the gentleman from pennsylvania. >> mr. chairman, may i inquire as to how much time our side has remaining? the chair: you have 13 1/4 minutes remaining. >> thank you. i'd now like to yield one minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. williams. the chair: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. williams: mr. speaker, i rise today in support of the water resources reform and development act of 2013. among many other vital water projects in texas, this bill authorizes funding for theening where 100 million tons of cargo transit annually. this waterway is a major economic contributor to both texas and america, providing $106 billion in revenue for our nation's economy. america's aging infrastructure is a threat to a healthy national economy. 13 million jobs rely on water infrastructure and it's up to congress to ensure that america's ports, waterways and water systems remain the very best in the world. i applaud chairman shuster and ranking member rahall for their diligence and also to my colleagues on the tr

so now i pick up pennsylvania. there were three volumes of pennsylvania. i look for ta, my great grandfather's name and there he is next to his name is colored cook. i bet he didn't cook at home. last night i bet his cooking days were long ago. this set colored cook. now i'm thinking about some of the other guys that i got from the pennsylvania regiment, one e. richard west. so i looked his name up in it just said cook. so i say to myself, i wonder if all of the cooks are black. that sent me on another road and this is what i think. the only person who is a cook, listed as a cook was black. white cooks were not cooks. that's how i got a lot of names, from those rosters. and people have been writing to me. someone wrote me last week, said to have a lot of information, where i can go. so there are people who now have read my work. they knows somebody. the numbers and ideas. they know where to get the information. so if i live another 10 years, from your lips to god years. [inaudible] >> now, if anyone wants to trade threesome black cemeteries and that person

over 500,000 people in pennsylvania will be disadvantaged. are disadvantaged by living in pennsylvania because of governor corbett's decision not to expand medicaid and to act for conditions that are untenable. as governor, i would accept the billions of dollars from the federal government reserve. to use that in a uniquely pennsylvania way to make sure that we provide health services to those under medicaid and working families and to make sure we do it in a way that's cost-effective and high quality. it's being done in other states and in fact by living in pennsylvania, more than half a million people will be disadvantaged. you should never be disadvantaged by living in pennsylvania. >> i want to ask you about the penn state scandal. that was a decision the governor made to sue and have the state sue the ncaa on behalf of penn state that was levelled with the university. did you agree? >> there is a lot to talk about and a lot of criticism of the governor and the way he handled it in particular. the attorney general is looking into that. we

15th and pennsylvania avenue. sort of in front of the u.s. treasury department. that's about a block from the front north lawn of the white house. and then moved from the white house -- from the treasury department up to the capitol from there. but at least at this point, we can tell you the president has been briefed on this. >> i'm sure he has been. stand by. deb ferric is joining us. what are you learning? >> we're briefed by an intelligence source. apparently a woman who was near the white house, she was driving a car, a black car, which actually you can make out in the frame on the right-hand side of your screen. a black car, just in front of the green sign. that was the car the woman was driving. she was near the white house. we're being told that words were exchanged between her and police when she tried to move away, she hit a police car. the air bag in that car was deployed, and a chase began. the woman was driving very, very quickly. she was running through lights, we're being told by an intelligence sou

shuster of pennsylvania. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 385 the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. shuster, and the gentleman from west virginia, mr. rahall, will each control five minutes. the chair reck nireses the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. shuster: mr. chairman, i ask unanimous consent that amendment number four in house report 113-251 be modified by the form i have placed at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the modification. the clerk: modification to amendment number four printed in house report 113-251, the amendment is modified to read as follows. at the end of title 1 insert the following, section, report on service elevations at affected lakes, a, assessment, one, in general, not later than 180 tais after the deist enactment of this act, the secretary, in coordination with the ferc, shall initiate an assessment of the drought conditions on lakes managed by the secretary that are affected by ferc license reservoirs which shall include an assessment o

there is damaging wind and rotations down from new york to pennsylvania into maryland. we'll have the latest update with the national forecast coming up later. >> thank you very much. >>> funerals in egypt today. protesters are saying good buy to some of those killed in another weekend of violent clashes in that country. [[voiceover]] every day, events sweep across our country. and with them, a storm of views. how can you fully understand the impact unless you've heard angles you hadn't considered? antonio mora brings you smart conversation that challenges the status quo with unexpected opinions and a fresh outlook. including yours. consider this. unconventional wisdom. >> opposing rallies marking the 40th anniversary of egypt's war with israel turned deadly across that country. 53 people were killed, and another 260 others injured street violence stretched into late sunday night. funerals were held for four of those who were victims. drivdrive by shootings killed sx egyptian soldiers. we're joined by our correspondent in cairo, who we do not name for security regions.

