trees.hat took out power lines and blocked local roads. the national weather service says the town of east hampton was hit by a microburst which produced straight line winds up to 100 miles per hour. it spanned a mile long and quarter mile wide. >>> turning to the born in the usa series where we highlight american success stories. but first, okay. get close to the tv. turn it up a bit. do you recognize this tune? ♪ ♪ >> does that sound familiar? it is a popular karaoke song, huge in the '80s. what about this one? ♪ ♪ >> that's blurred lines, and living on a prayer, among dozens of songs recreated as lullabies. a company called rockabye baby. it is the brainchild of lisa roth, who founded that company in 2006. since then, the company created more than 50 albums. when it comes to making hit music, you could say it runs in her family. her brother is rock star david lee roth. lisa roth joins me from los angeles. thanks for joining us. >> tamron, it is fun to meet you. >> thank you. it is fun to

that front now is working into the western part of the berkshires in massachusetts and you can see that conveyer belt of moisture continuing to pull off the atlantic moving to northern parts of new england and behind that we have a cold pool of air that kind of reiing nated a couple of showers in the western suburbs of philadelphia this evening. but all is okay quiet now out there and temperatures as we go throughout the day tomorrow, very similar to today. maybe a degree or two lower and in a couple spots and 70 in philadelphia, 4:00 tomorrow afternoon. pittsburgh gets 68. very seasonable. but then that change comes in by the second half of the weekend. it's another powerful front coming through and in fact by sunday morning 7:30, 48 in philadelphia, 40 pittsburgh, syracuse at 40 and as you can see 30s in northern new england and temperatures will get even cooler by monday morning were there could be a first frost for some. we'll talk about those big changes for the second half of the weekend and a very unsettled period. also somewhere in that 7 day of all the details coming up brian i

massachusetts to escape taxes. you have a slightly more conservative electorate than you do in western new hampshire, which democrats have a better shot of holding onto. carol shea-porter is one of the more outspoken liberal members ,f her contents -- her caucus considering that she comes from a swing district. you do have a tight race. host: scott is next, republican line. caller: i would like to have your guest comment on the possibility that there will be no white democrat elected from the south in the house of representatives. i would like to have c-span have this man back on the day after the elections to comment about these results versus what he is saying now. guest: we all need to be held accountable. if the last remaining white conclusion -- caucasian members of the party from the deep south -- this is a turnaround from what we saw three or four decades ago , even in 2008. we had a number of white democrats elected from these districts. thatoting rights act proliferated african-american majority districts throughout the south in the early 1990's was probably one of the worst in that could have happened to t

united states from its eastern fringe way up to its western fringe beyond the philippines, this will stretch from oregon to the state of massachusettsat's how large of a storm that is as far as the cloud field. w winds sitting to 180 miles an hour. easily a category a, in fact, if it was a category 6, hypothetical category 6 this would reach the strength how strong this is. wave heights ahead of it 50 feet high. 15 meters high and fortunately with the storm it will weaken in the long term in the immediate future believe it or not some strengthening is possible in the next 24 hours but across taiwan and eke gnaw what in the coming couple of days should see a weaker version of it as opposed to what we see now. very little in the way of strengthening beyond 300 kilometers per how. the law of physics inhibit storms getting to that magnitude and comes wobbly as it goes through time in the next couple of days akin to take agent top and spin ig the after a few days or seconds in the top's case it becomes wobbly is what's happening here as it begins to weaken beyond the next two days but certainly sitting there with ideal condition, water t

the east at -- that brought a half a foot of rain in massachusetts and wind gusts 50 to 0 miles an hour north and much less here. and on the western fringe of the low you're starting to see clouds break up a little west of philadelphia and that will be the general trend as he lot phils in and moves away. as we wake up tomorrow morning sun returns and chilly breeze for the morning rush. 48. 6:00, at 8:00, temperatures 51 and into the afternoon tomorrow a nice rebound, seasonable levels. warmer breeze sun and clouds 64, allentown 66, 65 millville and at the shore if you're lucky enough to be there on friday temperatures middle 60s. and perfect time ago long the delaware valley up to the lehigh valley to check out some of the fall foliage and not only tomorrow but upcoming weekend and it's peaking there in the poconos past peak at this point. stay local. and if you head to the south mod flat southern parts of new jersey and delaware and here's a few locations around the delaware valley to check out some of the fall foil judge and mercer county state park and ridley creek and creek state park. brian will let you know in the 7 day fore

