onto pennsylvania avenue. and there is a great long vista from the capital behind it down pennsylvania avenue and the treasury building into the white house ♪ ♪ riderless force behind the caisson. ♪ bucking, almost for testing out what it has to do. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> many people walking along the sidewalks. the area around the capital and around lower pennsylvania avenue, going to where the procession is at the white house. ♪ ♪ the white house, you will recall is 1600 pennsylvania avenue. the core cage is now six blocks away. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪. the marines are going by. and now the military commanders and the attaches. ♪ ♪. and now the court case itself, six white horses. the president's casket sadly behind followed by a young man who is a military seamen. edward mamet of livingston, new jersey. ♪ >> very large crowds are pouring down the sidewalk to pennsylvania avenue, keeping pace with the parade. ♪ >> behind, we have the military seamen carrying the presidential flag and the rid

or pennsylvania and maryland. i haven't seen the latest version of the pennsylvania. look to address of servant as it was being introduced actually a previous year the pennsylvania senate had adopted it but the pennsylvania homes never approved it so it's better past again who won who sent them so then you're not the other probably you know it sounds like it's going to pierce know. the differences from the maryland law i believe would be that in maryland one could you please take the sample of d.n.a. at the moment when the person is brought to the station right to be booked to be kept but they don't earn allies that until the judge has determined that the individual should stand trial so there's a kind of hearing that arraignment is called to make sure there's probable cause the pennsylvania war does not require that as are the you know when i last looked at it and certainly the california law does not have very intersection and different now during the ruling for the maryland versus king. supreme court decision s

they're detouring you on to eastern pennsylvania until 5:00 a.m. not huge delays but may confuse people and cause you a little bit of a problem this morning. moving along quite nightly on the beltway. you are good to go on the inner loop. things are moving along quite nicely on 66, as well. no problem on 95 in virginia, fredricksburg up to the beltway, you are looking good and those hov lanes are open at 95 and 395 at this time. back to you. >> amanda, thank you. there are new calls for increased safety after a postal worker was shot and killed. >> this happened while he was on his normal route. but, friends and cliques -- and colleagues tell us there was one >> in checking our top stories at 4:35 this morning in going to the redskins home game, take a blanket and parka. i would also pack a heater and electric planket. the cold weather blast is continuing to push across the northeast. >>> the d.c. city council is considering raising the minimum wage to $11.25 an hour. mayor gray says it would hurt business and supports raising it to $10 an hour. >>

so now i pick up in sylvania and three volumes of pennsylvania. i look for pa, my great-grandfather's name and there he is in next to his name is cook. i don't know whether my grandmother could cook. he couldn't cook at home. [laughter] his cooking days were long ago. so now i'm thinking about some of the other guys that i got from the pennsylvania regimen one being richard west so i look his name up and it just said cook. so i say to myself, i wonder if all of the cooks are black, and that sent me on another road to find out. this is what i think. the only person who was a cook enlisted as a cook were the blacks. white cooks were not cooks. they did not go under 323 so that is how i got a lot of the names, from those rosters. and people wrote have been writing to me and someone wrote me last week and sent me a whole lot of information. he was in concent. now there were people that read my work and they know somebody. they know where somebody is. they know where to get the information. so if i live another 10 years, i will. from your lips to god's

ow it moves off. >> slowly up pennsylvania avenue . ward the white house e wind rushing the flag that drapes the casket. . >> hut! can andcountry that does produce the longest, blackest limousines in the world -- the hearse is pulling a wooden wagon. >> as this nation grows older and as the years go by, the significance of tradition is added to this session. the president had proposed with his allies the consideration to make pennsylvania avenue even more majestic and lovely than it is. the single flag is the personal president of the united states, fringed in gold. embroidered on its face is the american neagle holding the ofve branch and the arrows war in another claw. think, the truman administration, he ordered the eagle's head turned so it would be looking toward the olive branch rather than the arrow, and that is the way it is today. ["funeral march" playing] [bell tolls] >> the music that you just heard by "the funeral march" frederic chopin. marching in front was the special forces parachute troops who recently returned from so

