some philadelphia neighborhoods, philadelphia in general, is just that democratic. that you can get 59 wards with zero votes for mitt romney, but in the fifth division of the 56th ward in philadelphia, this week, the democratic candidate lost. it was a race to be an election judge, the democratic candidate lost the race by 12 votes and the democratic lost to this guy. who is not a democrat. he's also not a republican. despite the fact he's sitting there with abe lincoln. he also stopped being an independent years ago. turns out this guy and the only party that can beat the democratic party in philadelphia right now, it's the whig party. w-h-i-g. yep. the elections judge is a member of the whig party, like it's 1840. somebody dress me up like henry clay and make me a drink. you can catch philadelphia's latest whig party official on up this saturday morning, but if you want to hear the most amazing election result yet from america's cities this year, it is not actually the fact that philadelphia has elected its first whig party official since the 1800s. there's someth

we really tried. >> by the time philadelphia rescue crews get him up from the riverbank and to a local hospital, it's too late. matthew buford is dead. >> no one will ever know for sure whether he could have been saved. garrett couples says he doesn't blame the crowd or the police for not jumping in if they weren't properly trained. but he says it's hard to believe with so many authorities on the scene that none of them knew how to make a water rescue. >> i mean, it's -- it doesn't make sense to me that you have fire rescue within two blocks, marine rescue within two miles, and none of them are trained in water rescue. to me, that is -- i mean, that's unspeakable. >> after the incident, the victim's family files a complaint and the philadelphia police department conducts an internal investigation. the internal investigation concludes that their officers provided adequate service. as soon as police were notified of buford's position, they dispatch a negotiator and within minutes also call their marine unit. but the marine unit, though based nearby, had been dispatched to another river e

native joe slabojen is a veteran staff writer for "the philadelphia inquirer." over his 30-year career of following court cases, he thought he had seen it all until he watches the footage captured by septa security cameras. >> she's seen on there making a cell phone call holding it up to her ear. she turns and says something to mr. pickett, and the bus stops, door opens and she exits. >> the call is to her friends now waiting at her stop. she told them about her confrontation with mr. pickett. and they are armed and ready for action. >> it looked like at first he was helping her get off, but i noticed when he, like, seemed to grab her, i knew something was wrong. >> septa security footage captures exactly what's wrong in stunning detail. >> as she's exiting, another young man is coming toward the bus and she says something to him. from what the prosecutor said, she pointed out mr. pickett and said i want you to shoot that guy. >> as the mom and her son get off, one man goes in the front door and gestures for everyone to come to the front steps. meanwhile, his fr

here's a closer look at philadelphia and new york city area. light rain for new york city. new york city has a chance to see snowflakes also. as far as the forecast, the falling temperatures and this is cold. this is a day you typically see maybe in late december. high in chicago of 33. that's it. that's as warm as you'll get. wind chills in the 20. only last about two days. will be 50s and 60s in many spots over the weekend. >> coming up at the top of the morning "morning joe," chris christie and hillary clinton head-to-head. 2016. the revealing poll numbers and how that could impact their strategies and when we come back here around the cooler, he's calling it alcohol without the hangover. how a controversial drug expert says how it will work and when it will be available on the market. mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971. afghanistan in 2009. on the u.s.s. saratoga in 1982. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serv

philadelphia only another couple of hours of rain. stopped rains about noon or so. boston you have to wait until about 5:00 or 6:00 where the strongest winds are. that's about it. by 7:00 p.m., the grown and the brighter colors on the rain is gone. left over snow for the friends in western new york and pittsburgh. the forecast doesn't look too bad. the middle of the nation is very cold and low, but it's crystal clear and dry. again, all that windy cold air arrives in new york and d.c. the parade only had the balloons canceled once in 87 years. i don't think they will all be canceled. >> hopefully that continues. we love the balloons. a record number of stores are challenging tradition and opening on thanksgiving to kickoff the black friday shopping season. nbc's john yang joins us with more on the earlier hours. there is mixed reaction from shoppers. a lot of folks are saying this is consumerism and some people like to do this. this is what they do. not as many thursdays between now and christmas and that's the reason why stores are doing this, right? >> that's righ