western society. that was another one of the factors. was unbearable to live like this. here in this country, burning witches at the stake in my home state of massachusetts. >> yeah, and i should point out that no one is suffering under the excesses of islamic dogmatism than muslims. the muslims of the world are suffering through this far more than others. >> sam harris, thank you very much for joining me tonight, and i wanted to make sure you were able to finish your sentences tonight. >> yeah. thank you so much, lawrence. it's a pleasure. >>> coming up, new protests over another police shooting in the st. louis area and in the rewrite tonight, a forgotten political prediction. a very big one. we have the video and it will make people who voted for president obama's reelection an awful lot happier than people who voted for the other guy. >>> and who would ever think of making angry comedian louis black an ambassador? if there is anyone out there with worse diplomatic skills than louis black, please step forward. the man who wants to make louis black an ambassador will join me later. then there's trusting your vehicle maintenance to ford service confiden

massachusetts avenue. >> we have talked security, economics. you get to wrap up the panel. the headlines about the possibility that people will be missed using western passports are obviously quite pointed these days. the risk of terrorists coming iraq has syria and never been more of a concern. council the un security resolution,nanimous is not easy to get anything travelus, on terrorist asking -- telling member countries to address foreign terrorist fighters by doing a variety of things. preventing suspected fighters implementing, legislation to prosecute foreign terrorist fighters, to undertake various steps to improve international cooperation such as sharing information on criminal investigations and prosecution. thatll on that because turned out to be a surprisingly easy thing to get international agreement on. the reason it was surprisingly easy is that the united states, over the last five to 10 years, has more or less imposed those kinds of measures on our vwp counterparts around the world. we now have arrangements in counterparts provide us with information that was never available before because we used the leverage to get everybody to do

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western states. host: surely in new hampshire. republican. caller: thank you for c-span. i want to shout out for ray to the man who called from massachusetts who wanted ben carson for president. i'm with him. here, i'm veryt concerned with the way the government feels about corporations. i don't care how much a man makes if he owns a corporation. worked with the corporations instead of being envious of the money they make, it would be so much more people.eous for our they would have jobs that would cut out this welfare problem we have. the government probably would have more money to work with than they ever expected. jobs that are out there are low-paying. they can't have a middle-class life like their parents had. ceos withorporation huge salaries and huge profits. caller: everybody can't be equal. when i was seven years old, my father was killed in the battle of the bulge. my family was no longer equal with the middle class. it happens. pull yourself together and work. i live on next to nothing. i am so far below the poverty .evel, but i have food to eat i'm 77 years old and i'm going strong. host: what about this notion? where is the m

massachusetts avenue. [laughter] >> and we talked security, economics. you get to wrap up the panel. >> the headlines about the possibility of people with initiating western passports are obviously quite pointed these days. and the risk of terrorists coming back from syria and iraq has never been more of a concern. and that led the u.n. security council to adopt a unanimous resolution, and not easy to get anything unanimously out of the security council, on terrorist travel, asking, telling member countries to address foreign terrorists, fighters by doing a variety of things. preventing suspected fighters to entry are transiting their territories, implementing legislation to prosecute foreign terrorist fighters, to undertake the recent steps to improve international cooperation such as sharing information on criminal investigations, interdictions and prostitution. i dwell on that because that turned out to be a surprisingly easy thing to get international agreement on. and the reason it was so pricing the easy is that the united states, using its vwp leverage over the last five to 10 years, has more or less imposed those kinds of measures on our vwp count

massachusetts avenue. apparently. >> and we talked security, we've talked economics. now you get to wrap up the panel here. >> tell stories hopefully. >> yeah. >> the headlines about the possibility of people with misusing western passports are obviously quite pointed these days. and the risk of terrorists coming back from syria and iraq has never been more of a concern. and that led the u.n. security council to adopt a unanimous resolution, and not easy to get anything unanimously out of the security council, on terrorist travel, asking, telling member countries to address foreign terrorists, fighters by doing a variety of things. preventing suspected fighters to entry are transiting their territories,mplenting legislation to prosecute foreign terrorist fighters, to undertake the recent steps to improve international cooperation such as sharing information on criminal investigations, interdictions and prostitution. i dwell on that because that turned out to be a surprisingly easy thing to get international agreement on. and the reason it was surprisingly easy is that the united states, using its vwp leverage over the last five to ten years, has more or less imposed those kinds of measures on our vwp counterpar

western states. host: surely in new hampshire. republican. caller: thank you for c-span. i want to shout out for ray to the man who called from massachusetts who wanted ben carson for president. i'm with him. here, i'm veryt concerned with the way the government feels about corporations. i don't care how much a man makes if he owns a corporation. worked with the corporations instead of being envious of the money they make, it would be so much more people.eous for our they would have jobs that would cut out this welfare problem we have. the government probably would have more money to work with than they ever expected. jobs that are out there are low-paying. they can't have a middle-class life like their parents had. ceos withorporation huge salaries and huge profits. caller: everybody can't be equal. when i was seven years old, my father was killed in the battle of the bulge. my family was no longer equal with the middle class. it happens. pull yourself together and work. i live on next to nothing. i am so far below the poverty .evel, but i have food to eat i'm 77 years old and i'm going strong. host: what about this notion? where is the m