we had a similar story as pennsylvania's. i can say with confidence as well as a former prosecutor, members, that we can have it all , in one sense. we can have better public safety at less cost with less crime and less recidivism. i will tell you it was no honor when the future will trust in their project made us the poster child for prison growth in 2008. they released a report called one in 100, which did for the -- which stood for the proposition that one in 100 adults in this country were behind bars. in kentucky that rate was one in 92. as an aside, in the country, there are one in 31 adults under some form of correctional control. it is a stunningly high. i think it should hit all of us. in the decade ending doesn't think about the growth rate was almost quadrupled the national average. we were at 45% of the rest of the country. to put that even in greater context, let me tell you that we comprise up to 5% of the world's population, but we house 25% of the world's visitors. -- world's prisoners. kentucky was the epicen

pennsylvania house. never approved it so it's back. past again but one pounds and swinging out the other probably sounds like it's been a pastor. on the differences. from the maryland law i believe with the maryland. when you taste a sample of dna at the moment though when that person's right to stage like a beagle. to be kept. but they don't have the lines until a judge has determined that the individual. i should stand trial. so there's a kind of hearing range is called to make sure it is probable cause. pennsylvania law does not require that has only given one last look at it and certainly the california law does not as jerry and ann and jeff ran down during the early for the maryland vs came the act supreme court decision supreme court justice anthony kennedy issued the majority opinion saying take and analyzing it seeks lot of the red sea is dna is like fingerprinting and photographing a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the fourth amendments. kenny and legally speaking wh

diane is in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. diane safe to say, snow is the story where you are. >> reporter: yes, it certainly is, dell. here in pittsburgh, i would say about two to three inches of snow has fallen. the department of transportation has road crews working 12-hour shifts. so far no major accidents. still in other wards of the country this has been a dangerous wreak for holiday travel. >> it is a deadly storm that had wreaked havoc in the mid-section of the country. 33 states have seen whiteout conditions, but the worst is yet to come, with heavy rains expected to hit the east coast later tonight into wednesday. all enough to snarl traffic and air travel. threatening plans of millions of americans hitting the road this week for thanksgiving. >> i saw an accident in the parkway. it was a four-car pileup. >> reporter: from sleet and 50 mile an hour winds in albuquerque, new mexico, to philadelphia where many are bundling up against 20 degree temperatures. even the south, where high surf is picking up. and it's not ju

, the taxpayers of pennsylvania out of. she says she wants to may that money back but the state has not done its investigation. >> the state has not completed its investigation. she hasn't been arrested or anything because that's a criminal offense defrauding a state, is it not? >> it's a major offense. she could face felony charges and go to jail and face a $10,000 fine this is a big deal. a very big deal in the state of pennsylvania and anywhere especially when you defraud the state out of as much money as she potentially did over couple years she won that money and not told the state she won it. >> so now is it the state's fault that this woman defrauded them if they didn't know, she didn't declare it, the state of pennsylvania, i mean, how could they know? >> it's a good question. the state does not have the ability to talk to different departments within the state so even though this woman won the money from the pennsylvania lottery, the pennsylvania department of public welfare paying for her medical bills, for her ki

we have a similar story to pennsylvania. i can say with confidence as well as a former prosecute memberrers we can have it all in one sense. we can have better public safety at less cost with less crime and less resit criticism we have done that if kentucky. it's an honor to tell you. it was no honor when the charitable trust when the public safety -- made us the poster child for prison growth in 2008. i think it should be to all of us. in kentucky for the decade ending in 2010 our prison growth rate was almost quadruple the national average. we were at 45%. we comprise to 4.5%. but we house about 25% of the world's prisoner. kentucky was truly the epicenter for prison growth. it begs the question. all of that translated all the record spending and ib -- incarceration to translates to better safety. all the pending in the previous 20 years amounted to very little. our crime rate had been relatively flat. most, as you've heard. it's been dropping for some time. we only enjoyed about a third of the national crime rate crop. we

it's rain from pennsylvania southward all the way through here. snow to the north, don't get me wrong, in the midwest, ohio, pennsylvania, buffalo, but the issue is all of this rain. the rain itself right now is just making travel miserable across the roadways. this is what new york city looks like right now. i can't find you one city street that's going faster than about