pennsylvania avenue is closed to pedestrians. it looks like they have taken care and got the gunman, got the woman, actually, this comes two weeks after a deadly shooting of course in the nearby navy yard amid a government shutdown. >> as the warming was sounded today, senate and the house abruptly went into recess as the warning was sounded today. the lawmakers left the chamber floor. the house just approved legislation at partly lifting the government shutdown by paying national guard and reserve members. >> police at the scene found children like this little girl here being carried to safety there and put into a police car. at that point, they really didn't know exactly what was going on if there was a gunman. they heard shots fired. so this was an all-out alert just about everybody in washington, d.c. on hand for this. >> and house minority leader just tweeted this about the security situation. this of course from nancy pelosi. she wrote, all members and staff, we are in temporary lockdown as capitol police work quickly to se

the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. -- is considered as read. the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. pitts, and the gentleman from minnesota, mr. peterson, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. pitts: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. pitts: i rise in support of the resolution and call on the house to support reforming the sugar program in upcoming negotiations on the farm bill. just a few months ago, i offered a reform amendment to the farm bill that gained unprecedented support and which made modest but essential reforms to our government sugar program. today we debate this resolution, one that is even more modest but just as critical to bringing stability and balance to our sugar market. as a matter of fact, my resolution is even more timely. following our debate on this program, the government began shuffling out money to support sugar growers. $250 million worth in four months. we were told by the opposing side that it operated at no cost.

it provides ground floor units on 17 street and pennsylvania avenue. the rear yard is to be open 25 percent of the lot and it includes building spaces 25 percent of the lot. therefore it requires an exception section 134 to allow the rear yard to gun at the second story instead of the ground floor. it's requested both building meet the composure developments of the planning code. the project is going to provide on site affordable units and it's a tier site within zoning district. and as such the project will provide 5 on site opt. please note that the draft notation references there are to be corrected in the final notation. the department received two calls of general inquiry about the project and one letter of opposition. in order for the construction that believe approved it must have an exception to the rear yard. and prudent to planning codes f and 329. the department recommendation the project be approved and it will add 5 affordable units that be transitioning toward more opts. the ground floors will be near pennsylvania avenue and otherwise act

it was in southwest pennsylvania near butler pennsylvania that in the course of one of the robberies she murdered a pennsylvania state trooper. shot him dead right there on the road. walter, irene and her son then fled. is was a woman who was caring for her child in the course of robberies and now having just murdered a state trooper. she fled back to her parents home and, unfortunately, in the course of their flight, the little boy who was three i think testified that, they basically spilled the beans on his mother, unwittingly. and the hunt was on. irena shrader and walter then fled out of pennsylvania and west virginia, made a beeline to the southwest near saint louis, missouri. i got into another gunfight and shot another police officer. they were ultimately captured until they were in arizona. they were caught there and brought back. irena shrader was tried and convicted and was sentenced to die for her involvement in these robberies and a number of the pennsylvania state trooper. she is the first woman to be executed in pennsylvania history. her story is important i think, at l

you can see it right in the middle of your screen right there, from near the white house, 15th and pennsylvania, apparently trying to get in through a barricade, in towards the white house area, stopped by the members of the u.s. secret service uniformed -- secret service, they stopped it, then the driver apparently a woman, made a turn up pennsylvania avenue towards capitol hill. running through traffic lights, getting all the way up to the senate side where it was stopped, apparently gunshots were fired, and that's the vehicle there. you can see it also hit one police -- there was a crash at second and maryland. and also first and constitution where the police officer was