philadelphia indemnity insurance investigators are suspicious of house's claim. >> it went from, you know, the quote/unquote soggy bugatti to maybe something larger going on here with the insurance fraud. >> the insurance company notes that house put 1,200 miles on the car in just 3 weeks and he leaves the engine running for more than 15 minutes after the crash. causing unnecessary damage. but it's garza's video, widely circulated by the press and online, that becomes the linchpin of the insurance company's argument. when philadelphia indemnity reviews the footage, it claims house's story of the pelican rings false. >> there's the question that everyone wants to know. where is the pelican? >> i don't see a pelican, but it was a cell phone video. maybe the pelican was higher and out of focus. >> i never saw any type of low-flying object, bird, plane, what have you, and neither did my friend sitting next to me. >> the insurance company accuses house of intentionally driving the bugatti into the lagoon to destroy the car and collect insurance worth $2.2 million. house denies the allegat

you know, mike schmidt is one of the best to play for the philadelphia phillies. he said playing for philadelphia you have to throw a victory and the agony of reading about it next day in the newspaper. that's what this deal is. this is a historic, great first step. and you have people like josh bolton who called it an abject surrender. you have guys saying this is like wag the dog the movie. this isn't hollywood. this is real life. this is leadership. this is about barack obama and john kerry leading the way so we don't have to fight unnecessary wars. >> you know, joan, but this is essential obama. this is what he ran on. >> right. >> this is what he said he was going to do. this is what he promised that he would try diplomacy first. but in addition to calling this a distraction from obama care, i'm talking about those on the right, they blasted the agreement with absurd comparisons. they said this is worse than munich meaning it's worse than appeasing the nazis. one right wing pundit even congratulated iran on its acquisition of the bomb. >> and i'm supposed to

he's heading out to philadelphia, glendale, dreamworks there. he's talking about getting vice president paoeuden out there, cabinet members. they're all heading out to highlight the economic gains. it seems like there are two economies. look at the green numbers. and look at the numbers, by the way. but the persistent unemployment. so how difficult a message is this going to be for the administration to deliver? >> yes, the unemployment rate stays where it is. people do see wall street is doing quite well. what the white house is trying to do is say, hey, yes, the the numbers aren't great but things are come back. part of the reason he's going to the west coast is he has a series of fund-raisers for house campaign committees. making good on promises he had given to them earlier in the year. yes, he is giving an economic speech at the dreamworks studio there in california, but that's only after a few fund-raisers in seattle and los angeles next sunday and monday. >> juana, another big talk this week was the afghanistan issue. is it a done deal th

philadelphia, pennsylvania. max schultz of harrisburg is celebrating his 15th birthday in the city of brotherly love. >> we kind of just drove around the city, did all the usual philadelphia tourist things. >> when max and his family return to their hotel at night, there's a wedding taking place. >> as we were walking into hotel, there was a sign outside that said, you know, welcome, wedding guests. we saw some people around dressed fancy. >> when the schultz family turns in for the night, the wedding guests continue to party on the floor below. >> the wedding party had been going on kind of all night. we've been hearing them yell, yell and shout and it sounds like you're having a good time. but i realize, you know, hey, like, these people don't really sound like they're having fun anymore. >> when he woke me up in the middle of the night, he said, hey, mom, something major's going on. we have to go down and check it out. >> just to give you the idea of a noise level, i sleep with ear plugs and a noise machine,