we look at an unlikely coalition that has formed in pennsylvania between some environmental lifts and a number of oil and gas companies. they say it will allow fracking to continue and ensure that safeguards are taken. rick carr reports. >> environmentalists have been protesting against fracking in pennsylvania ever since the natural gas boom about ten years ago. >> a resounding no to fracking in our parks. >> reporter: their main concern is that the chemicals pumped into wells at high pressure to extract the gas will leak or spill into lakes and streams. advocates of fracking say the threat of contamination has been grossly exaggerated but environmentalists say oil and gas companies need to come clean about the risks. >> it is fundamentally an untruth to walk into a community and say that this is a 100% safe process. it isn't. no industrial process is. make no mistake about it, the risks are real and they are substantial. >> so when they talk about natural gas, people often ask me the question, is it good or bad for the environment. >> reporter: despite all of those concerns, mark br

buy a healtho insurance policy in pennsylvania and you are an employer, you have to meet pennsylvania's minimum standards to buy an insurance policy from a company in pennsylvania. they have to comply with those requirements. the affordable care act is not doing anything differently than any state does with their insurance commissioners. a viewer.ill go to she has employer coverage. her premium will be going up next year and part of it is due to obamacare. the president said we would see an average of 820 $500 decrease in premiums due to obamacare. $2500will like -- a decrease in premiums due to obamacare. when will i see that decrease? we saw premiums going up annually at double-digit rates. that happened before the affordable care act and it is probably still happening, but not to the degree that it was. we just saw several articles suggesting that the cost of health care, while it is still increasing, is increasing at a slower rate than it has in the past. the increased this year was the lowest it has been in quite some time. some are saying it is because the economy is sluggish. par

satellite and radar, a few snow showers across western pennsylvania. don't be surprised if you see a few flakes falling around the hagerstown area. is our holiday travel weekend lines, quiet and drive for the day tomorrow. look for heavy rain until late in the day on tuesday. we could be looking at significant snow in the mountains. what to expect coming up in a few minutes. >> the winter weather is being blamed for at least eight deaths in the west. several states received several inches of snow, including texas. plansorm could affect fort eustis and wednesday, as people hit the roads for or tuesday and- f wednesday, as people hit the roads for thanksgiving. steve will have another check on the forecast in a few moments. a u.s. postal service worker was murdered while delivering mail last night. the 26-year-old was shot and killed along his route on read road in landover. street in landover. whitney? the issue is postal workers going out later and later on their route. thes in near darkness that postal worker was murdered. in the daylight, no obvious

it's reportedly happened in pennsylvania, michigan, missouri and minnesota. similar cases were reported last year. >>> a new york city man is arrested and charged with a hate crime. police are investigating incidents in new jersey, pennsylvania and washington, d.c. the two deaths have been linked to the startling trend. >>> check this not greenland. two men rescue a shark who really did bite off more than it could chew and nearly choked to death on a moose. but the men reportedly pulled out a carcass. clifford harvey tweeted these photos of a whale bringing it back to sea. >>> and macklemore comments on the trayvon martin case as he accepts his award at the american music awards. he accepted viamartin was kille. >> i want to acknowledge trayvon martin and the hundreds and hundred us of kidding are due to racial profiling. >>> all-time highs for the s&p. just in time for holiday drivers. the gallon of gas went up over the past two weeks. according to the lundberg survey, the price is $3.25. >>> a possibly nuclear deal with iran may ease tensions along with wha

perry: department of conservation and natural resources, pennsylvania fish and folk commission, pennsylvania game commission, pennsylvania department of transportation, occupational health and safety administration, delaware river basin commission, pennsylvania historic museum commission, finally, mr. speaker, all those chemicals that were noted on every jobsite are listed on a materials safety data sheet required by law. i'd yield back. thank you, mr. speaker. the chair: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. holt: i thank you, mr. chairman. my colleagues say there have been no cases of contamination from the fracking itself. well, what about leakage from poorly constructed wells? what about leakage from unlined pits? are they prepared to claim there's never been water contamination because of this? because that's what the bureau of land management regulations and rules get at. well construction, waste water management, the threats to drinking water in neighboring communities and this legislation would gut -- would remove any possibility of such rules. i reserve the balance of my