in the meantime, we're going jua take a call from fred ino pennsylvania. thank you for holding in plymouth, pennsylvania. what's your question for rick atkinson? >> caller: more of an assessment. my feeling is the great tragedy of world war ii was the entire camp pain, huge loss of life. i was wondering and the way he conducted the campaign and that's basically it. i read the last book, the third book. >> he spends quite a bit of time at the italian campaign. once mr. atkinson gets over here, we'll ask him about that. next caller's gala in san antonio. heiko mckale. >> caller: the question is why didn't hitler crossed the channel into in good? if he had done so, with the english have used gas? >> host: okay, we'll ask him that question as well. (202)585-3890 in eastern central time zone. 585-3891 for those of you in the mountain pacific time zones. we are joined now by rick atkinson and the history and biography tent. thank you for being with us. fred and in pennsylvania called just a minute ago and he wondered about the italian campaign. he thought that w

take a look, this is 15th and pennsylvania. you can see beyond the street, the traffic is moving on 15th street. right there, the pedestrian entrance where the secret service officer is and the yellow caution tape, that has been in place for at least an hour now, maybe an hour and a half since the situation started unfolding. of course, if you were a pedestrian or someone on a segway, so many tours come down there. that's the street, pennsylvania avenue, the grand boulevard you would walk on to get in front of the white house. it has not been open. we have seen people coming here at security check point. the officers checking badges and ids and letting white house staff go through once they are sure it is secure. the initial report is the women in the car tried to ram the barricades here. there were reports she tried to ram the white house gate. for her to get right next to the white house gate, it would be next to impossible. not only would she have to go through the first set of metal ballards, she would have to get through t

police secured pennsylvania avenue here. i've seep a dozen uniform agents moving towards the residence of the white house. they have now re-opened pennsylvania avenue, though people are still being kept across the street in lafayette park. the incident that resulted in shooting at the capitol, apparently began here at the white house with an attempt to get on to the secure part of pennsylvania avenue across from the president's residence. trace? >> trace: intimating, we can't see you on screen -- you are on the north lawn of the white house. are you saying it began because this guy was trying to get on the 'white house proper grounds and failed to do that and then fled the scene? is that your best interpretation of what you know? >> i don't know if it's the white house proper grounds. pennsylvania avenue in front of the white house between 15th 15th and 17th has been secured since the oklahoma city bombings, and is guarded by shacks and automobile barricades. that is apparently what the car attempted to get to through. it wa

it was in southwest pennsylvania near butler pennsylvania the in the course of one of their robberies' shimmered pennsylvania state trooper, shot him dead read there. they then fled. this is a woman caring for her child in the course are robberies and now having just murdered a state trooper. she fled back to her parents' home. unfortunately in the course of their flight that nobody who was three years old testify that he basically spilled the beans and his mother unwittingly and the hunt was on. schroeder and walter then fled out of pennsylvania and west virginia and made a beeline to the southwest near st. louis, missouri. they got in another gunfight and shot and of a police officer. there were not all smelly captured until arizona. there were caught and brought back. tried, convicted, and sentenced to die for her involvement in these robberies and in the murder of the pennsylvania state trooper. the first woman to be executed in pennsylvania history. her story is important -- at least from my perspective in this book, she was consistently portrayed not according to her feed and sk

avenue it was put on lock-down, lots of pennsylvania there in front of the white house is blocked off but the key thing here as far as safety right now is that that lock-down we were all under is over but again a capitol police officer, the person who was injured in this, senator harry reid also confirming it -- that to us here in the past few minutes and this happened again, we will give you just that orientation, this is the capitol everybody is familiar with, right next door, right here behind me is the russell senate office building, right next to that is the heart building and on the other side the supreme court, so all together, all walkable, everybody makes this walk today, the senators walk there to their offices from the capitol, there is actual a tram as well but most people do it outside so it is right there is where barbara boxer's office is, dianne feinstein, her office also in the heart office building, right in front of that building where the shooting took place tory. >> do we know the status of the shooter, the gunman? are they in custody at this point? >> we understa