the same with philadelphia, baltimore, all the way down to d.c. into richmond. as far as new england goes, if you wait until 4:00 or 5:00, it will be kicking through, exiting, into boston late this afternoon, your weather will dramatically improve. the worst of the airport delays the worst of everything is now up until ability 7:00, 8:00 a.m. in new york city until about noon in boston. >> oh my gosh, that's horrible. at this point if you are traveling by plane, train, even automobile, you are going to be stuck. >> strain trains should be fine unless a tree falls on your tracks. airports will be playing catch up all afternoon. >> it will be incredibly crowded, though. >> i am cooking and shopping in the next 22 days. >> see i knew i'd find one. you metro detroit be a good man. >> don't let anyone know. >> i won't. the supreme court will hear another legal challenge to the health care lawless tan two years after the signature piece of ljslation t. court will take up the law's contraception mandate which requires insurer plans to provide forms of birth control, in

when philadelphia indemnity reviews the footage, it claims house's story of the pelican rings false. >> there's the question that everyone wants to know. where is the pelican? >> i don't see a pelican, bu it was a cell phone video. maybe the pelican was higher and out of focus. >> i never saw any type of low-flying object, bird, plane, what have you, and neither did my friend sitting next to me. >> the insurance company accuses house of intentionally driving the bugatti into the lagoon to destroy the car and collect insurance worth $2.2 million. house denies the allegations and countersues to collect the insurance. the matter is not resolved. while the court of public opinion devours the story, garza's video racks up millions of views. >> oh, [ bleep ]. oh, [ bleep ]. oh, [ bleep ]. >>> a dashboard camera captures a dramatic attack. a man on the hood of a vehicle attempting to break the windshield using a baseball bat. [ shriek ] august 30th, 2011. taiwan. about an hour outside taipei. a woman and her daughter are driving down a narrow street when they encounter a car going in the op

. >>> vettens statementian in philadelphia being demolished almost ten years ago. while the building is long gone, the people of philadelphia are still paying for that stadium. the good people of philly won't be done paying for the stadium, which is part of the initial $25,000 bond authorize said in 1964, until some time next year. that's because the best hustle going in north america today is not selling junk insurance. it's not even selling crack in toronto. the best hustle going in north america is shaking down a city for money for your sports team. in the most recent shakedown comes from the atlanta braves. >> we have made the announcement that we intend to build a new stadium on the intersection of i-75 and 285, and our new stadium at that location will be available for opening day 2017. according the the atlanta journal constitution, the deputy chief operating officer for the city of atlanta told the braves during the meeting to negotiate a new stadium lease. it's not as if you could move anywhere. that encounter, which city officials deny, we're told is what

the cold front is now slicing through new york city, philadelphia and d.c. this is as warm as it's going to get. get much colder as the day goes on. here's the snow. you can see it on the map. much of central pennsylvania has gotten a coating of snow. pittsburgh area. a lot of it is not sticking on the paved surfaces. now it's spreading in to west virginia. as far as the goes today be prepared for the cold air, loin 28. that's it for a high in minneapolis today. very cold into the investigation ohio valley and that cold air sweeping into the east. good news it's short-lived. cold tonight and we warm it up towards the weekend. >> snow that doesn't stick isn't so bad because you can enjoy watching it fall and you don't have to clean it up. >> if you look out the window here in new york in about two hours you might see some flakes. >> coming up walmart joins the thanksgiving rush. plus a touching show of support as hundreds of strangers show up for a british war veteran's funeral. >>> now to some stories making news this morning. a michigan police chase ended w

we will see heavier rains even up from boston, new york city, and some lighter rain, philadelphia to d.c. the timing of that around noon to 2:00. most will all be gone about the time we get through 6 p.m. compareded to what they're going through in the philippines, we don't have a lot of bad weather. thoughts and prayers to them, because they're about to go through a horrible tragedy. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," some are calling it the beginning of chris christie's presidential campaign. some fellow republicans are not hopping on the band wagon yesterday. when we come back, we'll huddle around the cooler. there's bad driving and then there's this. it's a hit and hit and hit and eventually run. we'll be right back. [ man ] adventure, it means taking chances. it means trying something new. [ woman ] that uncertainty of what's to come. ♪ ♪ >>> at the top of the show we talk about twitter and highly anticipated ipo which starts trading today. if you want to sound smart, tell your friend, on average people send 500 million tweets per day. the most tweeted tv