these are tracking east right along the pennsylvania border. now, danella, how is our friday morning traffic? >>> well, tom, around the beltway that's where it's nice and clear, but i-95, folks traveling southbound this morning still seeing the broken down tractor-trailer here tying up the left side of the roadway. cars are getting by. again, just single file to the right. you can see the flares are still out. over to 395 northbound between duke and seminary. you can see here cones are still up and so, again, the construction here has the right side of the roadway getting by. left side is blocked. taking hov, nice and clear. 395 southbound nice and clear as well. i'm back in ten minutes. aaron and eun, over to you. >> we'll see you then. danella, thank you. >>> news 4's molette green is following breaking news from the live desk. >>> eun, good morning. we're following a horrible scene out of latvia. the certificasearch continues f survivors buried in debris after a grocery store roof collapsed. at least 26 people died in this disaster in the co

and i asked as a democrat it in it a redder than red district, in central pennsylvania, and if he run, it's not going to be because the voters want him to fight for the obama agenda. it will be because they want vindication for his father who remains very popular in this district. i asked former pennsylvania governor also democrat ed rendell earlier this week if he thinks it's a good idea for jay-pa as he's nope to run for congress and the gov told me it's a little too soon. >> nationally i think a lot of people think paterno's legacy was tarnished by the scandal, but you're saying that in their home district, he's actually still remarkably popular. >> absolutely. outside of the penn state community and outside of central pennsylvania, the paternos have a somewhat tarnished legacy, but within that community, he remains very he popular. >> all right, bill? >> yeah. hallmark famous for their holiday ornaments. this one little controversial. you can see it here. don where he now our fun apparel. they kind of changed the christmas lyrics to this one. they're getting a little criticized fo

so it might start briefly as snow around pennsylvania, washington, d.c. and philadelphia, but that rain-snow line pushes north, still very heavy rain pushes in but low clouds and heavy rain will make travel difficult there on wednesday. it eventually will intensify and change our weather for thanksgiving. i'll look at that with the complete national forecast coming up. >> dave warren thank you so much. thousands of soldiers coming back from war looking for work. coming up, we'll tell you how veterans are using unique loans to start their own businesses. journalists brings you up to the minute coverage of today's events... then, at 9 and midnight. america tonight goes deeper with groundbreaking investigative coverage of the nation's top stories... >> a fresh take on the stories that connect to you... >> live news at 8 and 11 eastern followed by america tonight on al jazeera america there's more to it. >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jaze

of pennsylvania. there are a couple of major cities that have challenges around gun issues, you have to inform people about all the issues and sometimes the minority because they're well resourced can get messaging out that that distorts what the actual issues are. yes, pennsylvania has a lot of veterans, we're pro veterans in the state. that doesn't mean that pennsylvania is pro war. but war is sold to constituents as not what they really are. the iraq war was that, afghanistan was that, and the reason why we can't get the proper sort of political cache around -- >> michelle, my question now, because i think we were sold into the iraq war by a less than articulate president, a less than ingenious president, by some great editorial op-ed writing by the people in the "washington post," very smart people, i think it was an intellectual argument they made and they won with. i don't think it was a big propaganda war, that was sold to the people intellectually. why were we so hawkish back in 2002? was it 9

it will clear up by the away, b afternoon, but severe storm watch in pennsylvania, and that's for gusts up to 60 miles per hour. so as far as the storm goes, it will move quickly at least, so by this afternoon, most areas will clear out. but again travel problems early today in the east. and it's warm, too. almost humid. over the weekend, we should see an improving forecast this many areas. cooler in the great lakes and that will make it to the northeast on sunday. you just warm and humid. >> when i came in, i was shocked at how strong the winds were. >> and they were get stronger. >> okay. thank, bill. >>> just ahead, the most exciting new potato chip to come along in a long time. and police behind an incredibly sophisticated drug tunnel along with thousands of pounds of pot and company cape. the secret is out. hydration is in. [ female announcer ] only aveeno daily moisturizing lotion has an active naturals oat formula that creates a moisture reserve so skin can replenish itself. aveeno® naturally beautiful results. afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announce