we have eliminated for the most part shackling in pennsylvania courtrooms. we have provided and required that judges give a statement of reasons. so when judges in pennsylvania commit children to public or private run centers, they need to have an explanation for why they're doing that. i think the kinds of stories that we are hearing about what might be happening in florida or california, for example, we don't have the same kinds of protections, we don't have the same kind of transparency in place. >> in 2011, sandy fonzo confronted former judge mark ciavarella outside the courtroom after his sentencing. funds upon son was sentenced by mark ciavarella to use gel and then a four month boot camp. edward committed suicide in june 2010. confronting shapiro, sandy fonzo lame the judge for her son's death. >> my son is not here. he is dead because of him. you ruined my life. i would like him to go to hell and rot there forever! he told everyone in court they need to be held accountable for their actions. do you remember me? two member my son? he has no heart. use

. >>> a toarpd watch in ne -- toro watch in new york new jersey and pennsylvania. we turn to dave warren. >> that is a tornado watch indicating that the potential is there for these storms to spin and rotate. no warnings right now, just severe thunderstorm warnings, the orange color there, northeastern pennsylvania, north jersey and one outside philadelphia. these storms are moving east about 60 miles per hour and they have already moved through pennsylvania, the line here pushing through eastern pennsylvania about to move into the new york area. this severe cluster of storms line beginning to bow out an indication of very severe winds. potential to give wind gusts about 60 miles per hour. this area is under a warning closer to the south around philadelphia, south of reading, southeastern pennsylvania and philadelphia, the line extends tall way to the south to d.c. and bloafe baltimore and it cono push to the west and the east. these storms potential of having wind gusts 60 miles per hour even rotate a little bit, that's why the tornado watch is in effect until 5:0

they did shut down pennsylvania watch knew. it's been shut down since oklahoma city because of the potential of a truck bomb coming through here and hitting the gate. still has pedestrian traffic allowed outside the gates hereby. >> neil: ed, development mean to intent you but we are getting video of -- that shows the vehicle in question when looks like it was -- i think that's garfield sickle there. so when she is around it again, the female driver she a manages to free herself from the parties who surrounded her and then it's a mad circle around the area, but you wonder how the president's people were briefed on this, how leaders were briefed on this. how did this all -- how do they all get moved to and what do they do right afterwards. >> pretty quickly we're told the president got a briefing here at the white house, by his aides, as to what what happened. i think for a number of reasons, they want to rule out that terrorism was involved. we're told by officials in the year stages -- we have to stress it's still very early i

monuments and up america's most important street, pennsylvania avenue. it started here at 2:18, the southeast corner of the white house compound. the black car ramps into a barricade that do their job. eye witnesses say uniformed secret service acts are watching it all. >> the barricade fell down because they were plowing through. at that point secret service was getting more reactive like whoa, whoa, trying to stop them. then they took off after they took the barricade down. >> reporter: secret service begin the chase right up pennsylvania avenue to the foot of capitol hill. by 2:40 she stops. look against as she's surrounded by police, guns drawn. a patrol car tries to block her but she puts it in reverse and speeds away. that's when the first gunshots are fired at the fleeing vehicle. >> it was a two-door, dark coupe it looked like to me. >> i heard the gunshots and then the car tore out of the area back towards this direction with the police car following. >> reporter: the tv cameraman an arabic speaker, follows her as she circles in front of the cap

because there's a lot of medical device companies in pennsylvania. so i heard liberal commentators say, that seems like a reasonable counter offer from house republicans. good. maybe this will be done. but immediate lit white house, and i believe harry reid said no. we're not going to do that. ultimately, i guess, that bargaining technique worked to a degree. but i think if you could explain why no was the default there for the president and harry reid when like i said a lot of liberal commentators said that's not so crazy. >> well, i can't speak for how they arrived at it. but do i know that sometimes you're reacting to one part of an agreement or several parts. the part of the proposal that the house was pushing and i think some senate republicans was the so-called extraordinary measures, that every president should have in place so that when you're getting close to the end of a period of time when the debt ceiling is at risk, or the debt level is at risk, that the treasury department can have those extraordinary measures to go beyond and have mayb