., philadelphia, baltimore. thursday we'll see the front come through with a bit of light rain. have you noticed how dry it's been? >> yeah. >> been a while since it's rained significantly in the mid-atlantic and new england. >> raking is easy. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," live from washington, d.c., chris christie, terry mcauliffe, the big winners on election day. their victories may have largem. when we come back, we'll huddle around the cooler. now that we know ford is smoking crack, jimmy kimmel shows how to know if your mayor is doing the same. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ m'm... ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.® >>> at the top of the show we talked about the results in the race for virginia. if you want to sound smart tell your friends democrats have not held all five statewide posts

i think the blue collar workers, places where i'm from, suburban philadelphia, this is an issue that really hits close to home, and i think that when you've got -- you're only making a couple more than $7 an hour and you have folks saying, hey, maybe it's time to raise this thing, i think there's an appeal here, and it's a really tough argument if you're a republican, and you're saying that you don't want to raise the minimum wage, and i think there are a lot of compelling stories that we could start to hear about folks who can't make ends meet. particularly around the holidays. >> right. >> about minimum wage. >> on the other hand, republicans are going to say that it's going to stall job growth and it's going to hurt employers. a lot to debate. thanks for your insight and coming in on black friday. >> i'm still emerging from my turkey coma. >> i know. time to go shopping, right? >> my mom made turkey last night. >> all right. take care. >>> bill karins and t.j. holmes will be back for "first buzz" including what did nets' coach jason kidd say that got him slapped with a $50,000 fin

la guardia airport reporting three hour delays and philadelphia two hour delays. the line of storm, the red line is across pennsylvania. now arriving towards the philadelphia suburb and areas of new york city approaching the jersey and pennsylvania line. when it comes through, winds gust up to 60. we had 100 to 200,000 people lose power in the pennsylvania area because of this line of storms. this will roll through new york city areas through the next two hours. you don't want to be caught outdoors when the storm goes through especially near big trees. a lot of trees have been falling down in pennsylvania and western new york. we will keep you updated in the populated areas in new york. >> thank you so much. we appreciate it in a dangerous situation especially the east coast area. be watching out. now from the white house, we have jay carney. jay, we have old white house hands with us. mark mckin on and mark wallace. been there, done that. >> i love those guys. the band is back together. >> brian shackman with mika. >> give them the negative headlines whether it's

so, a little bit warmer than yesterday, especially there at pittsburgh, philadelphia and d.c. and there's a warming trend out through about thursday. as far as the rest of the country goes, all the travel troubles going to be in the middle of the country where we're going to be watching this next storm coming in. winter weather advisories. yes, a little mini winter storm from the mountains of colorado all the way up through minneapolis. we're not talking about really crazy, huge totals, but we will be seeing a little bit of snow out there. rapid city's already getting a little bit. later on tonight is when it will move into areas like minneapolis. maybe 4 inches possible, so that's significant for the first snow of the season. other areas of rain will be from dallas all the way up to chicago. so, again, east coast travels, no problem, mara. it's right in the heartland where we'll have some issues. >> seems like it just got cold suddenly in general. just happened overnight. >> it's not going to last, though. you don't need your winter coat probably the next two days, even in th

and philadelphia last week, a member of the whig party was not only on the ballot, he won.