there is the cold air, though, toronto and western pennsylvania, seeing those temperatures start to drop as we dry out. low clouds and poor visibility, planes traveling into those areas are being delayed at their source. it is clear in boston and d.c. with just less than 15 minutes. temperature changing, big wind on the way. i'll have the detail coming up. dell? >> dave warren thank you very much. >>> iran and turkey are calling for a ceasefire in syria. iranian media reporting the foreign minister is making the announce inspect tehran. iran has supported the assad regime while turkey is backing the rebels. >>> iran's foreign minister defending the deal he made with world leaders. some conservative lawmakers there are opposed to the agreement concerning iran's nuclear program, but the deal does have widespread public support. calling for the easing of sanctions if iran rolls back advances in its nuclear program. >>> security forces in egypt are cracking down on activists who took to the streets in defy of the new protest law. security forces firing tear gas and detaining more than 79 peo

story assimilar pennsylvania's. i can say with confidence as well as a former prosecutor, members, that we can have it all in one sense. we can have better public safety at less cost with less crime and less citizens as him -- and less ricidivism. i will tell you it was no honor when the future will trust in their project made us the poster child for prison growth in 2008. they released a report called one in 100, which did for the proposition that one in 100 adults in this country were behind bars. in kentucky that rate was one in 92. as an aside, there were one and 31 adults under some form of correctional control. it is a stunningly high. i think it should hit all of us. in the decade ending doesn't think about the growth rate was almost quadrupled the national average. we were at 45% of the rest of the country. to put that even in greater context, let me tell you that we comprise up to five percent of the world possible relation, but we house 25% of the world cost visitors. the techie was the epicenter of prison

,ork pennsylvania to louisiana louisiana to alabama. i was taken to alabama by bus on a sunday by myself. no one else but me. , to alabama. thursday was transferred back to alabama on the bus -- >> back to louisiana. >> back to louisiana. from louisiana i went to the federal penitentiary, oakdale. everywhere i go, like every two or three days, packed it up, you're leaving. i question to the officials, why am i being transferred so much? i was told by several ice officers i got caught up into the transfer. >> i want to ask you about tiombe carlos who died in to held for nearly three years despite her well- documented mental illness. she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 15. physicians for human rights verified that in 20 11. the recommended intense medical treatment and also suggested she be put in the care for family, but she wasn't, and committed suicide. did you know her in prison? >> they separate the female and male's, but i have been imprisoned for so long, other individuals tell me about her situation. what i

that's why it's still closed, at least southbound on 295 at pennsylvania avenue. let's take a live look outside and show what you it looks like here if you're planning to head into cheverly, you're still going to be okay at route 50 and 202 and no problems on the bw parkway coming in from greenbelt. back to the maps and this time up north to 270, 109, 121 and all way down to rockville. we'll take another live look, this time 66 on the inbound side at the beltway. no delays coming in from manassas to centreville and all the way into fairfax. back to you, andrea and mike. >> thank you, monika. >>> one of the hardest things about being in the military is being away from family, especially during the holidays. the call of duty is always there disrupting family life. that's when the uso of metropolitan washington steps in. a sort of surrogate family if you will through a program called turkeys for troops. >> reporter: family is everything to staff sergeant anthony nelson. >> we're in the military. we're tough, right? but deep down i'm a family guy. i love family. i jus

rolling out on to pennsylvania avenue now. several members of the immediate family. >> that is pennsylvania avenue. in front of the white house. [inaudible conversations] ♪ ♪ >> i have something in this -- perhaps something additional may be said about the unbelievable crowds of people who pass through the rotunda of the capitol last night. as is usual there is little or no way to measure the edification to measure the identification of a president with the people, but perhaps there was in this capital city last night the closest that they have felt for him as evidenced in the thousands which formed an endless stream of humanity on the streets down below the capitol plaza. ground slowly up to the great doors, to the solemn and dimly lighted rotunda and in the great dome of the capitol and then out again to disperse and still down capitol hill. and from what unbelievable distances people have come to pay their last respects today. striding into washington last night the traffic was heavy with automobiles bearing license pla

as you travel northbound and southbound forced off at pennsylvania avenue. that's where the work zone is. so that's your work around. shooting out to route 50 this morning, nice and clear from the bay bridge as you travel inbound to the beltway. no issues there. a live look at landover road, clear as you connect to new york avenue. back in ten minutes. aaron and eun, over to you. >>> growing 0 opposition to the redskins name. the latest local group trying to pressure the team to make some changes. >> bitter cold tempe >>> i'm molette green at the live desk. protests erupt in ukraine this morning. take a look at the video that just came into the newsroom. after camping 0 out in a sevcenl kiev square, protesters tried to march a right up to the government building to block the entrance. security forces counter trying to push the crowd back possibly using pepper spray there. this crowd of thousands unhappy over the ex-soviet state's decision to turn down a deal that would move ukraine closer with the european union. the formal agreement was supposed to come at

