host: do you know where houston, wisconsin is? -- towson, wisconsin is?uest: if i have a map in front of me i can find it. host: scott is coming from towson. where is it? caller: north of green bay. host: you are way up there. caller: i am loving it up here. i just lost my wife to cancer nine months ago. guest: i'm sorry. caller: one of the questions was whether she could get medical marijuana to help her, and for some reason in the state we cannot get it and i am wondering why that is. guest: there was a recent attempt in the state of wisconsin, i think, to pass legislation through the wisconsin legislature, and it didn't pass. there are other states where medicinal marijuana is available. it has been achieved many times through popular referendum. in some states you are able to put those on the ballot through petition where a sufficient number of citizens petition to put it on the ballot. in wisconsin, if my memory serves me correctly, it has to be placed on the ballot by the .egislature in order to create movement on the issue, one really needs to talk

host: tammy baldwin, a democratic senator from wisconsin.erves on the homeland security committee and special agent. bob on the republican line. first up. caller: i would like to ask the senator there why they cannot move as fast on thin that will beth the gun control? they got the vote and received it. what are they going to do? there are veterans out there waiting for benefits. some of them are waiting years to receive this. they ought to push it through as fast as they do the gun-control stuff, but as much effort into it as they did that and get something done for it. thank you for your service to the country. i deeply appreciate it. i would say as a new member of the senate, i am -- i have long wondered about the pace of change, and one of the positive forces in terms of moving things forward. i would reference the senate budget resolution that was just talking about it a short while ago, because one of the things that was really important to me in helping our chairman craft that budget, as well as passing it, was keeping the promises in

when i was 16 i moved to milwaukee, wisconsin.with my mother and then in 1992, that's when i caught my case. i had a good life, good parents, even though they were separated. but it was a good life. never needed anything. i worked. it's just one of those things. i'm just another man in another prison, just one of the guys. >> "b" range, joe. >> i'm not an angel, i can tell you that. you understand? i'm not here for being an angel i can tell you but, you know, i'm not a monster like everybody believes me to be. >> both the wisconsin and iowa departments of corrections have filed attempted murder charges against nieves. he refuses to discuss any of his cases. >>> up next -- >> as i was walking away, i turned around, i looked and one of the hunters shot me. he missed me. i turn around and i shot him. then i just start shotting all of them. >> we meet isp's most notorious inmate. [ male announcer ] book ahead and save up to 20 percent at doubletree.com, so you can sit back relax and enjoy. doubletree by hilton. where the little things

has scrapped ending six day delivery wisconsin congressman mark polk a and said quote today's announcement that the u.s.p.s. has canceled its plans to end saturday mail delivery is a victory for middle class families or rural communities in our small business owners who rely on this critical service so just how big of a victory is this for postal workers and really for all americans and what does this decision say about the power of the people in the face of devastating republican backed austerity cuts well joining me now for more on this is congressman mark procaine representing the second district of wisconsin and john nichols washington correspondent with the nation magazine welcome to you both thanks for coming on here so it's good to have you both on because you both you know in your statement and in your since since these cuts were on air since the ending of saturday delivery service was announced last month you've been rallying in front of local post offices in wisconsin and jonah you just wrote an article in the nation and you're connecting how the the health of the post office is

a democrat of wisconsin. a first temper. we should probably start talking about issues, talking about what happened in the senate yesterday with gun control. what are you thoughts? >> guest: i think the senate of theunited states let therica. was hardr me hat basico that enjoyed the support of over 90% of americans were voted down. a majority ofthe senate supported it, as you know, we're have those rules that require 60 votes to advance certain provisions. and i was probably my most disappointing day so far in the short ten -- tenure in the senate. i feel people are let down by the series of votes. >> host: are there a lot of nra members or gun owners in wisconsin? >> guest: there are many gun owners, just like the country. wisconsin certainly is reflective of that. i would say the hunting culture and tradition is very, very deep. if you think about just last year deer hunting season, over 650,000 hunting license were taken out in wisconsin. that's over 10% of the population that participates and enjoys the tradition of deer