the car took off down pennsylvania. of course, we've been showing you video of what it looked like down near the capitol. between here and the capitol, we understand that the car took down pennsylvania avenue headed towards the capitol. that's when police gave chase as we understand secret service, they gave chase as well as capitol police. but once again this is the scene out here right now. traffic is moving. it's not nearly as chaotic as some of the visuals that we have been seeing. but of course there is that news conference expected to take place at the top of the hour at 6:00. it's at that point that we hope to really piece all of this together to get all the information and all the details as to what exactly went on here as we're doing our best to try to piece this together for you. again this is where it all started. right now it is still under investigation. it's one of the two major crime scenes up here at this hour. back to you. >> that's pretty incredible. one account said that this driver was chased for 12

pennsylvania avenue this way. we saw a car accident involving a caple kacapitol police vehicl significantly damaged. medical personnel also responding to that at the same time they were cordoning off the area. ambulance, fire, police responding to that. no idea if that car accident was at all connected to the shooting incident. but we have a nexus of police activity over here on pennsylvania avenue. another one over here with the helicopter. now we see a caravan of motorcycle police coming in now. capitol police coming in down pa a avenue as well. we have just been told by capitol police officers who are here that they expect they might be bringing in another helicopter to land at this position. they've told us to be ready to move if that happens. the capitol police officers on motorcycles appear to be fanning out now. we're on standby to move out of this position if we're asked to do that. of course, we will. they say they might be bringing in that other helicopter right here in the same place where they landed t

it was a hot summer afternoon in erie, pennsylvania. into a small branch bank steps a man wearing a white t-shirt with what he said was a bomb strapped underneath. he was a local pizza delivery man and the bomb turned out to be real. so real for the first time in the history of the fbi, a bank robbery was elevated to major status. that was only the beginning. the beginning of one of the most serious crimes that would unravel into a murder with life and death at stake and a murderer still walking free today. drew griffin has the story. >> the most bizarre bank robbery in the history of the fbi. >> who came up with the idea? and what was the motivation behind it? >> with deadly results. and deadly surprises. >> and sure enough, there was a dead body in there. >> how you doing? >> a suspect who is still free. >> by his own admission, he put the bomb on the guy's neck. >> exactly. >> and a sister still grieving. >> brian never was materialistic. he never was greedy. he never would have done this. >>> august 28th, 2003. erie, pennsylvania. w

it was a hot summer afternoon in erie, pennsylvania. into a small branch bank teps man wearing a white t-shirt with what he said was a bomb strapped undernooept. he was a local pizza delivery man and the bomb turned out to be real. so real for the first time in the history of the fbi, a bank robbery was elevated to major status. that was only the beginning. the beginning of one of the most serious crimes that would unravel into a murder with life and death at stake and a murderer still walking free today. drew griffin has the story. >> the most bizarre bank robbery in the history of the fbi. >> who came up with the idea? and what was the motivation behind it? >> with deadly results. and deadly surprises. >> and sure enough, there was a dead body in there. >> how you doing? >> a suspect who is still free. >> by his own admission, he put the bomb on the guy's neck. >> exactly. >> and a sister still grieving. >> brian never was materialistic. he never was greedy. he never would have done this. >>> august 28th, 2003. erie, pennsylvania. wit

no the vehicle fled east of pennsylvania avenue. av there were multiple crime scene as a result of the vehiclescles fleeing. there were multiple shots firedi at several different locations. this case is under investigation bit metropolitan policetroli department with assistance fromh the u.s. capitol police, secreti service and thec federal b bureu of investigations.of that is all i have, but i will take a few questions. >> [ inaudible ] >> this is under investigation,t but at this point an unauthorized vehicle attempted to gain access at a very outer perimeter checkpoint.ter this is an outer perimeter checkpoint of the white house. beyond that checkpoint, there's multiple other checkpoints thatn someone would have to go through, but there's this, this unauthorized vehicle, approachee the checkpoint. our officers acted appropriately. the vehicle then fled, and instantly struck one of our officers as it departmente depad initial scene. >> the name. deceased? >> that is not being released as this point. in >> is terrorism ruled out? >