i give you a snapshot of pennsylvania coal. we represent pennsylvania ranks fourth in it comes to coal mining in the country. we have over 41,000 jobs. $7.5 billion impact any significant role in the electricity production and our commonwealth over 42%. .. the department of environmental protection in pennsylvania says that our levels will be below the 2,005 co2 levels. that would be 17% reduction. by the way, ironically that is what the president is asking for it in his reduction plans are if you get out of our way we could actually get it done with our market forces. one of the things we like to argue that talk about many times is that right now it is suffering three challenges. the first two are normal. one is the economy. no one is arguing that we are out of the recession yet and that's having a tremendous impact. and the energy usage side so that the market. natural gas right now is that one of the lowest it's ever been. no one's arguing again although i would point to the updating numbers about 250 something three of last

mainly to flights to pennsylvania and also to new jersey. overall, though, no widespread delays or cancellations to report on from this airport. jim? >> that's great to hear. the country's busiest has a big carry on effect around the country, as well. we're going to go for the latest weather to meteorologist jennifer grey can traing the storm for our new york weather center. where is being hardest hit? i get the sense it's in the northeastern area of pennsylvania going north from there? >> you're right. most of it is rain. we are still seeing snow, about you a lot of the snow is tapering off. we could see an additional maybe 2 to 4 inches, maybe isolated higher amounts say in upstate new york and interior locations. if you look right along the coast, new york, washington, boston, that's where we're seeing basically rain. we could see 2 to 4 additional inches before it's all said and done. but this low is going to continue to move on out of here. tonight at 8:00, you can see new york looking much drier as well as dc. still a little bit of rai

>> it's pennsylvania and upstate new york right now. but there's an awful lot of rain still coming down notice shenandoah valley and parts west of d.c. it's 33. when the sunsets, it's not going to be 33. it's going to be 32, 31. and that's going to freeze. so yes, we're still seeing is the snow up here across pennsylvania. i mean altoona, dubois, all these areas that's all snow coming down. what you're seeing with shannon is some of the melting on the roadways but that will stop when the sunsets. that's pittsburgh. and everything else all down here that's all rain. you think it's just rain. that's no big deal. well, this is a map of atlanta in the rain. here's the center of atlanta right there. that's what we call the perimeter. here's one major artery. i-85, shut down right there because of two tractor-trailers that collided just northeast of atlanta georgia. probably shut down in the southbound direction until 38 p.m. look the an your clock. that's a ways away. here comes the rain. charleston back -- even rain can make a big problem.

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in pennsylvania bev the pennsylvania fair care fund, and i need to tell you, people with preexisting conditions are already benefiting. a personal story. my sister-in-law's aunt was diagnosed with a very dangeroussh a lethal form of cancer. we tried to sign her up with about 60 different insurance companies. nobody would touch her. then be found out about the p.a. fair care plan and that they would subs died, they saved her life. they did. >> and these programs have been around for years. we should encourage them. that's part of our plan, to actually supplement state high-risk pools, because they're far more efficient than the government high-risk pool. >> i want to go back to the political consequences of this, because i think all of these issues will be sorted out over time, hopefully. those poll numbers i put up about obama's program. to me i'm far less concerned about the legacy, and i'm sure, consequenceman you're less concerned than preserving your values and principles. i think ultimately that faith in government is in jeopardy here. let's do what john judas said to liberals i

getting good snows through eastern sections of pennsylvania and upstate new york. temperatures, 36 downtown. 39, 36 in gaithersburg. 39 downtown and 37 in manassas. the winds are a factor. gusting to 25 in gaithersburg. gusting to 24 downtown, which means it feels like it's in the 20s. heading out tonight, please bundle up. teens are on the way in terms of windchills. we'll let you know if this will freeze and take you through the holiday weekend. >> thanks, top. again, no major holiday travel troubles to speak of here in our area. that winter storm that topper has been talking all object causing gridlock in other parts of the northeast. in new york, 50-mile per hour winds brought down power lines and heavy rain made for a pretty treacherous drive along the jam packed i-95 corridor. accidents also piled up in parts of ohio and pennsylvania. >> just trying to concentrate. it wasn't anything else, trying to focus. >> there's a lot of pooling on the roads, so traction is difficult. police reports are full of spinouts and all of the roads. >> more than 230 flights have