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the blob lost in wisconsin. the blood never gives up. activists in minnesota wants to force day care workers to join unions. the union spokesman says it will be good for children in day care workers. >> unite to improve the quality of child care, to increase the access for working parents, and to lift our procession. john: left the profession. it sounds good. but holly -- hollee saville says it's not. yet a day care center you run for eight years. so you want to lift the profession? >> i believe we have already lifted the profession, and i am a licensed family child care provider. in my home i own my own business , an independent self-employed business owner. john: they say you and everyone else must unionize. >> that is essentially what they're doing, trying to force us to unionize. they say that it is -- will be voluntary, representation is not . john: two is they? >> our legislators. john: your governor wants unionization. he issued an executive order to ke this happen, saying i am sympathetic to those who think the union, as has been

thelob lost in wisconsin. the blood never gives up.on activists in minsota wants to force d care workers to join unions. the union spokesman says it will be good for children in day care workers. >> unite tomprovehe quality of child care, to increase the access for working parents, and toift our procession. john: left the profession. it sounds good. but holly -- hollee saville says it's not. yet a day care center you run for eight years. so you want to lift the profession? >> i believe we have already lifted the profession, and i am a licensed family child care provider. in my home i own my own business , an independent self-employed business own. john: they say you and everyone else must unionize. >> that is essentially what theye doing, trying to force us to unionize. they say that it is -- will b voluntary, representation is not . john: two is they? >> our legislators. john: your governor wants unionization. he issued an executive order to make this happen, saying i am sympathetic to those who think the union, as has been proven in

the blob lost in wisconsin. the blood never gives up.ivists in minnesota wants to force day care workers to join unions. the union spokesman says it will be good for children in day care workers. >> unite to improve the quality of child care, to increase the access for working parents, and to lift our procession. john: left the profession. it sounds good. but holly -- hollee saville says it's not. yet a day care center you run for eight years. so you want to lift the profession? >> i believe we have already lifted the profession, and i am a licensed family child care provider. in my home i own my own business , an independent self-employed business owner. john: they say you and everyone else must unionize. >> that is essentially what they're doing, trying to force us to unionize. they say that it is -- will be voluntary, representation is not . john: two is they? >> our legislators. john: your governor wants unionization. he issued an executive order to make this happen, saying i am sympathetic to those who think the union, as has been p

the blob lost in wisconsin. the blood never gives up.ivists in minnesota wants to force day care workers to join unions. the union spokesman says it will be good for children in day care workers. >> unite to improve the quality of child care, to increase the access for working parents, and to lift our procession. john: left the profession. it sounds good. but holly -- hollee saville says it's not. yet a day care center you run for eight years. so you want to lift the profession? >> i believe we have already lifted the profession, and i am a licensed family child care provider. in my home i own my own business , an independent self-employed business owner. john: they say you and everyone else must unionize. >> that is essentially what they're doing, trying to force us to unionize. they say that it is -- will be voluntary, representation is not . john: two is they? >> our legislators. john: your governor wants unionization. he issued an executive order to make this happen, saying i am sympathetic to those who think the union, as has been p

the blob lost in wisconsin. the blood never gives up.ists in minnesota wants to force day care workers to join unions. the union spokesman says it will be good for children in day care workers. >> unite to improve the quality of child care, to increase the access for working parents, and to lift our procession. john: left the profession. it sounds good. but holly -- hollee saville says it's not. yet a day care center you run for eight years. so you want to lift the profession? >> i believe we have already lifted the profession, and i am a licensed family child care provider. in my home i own my own business , an independent self-employed business owner. john: they say you and everyone else must unionize. >> that is essentially what they're doing, trying to force us to unionize. they say that it is -- will be voluntary, representation is not . john: two is they? >> our legislators. john: your governor wants unionization. he issued an executive order to make this happen, saying i am sympathetic to those who think the union, as has been pro