it was a hot summer afternoon in erie, pennsylvania. into a small branch bank stepped a man wearing a white t-shirt with what he said was a bomb strapped underneath. he was a local pizza delivery man and the bomb turned out to be real. so real for the first time in the history of the fbi, a bank robbery was elevated to major status. that was only the beginning. the beginning of one of the most serious crimes that would unravel into a murder with life and death at stake and a conspirator who is still walking free today. drew griffin has the story. >> the most bizarre bank robbery in the history of the fbi. >> who came up with the idea? and what was the motivation behind it? >> with deadly results. and deadly surprises. >> and sure enough shlg open the freezer and there was a dead body in there. >> how you doing? >> a suspect who is still free. >> by his own admission, he put the bomb on the guy's neck. >> exactly. >> and a sister still grieving. >> brian never was materialistic. he never was greedy. he never would have done this. >>> aug

we're hearing as well from -- from folks in pennsylvania. pennsylvania domestic violence shelters that rely upon federal funds and who have already been impacted by the sequester, the across-the-board, indiscriminate cuts that have been in effect since march, these shelters may have to further reduce services to vulnerable victims of domestic violence. in the words of one state advocate -- quote -- and these are her words -- "we are hanging on by our fingernails." meaning hanging on just in terms of being able to provide services with funding either limited or funding being -- being jeopardized. women trying to escape abusive relationships should not be hampered by the failures here in washington to end this shutdown. in terms of social security, we know that -- that social security checks are going out fortunately but on average, in pennsylvania, 2,900 new claims are processed each week. that's the typical weekly total for new -- for new claims. this means that pennsylvanians who have reached retirement age and have paid into the system the

edward, i want to start with you, university of pennsylvania is partnering with one of these top mooks, and it's called cosera. and they put all these courses online. here's the site. we're showing it right now, and there are 4 million people signed up on it since it started 2012. these are free classes all over the world, but you don't really get college credit. how does it work and how does it make sense? >> so, it makes sense in two ways. first, the external piece, our mission is the creation and dissemination of knowledge. the internet has made it possible in a way never possibly before to share our teaching resources with the world. at the same time, the materials we're preparing for cosera are going to revolutionize the way we teach on campus. it already has begun to do so. our calculous course which we put on cosera is forming the backbone of some of our on campus calculous courses and changing the way we teach calculous. >> that sounds all well and good, and another great tool to teach people on campus or people who aren't paying attention who want to learn about these things a

the gate that is on pennsylvania avenue. of course, the white house was never in full lockdown mode, but they had brought in extra security, had closed off parts of pennsylvania avenue. i can also tell you senior administration officials who had sort of been huddled behind closed doors have come out. they're back in their offices. they continue to monitor the situation, continue to be in contact with law enforcement officials, but certainly there's a larger sense of calm now that things are getting back to normal to some extent at the u.s. capitol. to rehappcap what happened tesa white house. the suspect allegedly tried to crash into a barrier that's sort of outside of one of the security gates here at the white house. that's at 15 and e and just to give you some perspective, that's really the farthest security entrance from the west wing, from the residence. it's near the treasury. it's all the way on the east side of the white house. we're here on the west side near the west wing. so no one really heard anything or saw any

it was a hot summer afternoon in erie, pennsylvania. into a small branch bank steps a man wearing a white t-shirt with what he said was a bomb strapped underneath. he turned out to be a local pizza deliveryman. the bomb turned out to be very real. so real for the first time in the history of the fbi, a bank robbery was elevated to major status. that was only the beginning. the beginning of one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of the fbi. serious crimes that would unravel into a murder with life and death at stake and a murderer still walking free today. drew griffin has the story. >> the most bizarre bank robbery in the history of the fbi. >> who came up with the idea? and what was the motivation behind it? >> with deadly results. and deadly surprises. >> and sure enough, there was a dead body in there. >> how you doing? >> a suspect who is still free. >> by his own admission, he put the bomb on the guy's neck. >> exactly. >> and a sister still grieving. >> brian never was materialistic. he never was greedy. he never would have