this is a line of storms that moved through pennsylvania in the last six hours. wind damage, and trees down and power outage. here in new jersey and many up here through new england. wind causing damage with the trees. and that line will continue to move east. ering severe thunderstorm warnings, and damaging winds expected as the showers and storms move through. it has moved through manhattan and long isle. and the next six hours, it will be off the coast. a brief period of heavy rain and the wind will pick up. now, the wind may die down a little bit. but eventual the storm intensifies and creates more wind over the weekend. many arrival delays in new york and la guardia, and jfk and washington d.c. not seeing much in travel delays. it's improving through the day as the storms move out. rain now, it's cooler and it will be windy. the wind could easily gust up to 55 miles per hour as the storm intensifies in eastern canada. drier there. and this area will see the wind pick up and the temperatures drop as it brings in even colder air through the weekend. del? >> it

the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: i rise to claim time in opposition and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. shuster: i thank the madam speaker. the committee supports the national dam safety program. in fact, i commend the gentleman from new york to be working on the dam act, because as a freshman several years ago, 12 years ago, it was my first piece of legislation that i authored, the dam bill. so, again, this is a critical program that saves lives, it protects communities and that is why we included language in h.r. safety mprove the dam program. there are minor differences between the house and the senate language. we look forward to working on reconciling those differences. and as the legislation moves forward and while we expect we will continue to have some negotiations with the senate on this issue, i am not opposed to the motion to instruct on this provision. and with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: th

on the highways here in pennsylvania, dale? >> dianne joining us live from pittsburgh, thank you very much. al jazeera robert gray is at the country's busiest airport hatsville jackson in atlanta, robert how is the storm effecting people down south? >> so far so good here. minimal delays and we only saw one cancellation on the board, a steady stream of people coming in and out of the airport, you can hear the planes taking off and landing but the problem is this radar here. you can see up and down the eastern seaboard, even into the south, splotches of green and blue. 100% precipitation. passengers are. >> i think people expect a better weather for the thanksgiving. that might be a little disappointing. >> i hope it is just bad prediction. >> now, here at the busiest airport in the world, in atlanta, they are expecting a uptick of about 3.3% in travelers moving in and out of this airport over the next week. but today looked to be okay here, temperatures are in the mid 30's and the rain keeps falling. and people to stop coming i

would contaminate an area quote the size of pennsylvania. you don't want to have an energy source that has one bite of the apple. you have a disaster whether it's due to sabotage, earthquake, horrendous hurricane or human error or design defect. any of those. if you have one major disaster, it will affect all other nuclear plants. you know that. >> this fear mongering that you've been doing for 40 years has been effective in halting the growth of nuclear energy. you've stopped it. you and the environmental movement have stopped it. 20% of our electricity. that 20% saved 1.7 million lives. millions of other lives would have been saved had we had zero pollution energy. instead, this kind of fear mongering -- look at the record. 40 years we've had three bad accidents. chernobyl, the world health organization says 70 people have died. outside of the soviet union and fukushima and three mile island, nobody has died. by contrast, coal kills over 300,000 people per year. so you can kind of paint these grand scare theories. but the reality, there's

. >> shannon travis is in pennsylvania. jennifer grey in the cnn weather center. shannon, do you see a lot of snow in pittsburgh? it's chill u out there, i can tell already. >> a little chilly for anybody who thinks it's quaint to have a snowy thanksgiving, kind of consider this mother nature's gift. but obviously, no one should be fooled because this can be dangerous stuff. it's coming down, coming on and off in pittsburgh. they're expecting it potentially 5 to 9 inches over the next few hours, between last night and what dropped. i want to show you where we are. we're near the airport at an intersection of road, suzanne, we've been monitoring all day, traffic has been moving. but it seems as if the cars are moving a little bit slowly. we have noticed a number of crews out with salt trucks and plaus to make th s plows to make sure the road stays cleared. this road right here clear as ever because of the crews with