. >>> a church in wisconsin asking those who maybe think before they pray. it says, who is praying for snow, please stop. leaders say someone in the office came up with the idea after more inches fell across pats of central wisconsin. they say he is listening and giving you the snow, now they are saying knock it off. >>> stop praying for snow. let's move on. temperatures, close to 72 degrees. s that not too bad. precipitation, we could be seeing a few spotty showers, the unsettled weather will be here all day lop long and all week long. things will change a few peeks of sunshine throughout the day. high pressure, in the atlantic. you have clockwise flow around high pressure, it is going to push in and on shore flow. the winds will be south, east for today. waiting for the cold front. we will stay unsettled and by thursdays it will who back as a warm front. the temperatures will be in the mid-70s as we go in to thursday and also friday. temperatures right now, above average, 53 degrees baltimores 50 map chester. mount airy 52 degrees. 49 ga lee na. 50 goldsbo

and when i looked for information, i was directed to wisconsin. and so it is one of the oldist towns in ireland and around the 1940s a lot of irish people immigrated to the utah and a few set up in newtown, in wisconsin. and in the google maps you will find the street view and the first building that you see is a barn, a typical barn. and i find it interesting that out of everything in town that has not been photographed by google yet and also this idea of when you are looking something original, you find a certificate. and so, i copied this barn and placed this facade or prop in the most resymboling location in the original town of ireland. and the idea was we thought that the google car would come by, that this image would be picked up and the barn would exist in both. it was up for two weeks but i knew that the car was in the neighborhood. but recently i found out that after two years, it did. so now there is a google street with the same house. and i really like that idea of transition, where you then take an image from the internet and put it

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next protest in wisconsin? these people are part of the bl. most remember the teachers' union.st this fight. two years later we can see the results. so what are ty? at's n ♪ john: in wisconsin two years ago governor walker resisted the demands of those protesters and eventually won at the polls. collectivive bargaining with things like health insurance. they took away the union's ability to force teachers to pay dues. what has hapned since? goodhings, says kyle olson new rise the education action group which is following what has been happening. so what happens? >> well, we have seen joyce expand, competition expand. we haveeen union drop dramatically. the teachers' union has lost 30 percent of their members. other public-sector unions have lost0 percentf the members. so what is interesting is when you actually give teachers and public employees a choice, they opt out. john: so before they had to join, the same way i had to jon my stupid union here in new york before i came to fox when i worked for abc. mandatory union. everyone has t join. now it is the individual teachers joy

i am in oak creek, wisconsin, i've been to aurora, colorado.ivors on different -- on this issue in different venues. it's very different out there in the america and back home in america. it's this inside the beltway kind of conversations are relevant, but frankly, they're not relevant back home with a lot of americans. we want leadership on this and we want our elected officials to be on the front side of history. you know, we know where we're determined to make it go and we want people who will lead. if they're not, we're going to do something about it. >> that's a place to wrap this up a little bit. the lessons that the political system has delivered to politicians over the last gun control in 1994 we can talk about. so far the lessons delivered and reinforced are this is a dangerous vote if you're not in a blue state. this is a vote that can be twisted, contorted, distorted that can hurt you at the polls. the activism that you're talking about, lori, you have michael bloomberg willing to throw tens of millions of dollars to the gun control

river flooding is likely in wisconsin, illinois, and iowa.rm will also bring as much as a foot of snow from northern nebraska through wisconsin. >>> and the storm also causing widespread damage in the midwest. in illinois, fierce winds knocked down traffic signals. a trailer was flung into a stains store, and the side of a pet supply store was torn off. snow in the west forced hundreds of miles of interstate to close. >>> as we've been reporting, a massive explosion at a texas fertilizer plant hassan injured dozens and killed an unknown number of people. the town of west is located about 20 miles north of waco. a ten-block area has been evacuated due to toxic fumes. last night's explosion detonate decimate add four-block area of town according to one city official. up to 75 homes have been damaged, and an apartment complex was destroyed. firefighters were in the plant fighting the fire just before the explosion. >> what did you say? are you okay? >> dad, i can't hear. >> cover your ears. >> earlier i spoke with glen robinson of hillcrest bapt