public education in every part of pennsylvania. cannot let a district go bankrupt and then handed over to a charter operator for profit. [applause] now, these days we hear this term reform throw it around and we're supposedly engaged in this era of school reform, but some of the term reform has become corrupted. it refers to budget cuts, to firing teachers, firing social workers, firing guidance councils, firing libraries, closing public schools, turning public dollars over to private management entrepreneurs, and pretending that test scores are the most important outcome of schooling. all of this is called reform. many teachers and presents today, and i've met them all of the country, feel that somehow in ways that they don't understand they have become public enemies. they are disrespected. sometimes it seems that eliminating public education has become the goal of this movement that calls itself school reform. this is nuts. so what i have described in the book, and i've had a debate with the editor about the title because "reign

congressman matt cartwright of pennsylvania joins me now. congressman, thanks for your time tonight. where were you? how close were you? describe what you saw and what happened. >> ed, it was about quarter after 2:00. we had finished the first vote series for the afternoon, and when you look on the inside of the house of representatives at the speaker, right behind where the speaker is, the next chamber behind that is the speaker's lobby, as you know, and as you proceed further south along the building, the southernmost edge of the building is a balcony where members can go and relax. that's exactly what i was doing. i was having a chat with congressman jerry connelly from northern virginia. two of us were chatting quietly for about five minutes when the shots rang out. and i have to tell you, at first it sounded -- it put me in mind of the first salvo of a 21-gun salute. it was a little ragged. they weren't all together, and then when i put it together, i realized these were shots, and it lasted -- it sounded like at about seven, eight, may

map the blue are the democratic districts and the red are the republican districts even though pennsylvania is actually a fifty fifty state these districts show that you're going to have a lot more republican members of congress coming out of pennsylvania than would be reflected if instead each congressional district was a geometrically similar you know a polygon roughly same on all sides shape so gerrymandering is a problem number one but number two the other problem is you say they're for people getting selected to go after congress it's actually the precinct committee chair person the precinct people if you go to. democratic or republican party and volunteer and say i want to be a precinct committee member those are the people who decide not only what the what the party line is going to be what the platform is going to be they also decide who gets to run in the primary and the tea party got really aggressive about this in the two thousand and ten election and you can see the these you tube line where they're telling people go. join the republican party and volunteer because usually these

i street and pennsylvania avenue, the pennsylvania avenue promenade at 15th and pennsylvania is back open to pedestrians. that's the latest in northwest. back to you. >> thank you. >>> the government shutdown, people are camping out. >> more coverage on capitol hill. chaos that unfolded this afternoon as news 4 at 5:00 >>> again, we are waiting. in just minutes, a live press conference from police on capitol hill. police in southern virginia are looking for a man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl. it happened in carrollton. investigators tell us tonight, the man forced the girl into his car while she was waiting at a bus stop along route 17. they say he assaulted her twice before releasing her. officers say the man was driving a white chevy coupe. >>> jurors in fairfax found a young father guilty of child abuse in the death of his daughter and recommended the 28-year-old spend four years in jail. the 6-week-old was rushed to the hospital in june of 2012 where shelated died. in december, the judge will go with the jury's recommendation or lessen it. >>> a group

the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. casey: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. casey: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise today on the day when we are ever hopeful that we'll be able to complete legislation tonight that will remove the threat of a default as well as to open up the government and to allow us to go forward now with negotiations on short-term budget issues for the next year and even beyond that. so we're -- i'm confident that that will happen, we'll be able to complete most or all of the work tonight. but i think in a larger sense why it's vitally important we get this agreement effectuated is because there are an awful lot of people throughout that have been hurting. hurting for several reasons. we've had a recovering economy but job growth hasn't moved fast enough, we still have by way of example in pennsylvania over half a million people out of work at last count, 501,000 pennsylvanians out of work. the percentage number doesn't really te