so here he is, robert heshy bucholz, joining us from philadelphia. tell me, they tell me to call you heshy, so welcome. i got to ask you, we all read about the whig party in our history books. a name we laugh at, seems like such an anachronistic thing. why would you say in the year 2013 i want to align with the whig party? what does that mean to you? >> i didn't identify growing up with either the democrats or the republicans. especially these days where they -- we have the shouting at each other. to me, the whigs were a third way. they were neither liberal nor conservative. they arrived at their platform through consensus, through their online forums, their round tables that they're starting up now. so it spoke to me and it spoke to the voters whose doors i knocked on. i mean, my district is not a heavily whig district. and -- >> there aren't many of those in america these days. it sounds like you're saying the whig message spoke to you. sounds like there is actually an organized whig presence around you? are there meetings? are there other whigs in

i think the worst of the airports, as far as the big ones go, the new york citys, the dulles, philadelphia, boston, will be late tonight, early wednesday. it gets better through wednesday afternoon. >> that's a little bit of good news, but it's still probably going to create traffic -- >> just the volume alone and this on top of it. >> yeah what a headache. thanks, bill. >>> we are less than 24 hours away from the busiest travel day of the year and 48 million of us are expected to take to the roads and air this week. sarah dallof is joining us from o'hare international airport. sarah, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, mara. believe it or not, the number of people traveling this year is actually slightly down as compared to last year, but this nasty weather means airports and roads are going to be as crowded as ever. before the crush of holiday travelers has even left home, a wallop of winter weather is causing flight delays and cancellations, stranding passengers and making for dangerous driving conditions. and mother nature isn't done yet. >> and the weather just isn't going to cle

as far as the airports go, philadelphia with a minor delay. as we go through the day, i think we could have significant rains. heavy rain in the southwest. light rain showers moving through the northeast. jfk to boston. it's cold in the central planes and oklahoma city at 29. freezing rain in areas of west texas towards oklahoma city and snow. significant snow in northern new mexico and southern colorado. enjoy the warmth while it lasts. the arctic air goes through chicago and makes its way to the east coast on sunday. by the way, next week on wednesday, a nor'easter with heavy rain. the busiest travel day of the year. a good possibility of rain next wednesday. we leave you with a shot of a wet and drizzly time square. sunday it will be frigid. enjoy the warmth. you are watching "morning joe." i started part-time, now i'm a manager.n. my employer matches my charitable giving. really. i get bonuses even working part-time. where i work, over 400 people are promoted every day. healthcare starting under $40 a month. i got education benefits. i wor

it goes through philadelphia and baltimore and overnight by wednesday morning. it be over there by you in d.c. >> we will have a horrible normal travel day. >> they may not get there tuesday night. if you have a late flight, hopefully it will get there. have faith. >> thank you, sir. time now for today's data bank. we are kicking off stunning student low numbers. christmas tree and a zombie protest. we will try to have zombies every day for the next two weeks. if we don't, they will be in my brain. where the number is now two, the number of women on the democratic ticket. say thes s eenator will be run with wendy davis hoping to become the state's first democratic governor. they show tray are trailing the governor, but only in the single digits. it will be interesting there. 41.3 billion is the federal government's profit on student loan debt for the last fiscal year. all but two ku678s in the entire world. members of congress propsed to take a look at the issue in the coming months. can you call it a profit if this part of the federal government makes money whi

philadelphia, you are all clear. new york city, you are all clear. line of storms trying to move up over the top of providence, right now, boston. still could get strong gusty winds that could take down some isolated trees. for the most part, the worst of our stormy weather, the tornadoes and wind damage is ending, mika. the cleanup weather for the forecast is just fine for illinois and indiana. as you see from the damage, a long, long road ahead. >> bill, thanks so much. >> we'll get to you later. >> robert, we're going to go -- break into washington news. i guess the headline over the weekend was that the president and his team are suggesting that there are going to be some changes in the white house. that this rollout was a failure and it sounds like we're going to look at a new -- you know, new leaders in the administration in the coming years. >> i do think one of the things to sort of instill confidence in leadership after the rollout is to make some sort of change in those that were responsible for the rollout. i don't think there's any doubt