there you see all those flood warnings posted all across michigan, wisconsin, down through i willinoisecia missouri we're kaepg an eye on for the potential of moderate to major flooding as we head into early next week. now we are seeing some showers redevelop especially back across iowa. unfortunately this is rain that that area does not need and it's not going to be too, too heavy but it's still more rain nonetheless so that is going to be an issue across iowa, eventually moving into wisconsin and northern illinois as well. temperatures today will be on the cooler side, only in the 40s and 50s in the northeast. 50s and 60s across the midwest with more lighter showers moving in. snow is going to develop back through montana and the dakotas and we are looking for, again, those temperatures to stay on the cooler side as we head into most of next week but, again, we are going to keim an eye 0 out for the flooding as the rivers crest and then go above the flood stage and start to recede. this is going to be an issue he is pegs ly with more rain all throughout the week and then the spring t

a white supremacist named wade michael page who walked into a sikh gurdwara temple in oak creek wisconsin and slaughtered in cold blood and he had a race war. but the term domestic terrorism was rarely used to assure you it was a brown dude who opt into a white church in wisconsin and six innocent people regardless of his political ideology he would have been referred to as a terrorist and also just there's been multiple bombings of abortion clinics by right wing christians we don't. we don't hear people really talking about that as terrorism either it's really fascinating and i consider anyone who want to kill innocent people mentally unstable why is there no discussion about their mental stability and that the conversation is only about radical islam and international terrorism trying to link these kids off to some international terror plot well as you know in america we've always needed to have a proverbial bogeyman we've always needed in and they meet during the seventy's and eighty's in the cold war it was the russian red scare and now in the millennial age it's become the green musl

it's actually really close to green bay, wisconsin. that's why i said that down there.ut they couldn't really get the spring carnival going, and they're not going to have a whole lot of better weather headed their way. let me show you what happens here this weekend, mountain snows and rains in the pacific northwest will then move this low pressure system over the northern plains and eventually northern minnesota and wisconsin. that's right. the people with their lights up, ron, they're going to want to go ahead and keep those up. for a little bit. the joke is still on. spring not coming to the northern plains or northern great lakes and neither is it in parts of new england here this weekend. here's what's going to happen snowwise. we'll actually see locally a foot or more in some places. bismarck is in that 6 to 12-inch range. minneapolis even getting a touch. i know a lot of folks are sick of it, so take a trip maybe to the southwest, because that's where you'll get 89 in phoenix today. 86, las vegas. midland, texas, at 76 and houston will make it to 77 along with dal

wisconsin avenue in chevy chase. stay with news4 for updates throughout the show. >>> a crash that snarled the morning commute is still causing lingering delays in virginia. motorcycle and a tractor trailer collided on i-95 north near the fairfax county parkway around 4:30 this morning. the motorcycle driver died and the investigation had the road shut do you completely for more than would hours. at the worst delays backed up as much as 11 miles. it is better out there now but still slow knowing. >>> new this morning a driver in a serious early drng morning accident in northwest d.c. that driver expected to be okay. the car ran off the road near 5th street and harvard, jumped a sidewalk and landed on the side against a fence surrounding the mcmillan reservoir. police are still trying to figure out what caused that crash. one lane nearby was closed but the road is now back open. >>> today could be your last chance to see some exhibits at the smithsonian at least until fall. the museum complex plans to close sections o