this line not a solid line but severe weather moving through eastern pennsylvania. we're seeing damaging wind gusts closer to the capitol here, washington, d.c. moving through baltimore, maryland, all of this will move east. these storms moving 30, 40 mph, and so a quick storm is what we have throw th through the after. it is a warm front so the temperatures will drop once the showers and storms move through. we are in the 60s, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and friday. dry and comfortable. dry across the midwest. still dry in the southwest. we need rain, the dangerous fire conditions with the wind picking up and no rain in the forecast. just a few clouds there across cal and more winds coming in the northwest with rain in washington and oregon. temperatures are cool in the midwest and out wist but there is this warm up, 72 in new york. once the rain clears out the storms move through, temperatures will drop a bit. the wind will pick up and the temperatures drop in the 60s over the next few days. dry weather the close up view with radar and clouds in california not s

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he was a pennsylvania. according to the great new book about get if gettieses burg, he really helped precipitate the beat. he didn't want the southerners sort of roaming around in the pennsylvania country side. he was, indeed, was killed in these woods on the first day of the battle. and caption for this one accurately says that. there's another famous picture of brady, you may have seen, standing before a split rail fence. there's a pond and looking out at the field. it's called the wheat field in which the general fell and of course fell on the woods and not the wheat field. try to ebbs plain that. but -- then there's a third. he's similarly positioned in that photograph where you're looking over his back it's a beautiful scene. there's a third one a similarly proposed where they're looking through a field at a barn where he was supposedly taken to die. he was actually taken somewhere else. and the fog of war. but anyway to me these three photographs introduce in an explicit way a human consciousness of t

columbus toward erie, pennsylvania. with the clouds thickening here. the good news here by thursday morning that should be gone. i think thursday turns out to be decent as well. 71 in town, holding on the bay. andrews gaithersburg, along with hagerstown and a comfortable 70. tonight mid-40s in the suburbs to the lower 50s here in dc. as we look at your 3 day forecast, 71 degrees. 53 tonight with the 40s. early on thursday, thursday turns nice, 72. friday another fast moving disturbance, thursday night. a chance of a shower eight night into sunday morning. >>> it is columbus day. a lot of you have the day off. things are looking good. with the exception of one spot, a crash that happened at 4:00 in the morning, a single vehicle hit an electric pole and both caught fire. since then route 450 has been shut down near rutland road. no restrictions on 395 or 270. >>> here's what it looks like in college park. all the way into silver springs. at least if you have to go into work, you don't have to deal with delays. looking good on the dulles toll road, no iss

western pennsylvania the weather pattern had a lot to do with that, along with pollutants in the air. the air here is sinking. it's clear. there's a light breeze and no rain. over to china, there are three weather patterns come nating the area here. so it has kept the air trapped and the air can't go anywhere. the clouds here, that's a front moving through the area. that will stir up the atmosphere and lead to better conditions. 41 degrees in chicago, 58 in memphis, a lot warmer along the east coast and there is rain here. and this is a front that cool air is moving through northeastern pennsylvania, western new york, but it will stop and develop into a coastal storm over the next 24 hours. that's why we're seeing heavy rain here. a storm develops just off of the coast as that cool air comes into the warmer ocean waters intensifying that storm. we'll look at rainy weather here along the coast. temperatures are into the 60s and will continue to climb into the upper 60s before the rain gets here, but then drop. only into the 50s by tomorrow. by tomorrow morning, 40s with rain developing

map the blue are the democratic districts and the red are the republican districts even though pennsylvania is actually a fifty fifty state these districts show that you're going to have a lot more republican members of congress coming out of pennsylvania than would be reflected if instead each congressional district was a you know geometrically similar you know a polygon roughly same on all sides shape so gerrymandering is a problem number one but number two the other problem is you say they're for people getting selected to go after congress it's actually the precinct committee chair person the precinct people if you go to your local democratic or republican party and volunteer and say i want to be a precinct committeemen. those are the people who decide not only what the what the party line is going to be what the platform is going to be they also decide who gets to run in the primary and the tea party got a really aggressive about this in the two thousand and ten election and you can see the these you tube line where they're telling people go. join the republican party and volunteer bec