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he seems like one of those people around philadelphia that i know, that they say they're not part of the tea party. every once in a while they vote in a different way, but it seems lake they're still with them on who the leaders are. if they go with the tea party people, they always go with it. >> you know what, you know, frac lobondy exercises a convenient bipartisanship. and by that, he votes his district when it won't hurt the republican party. he says he's not part of the tea party, he says he's not part of the irresponsible actions of the republican party. but the fact of the matter is, he only votes his district and has only voted his district when the republican leadership allows him to and when it won't impact the outcome of the vote. >> what do your people think of the tea party? >> you know, our people, as in south jersey, they are sick and tired of the games in washington. and, you know, the encouragement that i'm getting, interestingly, chris, is not just from democrats. it's from republicans and independents. and my decision to run has as much to do by the very conservat

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. >> i remember in the '90s when i moved to philadelphia, i went to temple and i was at the gas station and someone asked where i was from. dallas. it was an older attendant, he said with a smirk, you're from where we killed the president. i've never heard anyone say that to me and here i was 19, 18 years old and that was my first exposure really to how the rest of the world saw us. >> you know, i think, part of this at one point there were a group of people in dallas who wanted to level the school book depository, the museum now. in the fact, cooler heads prevailed and they said, no, we're not going to erase history, we're going to embrace this history, a memorial and school book depository and accept what's happened here. dallas for lived for years as we know under a psychological shadow. that shadow is not gone yet. you heard the mayor today, mayor rollins make a reference to dallas, we're not the same city. that was a defense of dallas even today. >> and ft. worth battles with this. i want to play a little bit of the morning, november 22nd, 1963, he made this impromptu appearance. l

an hour delays here at laguardia, and two hours for philadelphia. it's certainly hard getting in there right now. atlanta is seeing a number of delays. so far travelers have been taken it in stride, a lot have getten here early to make flights that aren't delayed. a lot of flights we're seeing aren't having so much troubles as of now. the airlines have let them know their flight is canceled so they stayed home. a lot of new technologies allowing people to not get here and avoid the crowds you might have seen in past years. abby. >> looks like there's a turkey dancing behind you. at least they are entertained by a turkey. watch out for him. a big burly turkey. >> reporter: things are getting kind of weird here and maybe because all of the bars are fully stocked but it's getting odd at the airport. >> i look forward to it. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> we turn to travelo city's courtney scott. we sent ari to seattle so you can join us at the table. you are much better to look at from my perspective, ari, i still love you b

about five speeches from philadelphia to cincinnati to chicago. eventually to sterling heights, michigan. this was the photo op to accompany. >> let me go over to matt. matt, you know, one of the fights i've been having about the president on this show which is we're generally supportive of the goal certainly of health care. but not putting one person particularly in charge of it gets to me. who was particularly responsible for putting that helmet on the head of that guy that made him look like rocky the squirrel and bullwinkle. give me the name. you're not going to do it, are you? >> all right. i'll do it. i will do it. the trip director. his name is jack weeks. he was brought off the plane, there was a lot of concern in boston about this. we were very worried about it on the ground. i had gone for a ride in the tank along with our press guy the day before. i had worn the helmet. i looked horrible. and i told the folks in boston that it was really risky. so they brought my boss, essentially, in to make decisions. he was the guy that did it. i hat

i spent the weekend in philadelphia with democrats who say they are very frustrated and want to see the administration fix it. they remain confident things will sort themselves out. the nation needs to be patient. big laws like this before have been a problem at the beginning but work themselves out and so far they are confident that's what will happen with the healthcare.gov. >> you quote the chair here and he points to battle ground polling numbers that show majority of voters 55% favor democratic plans which they refer to as a fix and improve issue as opposed to republican plan of repeal and defund here and that gives him some in their mind, something to have -- i guess aspire or to have confidence in what's happening here. >> that's why you saw 39 house democrats last friday vote republicans on the proposal that would have allowed insurance companies to continue providing health plans that might not meet new standards of the new law because 39 are probably 39 most vulnerable democrats facing re-election next year. a few of them said, the reason i did that and support anything that w