a white supremacist named wade michael page who walked into a sikh gurdwara temple in oak creek wisconsin and slaughtered six people in cold blood and he had a race where ideology but the term domestic terrorism was rarely used a sure you it was a brown dude who opt into a white church in wisconsin and killed six innocent people regardless of his political ideology he would have been referred to as a terrorist and also just been multiple bombings of abortion clinics by right wing christians we don't hear them we don't hear people really talking about that as terrorism either it's really fascinating you know i consider anyone who wants to kill innocent people mentally unstable why is there no discussion about their mental stability and the conversation is only about radical islam and international terrorism trying to link these kids automatically to some international terror plot as you know in america we've always needed to have a proverbial bogeyman we've always needed in and then me during the seventy's and eighty's in the cold war it was the russian red scare and now in the millennial

a white supremacist named wade michael page who walked into a sikh gurdwara temple in oak creek wisconsin and slaughtered six people in cold blood and he had a race where ideology but the term domestic terrorism was rarely used a sure you it was a brown dude who opt into a white church in wisconsin and killed six innocent people regardless of his political ideology he would have been referred to as a terrorist and also just been multiple bombings of abortion clinics by right wing christians we don't hear them we don't hear people really talking about that as terrorism either it's really fascinating you know i consider anyone who wants to kill innocent people mentally unstable why is there no discussion about their mental stability and instead the conversation is only about radical islam and international terrorism trying to link these kids automatically to some international terror plot as you know in america we've always needed to have a proverbial bogeyman we've always needed and they need to be in the seventy's and eighty's in the cold war it was the russian red scare and now in the mi

and people were wisconsin -- protesting? dr. king died for that right and most people don't realize they know the "i have a dream" speech but don't realize he was speaking giving the famous address i may not make it, the mountaintop address he was there helping them to simply organize. one year to the day before he died april 4th april 4th, 1967, at riverside church, dr. king gave another address that did not get as much attention after he died. they replay every year on his birthday a federal holiday that was hard fought for by people all over the country and state by state a think the hampshire and arizona were the last to recognize dr. king day. but dr. king addressed riverside church, thousands gathered come in and he said sadly, that his country, the united states is the greatest purveyor of violence today speaking account against the war in vietnam. many in the inner circle said don't do it. don't speak out. you have achieved the support of the most powerful person on earth, lyndon johnson, you got him to sign the civi

jeff flock has the story from wisconsin. jeff?nd perm with the adp must numbers in a numbet this is a huge company in wisconsin making equipment for drilling, oil extraction, oil tar sands, extraction, mining and the rest. this is the balls. what am i looking at, sir? >> this is a drill mass for a blast hole machine. >> a blast hole machine use the in the mining industry. who is hiring? this is a medium sized company. small businesses this last month hired the most workers, medium sized companies, about 37,000 workers, and large size companies where most of the hiring is done, small and medium sized companies. is the hiring that you've been doing over the course of the past couple years done? >> it's tapered off. job shock, you never know what comes in tomorrow, but i think we're probably going to plateau pretty much for the year. >> david ball, sr., and david ball, jr., these are the jobs hiring, and manufacturing jobs are lagging. >> yeah, and like my father said, i would agree the last three or four months we have seen a little

also northern michigan, and wisconsin. elsewhere, we're looking at a pretty nice saturday as we kick off the weekend. it will be about 10 degrees colder in the northeast today than yesterday. but tomorrow, could be about 10 degrees warmer than today. did you get all that. we are actually going to see a warm-up sunday. that's a loo >> here's a look at the radar. we have drizzle or a passing shower or two. mainly north of the golden gates. as we go hour by hour today, we'll go from partly cloudy to mostly cloudy skies at times. you may notice a sprirngle or two going by. with those clouds, they're going to keep temperatures mostly in the 60s this weekend. possibly closer to 0 around morgan hill. as we head into sunday, a few more areas of drizzle. a billing-time warm-up getting into the workweek. 70s and 80s tuesday and wednesday. >> and that's your latest forecast. erica? >> dylan, thanks. an apology on friday from the commander in chief. after his remarks about a woman's looks drew fire. here's more now from andrea mitchel