look at that in pennsylvania. many major cities like philadelphia, new york and boston not expected to get hit too hard but we have already seen major travel snarls that will likely only get worse. now, we know how aggravating this kind of holiday weather is, so here's a list of phrases you will not hear over the next hour. we will not refer to snow as the white stuff at any point. there will be no mention of jack frost or his fixation with your nose. at no point will we use the phrase winter wonderland. it's not even winter. under no circumstances will we tell travelers to pack your patience because the overhead bins are already full. with that in mind, we have meteorologist chad myers in the cnn severe weather center. we are outside in pittsburgh in the snow. and martin savidge inside the busiest airport in the world in atlanta. chad, i want to start with you. a lot of people are reading the fine print on their airline refund policies right now. we have a full disclosure policy so please disclose how bad is it o

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richard is live along pennsylvania avenue. >> certainly an emotional evening for many people. folks cannot believe it has been 50 years. anyone alive at the time remembers exactly where they were. ♪ at the cathedral of saint matthew the apostle -- >> 50 years ago, president kennedy was called home. >> a mass of remembrance for a slain president. hise days after assassination, president kennedy's funeral service was held here. >> we remember a president who gave us a sense of service to our country. single candle marks the spot where his casket was placed. eddie sullivan was in washington that november 22. -- betty sullivan was in washington that november 22. there were public moments of mourning. i never thought i would feel the way i feel today. i did not hear any shots. >> and then there is dan rather. emotions,g your own can this be happening in america? >> we remember john kennedy in prayer. >> part of that funeral procession along pennsylvania avenue was used by one million people and millions more on television. there is some opposition from the top about allowing cell

here this is coming down as snow across northwestern pennsylvania and western new york as it spreads up north through new england. the temperatures will continue to warm, but we're looking at large amounts of snowfall in new york, pennsylvania and along the u.s.-canada border. now tuesday to wednesday even though it's all rain here, we'll have snow to the north, these are travel delays for the biggest travel day of the year here, wednesday. and then on thursday the storm will be off the coast. it will dry out and brisk wind will come in from the northwest. winds could be gusting 40 to 50 mph from you virginia, philadelphia, new york and new england. it's a cold wind and that cold air continues to push in from the north. here is the snow across chicago. light snow as it moves east. the storm will take with it, so the dryout will get a little colder over the next few days. >> dave warren, thank you very much. thank you for watching al jazeera america. i'm del walters in new york. "the stream" is next and you can check us out 24 hours a day on www.aljazeera.com. we'll see you then. >> h

yeah, the folks in new york and pennsylvania bracing for a lot of snow and a lot of rain. interestingly, i heard from quite a few parents concerned about their kids driving back from college. yet another thing to be concerned about. brian? >> absolutely. tom costello starting us off from pittsburgh, thanks. >>> i want to take a look at live pictures from i-90 up in buffalo where they don't scare easily in winter. so the traffic is moving along, but we talk about the northern reaches of this storm. they're expecting 8 to 12 inches of snow before it's all over. tonight meteorologist janice huff has been kind enough to join us to look at where this is going and what's in store. janice, i understand the winds on the back end are going to make for kind of a second wave of flight problems. >> reporter: exactly. and that's going to come behind this system. the winds ahead of this system may gust up to 60 miles an hour in the northeast along the coastline. wind, rain, snow and now even the potential for tornadoes from myrtle beach down to jacksonville and from tallahassee to tampa

slick roads in central pennsylvania. snow is starting to fall. and it is expected to keep getting heavier in the hours ahead. >> looks like many people in many ohio are set to have a white thanksgiving. snow is on the ground. and temperatures are staying in the low 30s. also, check out this traffic backup in milwaukee. talk about a commute there. a long all of commute. you can bet you'll be seeing lots of this sort of stuff as the storm keeps moving to the northeast and lots of accidents, unfortunately, as well. >> i get on the highway. next thing i know i'm spinning. >> people don't realize when they cross the bridges they've got ice on them. when they cross it, they lose it. >> cnn is covering this storm and lou it will affect your holiday travel plans like no one else. our crews in position right across the country. >> the an lynnal muchado in atlanta, martin savidge it, chad myers in the cnn weather center. >> an lynn fla is here in atlanta. in the south, it's getting soaked, alina. >> soaked is a good way of putting it. it's been raining her