i'm chris matthews up in philadelphia. let me start tonight with this. you know a politico crowd is going nutty and maybe scared when they start blaming the one guy who won. the crazy angry right of the republican party spent the last several hours attacking new jersey governor chris christie like he was the creature from the black lagoon. all the guy did was manage to carry 60% of a deep blue state to a normal sane political party might offer a map to victory nationwide. didn't happen that way. on tuesday night republicans put up two tea party candidates. one in an alabama primary and the other in the virginia governors race. both lost. the race republicans did win by a blowout was in new jersey where mainstream governor chris christie distanced himself from the tea party extremists. the cruz wing of the party wants you to believe they didn't lose tuesday. they were betrayed. especially in virginia. they hold true to that despite the fact cuccinelli was viewed as the more extreme. our party in many respects in virginia has been taken over by a sideshow.

nbc's philadelphia affiliate wcau first broke the story and an atlantic city police officer who wished to remain anonymous told investigative reporter harry hairston that the cops are just hiding behind their badges. >> some of them wouldn't do this if they didn't have a gun and a badge. cowards. i just think about kids. shattered eye sockets. dog bites. it's wrong, man. it's wrong. >> joining me now are david's parents david and terry cosolani and his lawyer. thank you all for being here. first of all, david, how is your son? >> well, he's in school. he's back in school. however, he's not doing well at all. in addition to the physical injuries, he's suffering every day. nightmares, anxiety. and the stress of these false criminal charges that have been filed against him. >> they filed charges against him? >> yes. >> charging him with what? getting bitten? >> actually they charged him with aggravated assault of the police officers and assault of the dog. aggravated assault of this dog plus disorderly. >> wait a minute. they charged him with assaulting the dog? >> correct. >> yes. >> the

the mayors, if we had a governor, all of the state senators, in philadelphia we had had about 80 public officials standing behind me and we decried the impeachment as purely political, a waste of time, not what the american people wanted in government. and that happened in every major market across the country. why aren't we doing stuff like that today? i don't know if david has the answer. because it's strange. >> he has no friends. i mean active friends. we know on television he does well. they've got a lot of people that know how to make a point. they're not doing it. >> i think they're getting out there -- >> they are? >> you see them on the show. >> oh. i hear silence. >> but at the same time -- >> they come out say we're working on health care. rooer trying. >> by and large, i don't think the white house has fully, you know, joined the battle for the political cultural battle with the republicans. i think the president has been reluctant to do that because he sees himself as president of all america. he doesn't like coming across as the angry guy. he wants to try to make deals. he

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when you look at this and the decision that came out of the third circuit court of appeals in philadelphia where the decision went against the mennonite owned wood company, when you read this tom and you know better than all of us here, we try to understand how two appealed court could see this in such a broadly different way. it's hard to digest, i think. >> it's a novel question, when is it that a company which doesn't go to church, nonetheless that's religious rights. when is it that the owners embody the company so much that if you make the company do something against their owners' religious principles and violating it or their rights. really it's amazing that no court has ever finally decided that. that's what the supreme court is going to resolve here. >> it is amazing. on the other side, i think some people watch all day and you hear various amounts of other opinions but the bottom line, the logical thing, where does that then stop? if they say a woman's place is in the home and a person sub describes to that particular faith, is that discrimination against gays and lesbians and of

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the president will then travel to philadelphia for fundraising event. and the woman picked to be the next chair of the federal reserve faced a senate confirmation hearing today. janet yellen said the u.s. economy is improving and is significantly stronger than when the recession started. but despite the gain, she said the economy is not ready to stand on its own. >> i believe that supporting the recovery today is the surest path to returning to a more normal approach to monetary policy. i strongly believe that monetary policy is most effective when the public understands what the fed is trying to do and how it plans to do it. >> and let's just take a quick look at the dow right now. it's up 52 points. the s&p slightly up as well as the nasdaq. joining me now, nbc news senior political editor mark murray. we'd love to talk about the economy. obviously, janet yellen, when she's confirmed, her words will move the marks. the president wants to talk about the economy as well today in cleveland. we know the realities here. >> right. i mean, today's actually b