jeff flock is with an online retailer in wisconsin.it passes, it could be complicated for online companies. >> it's a tremendous burden to some of them. you know, the big ones don't care so much, but nick, a big guy, he cares because you do business in all 50 states was correct? >> correct. you don't collect sales tax. some say it's not fair. >> we collect tax in the state of wisconsin from profit making corporations. we don't collect from certain nonprofits. >> this bill forces you to do that, forces you to collect from for-profit organizations in all 50 states, look at the top on line retailers, these guys are largely not caring about this because they do business in each of the states so they already collect it. >> and they have to be there. they have retail stores in many cases, and they are used to filing those reports, and they are huge organizations. >> how big, oh onerous is it for you? you have maybe 9,000 taxing organizations around the country. >> it's already onerous, just doing wisconsin because in wisconsin, we're doing a

this storm will be producing rain across sections of wisconsin, already doing so.to see severe storms from parts of kansas, nebraska, up into parts of wisconsin. gretchen, i know you have family in parts of the midwest. take a look at this. this is a snow forecast. some parts of minnesota, according to this computer model, could see one to two feet of snow coming up wednesday into thursday. it is just a computer model, but of course we'll keep an eye on it and keep you posted. >>steve: can't shake this darned winter. >>gretchen: it has been especially brutal in minnesota this year. >>> supporters say it will create thousands of jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil but environmental concerns still keeping the keystone pipeline from forging ahead. >>steve: while the pressure heats up on president obama to make a decision, gas prices remain high at $3.50 a gallon. let's talk to stuart varney. are they connected, the keystone and the high price at the pump? >> i think they're going to be connected. at the moment you've got an average price nationwide, $3.50 a gall

away resulting in multiple casualties reza does it every pattison from the school of medicine at wisconsin university believe that blacks of federal regulations might be to blame for the disaster there's been this montreaux that we have to deregulate we have to take away regulations so business from thrives and obviously we see examples like this or fukushima for example where when we do that we suffer the consequences in the end and so i think we're seeing it with the environmental protection agency today where they are probably getting new regulations if there is another of the similar trigger that will allow all of the clean up to be in much more lax than it currently is and not force people to be moved out of the area because of radiation damage so there's this tremendous move. to to deregulate things to take away the powers of the e.p.a. and other regulatory agencies and i think it's a we're seeing now that that's a very dangerous precedent. young families were among those who witnessed the explosion at close range had to argy don't come to see amateur footage of the blocks captured b

. >> wisconsin democratic congressman mark poken had a rally outside the white house where liberal groups, they all delivered more than 2 million signatures to the white house saying do not cut social security benefits. >> and give anybody in the congress. who believes in cutting these life importing benefits. we're going to give them a political choice they cannot refuse. if they vote to social security, they may not be returning to washington. thank you very much. >> so, the bernie sanders of vermont at today's rally. i think we are a center left country broadly speaking, if you look at the way we vote and what americans like in terms of policy, but we are more accustomed to seeing the right take on republicans on economic issues than we are used to seeing the organized left take on democrats, so what happens next? in order to figure out, it maybe makes more sense to talk to a republican than a democrat since republicans have had to right the book and democrats for a long time now have not had to worry about that. steve schmidt joins us now. steve, does it make you happy to see fist yel

a wisconsin woman called police after seeing kittens having sex in her yard. quick! no one show her the internet. this is the colbert report. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: hey, everybody. welcome. >> stephen! stephen! ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. welcome. good to have you with us. please, sit down. may i offer a hearty shalom to certain members of my audience tonight. nation, the day i have long warned you about has finally arrived. not the one where my death ray is completed. that is still six months out. and you are warned. no, it is a different day, and i warned you about it. >> jason collins has become the first openly gay athlete in pro sports. collins is with the washington wizards. >> collins is the first active professional athlete in any of the four major sports to make that announcement while still a player. >> collins says, "i'm a 34-year-old nba center. i'm black. and i'm gay." >> stephen: that's right. he came out as black and gay. even more shocking he came out as a player for the washington wizards. you'v