to me he's philadelphia, south jersey. wise guy attitude. we like people with attitude. generally they show themselves to be real about people like pawlenty and people who don't see it as fully animated. you know what i mean? >> yeah, yeah. totally. i want to say chris christie is taking steps to reduce his weight and get healthier. >> a lot of people are. by the way, who is too skinny and who is too fat? if he can handle himself in terms of psychology obviously, he's better off losing weight. you don't live that long if you stay that fat. that's just a fact. >> obama a care website. it came -- >> can i say something? i've been dying to say this. >> yes. >> all this stuff about biden and how they were going to dump him, i don't believe it. it would have made the president look so desperate. to drop his friend because he was worried about reelection. no real reason to do it otherwise. clinton he's been at war with. making himself a moment from the nomination on. it doesn't make any sense. >> is does this make sense? he said, look, the fact is that you -- it's like playing

this american fox hound won the national dog show in philadelphia. now we send you back to "caught on camera." >>> welcome back to "caught on camera." i'm contessa brewer. so far we've seen brawls, escapes and even earthquakes shaking up the courtroom. but this next struggle happens not inside, but outside the courtroom. a man approaches an attorney as he's leaving and asks a simple question, then he opens fire. in one of the most unbelievable scenes ever caught on camera, a man is shot at point-blank range and ducks behind a slender tree as bullets fly. it's halloween, october 31st, 2003. reporters are outside the van nuys courthouse to cover a hearing in the murder trial of actor robert blake. but the real drama caught on camera that day is this. >> i just went down on all fours to try to scramble away from him. i knew something bad had happened, i didn't know exactly what it was. >> 53-year-old los angeles attorney gerald curry is leaving the courthouse after attending a hearing about a medical trust fund case. a heavyset man wearing glasses confr

she key notes the conference for women in philadelphia. it ends a week where we learned every woman in the senate, democratic side is privately signed a letter urging her to run. hollywood in the form of the once close supporter who had split with them to support obama in 2008 is wacking enthusiastic. otherconfidants claim she is running. >> i'm behind hillary if she runs. that's up to her. if she runs, i'm in. >> clinton seems to have a higher profile than the sitting vice president as candidates carve out the places in the evolving 2016 field. we are still getting port mort em from the last campaign with the new book, double down reveals in late 2011 the president's team led by then chief of staff bill daley had polling and focus groups paid for to measure how voters might react to replacement on the ticket from vice president biden to hillary clinton. this is what daley told the "new york times." i was vocal about looking into a burch of things and this was one of them. you have to remember at that point the president was in awful shape

these storms will race through the night through pennsylvania, all the way to philadelphia and new york city. by the middle of the night. >> all right, thanks, bill. >>> we'll continue to monitor the storms and bring you the latest. back to our regular programming. >> ooh, yeah, baby, ooh, yeah. >> they are out of control. teens attacking teachers. fighting, hazing and beating each other to a pulp. >> yeah, man! >> they videotape -- >> they knew there was going to be this fight and they came with a video camera. >> then upload the footage to get their 15 megabytes of fame. >> they somehow think that by posting it on the internet, it's taken the criminal aspects out of it. >> but sometimes big brother is watching, and the teenagers get caught. >> the videotape is a critical piece of evidence that is uncontradicted. >>> "caught on camera: teens gone wild." teenagers. what can we say about them? they're young, impressionable, on the road toward independence. they've traded their toys for technology and sometimes find fun in pranking and punking each other. but some of these capers turn vio

. >> you also arrived in philadelphia to play with the sixers and you developed quite a social life there. bill cosby was around a lot, arthur ashe and patti labelle. >> teddy pendergrass. >> what was that group like? >> well, the group was like the people of the moment and in the '70s, you know, music was big and obviously entertainment in general was big so if you had a chance to socialize with the people of that ilk in light of the things that were happening in the country with the tvietna war and the civil rights unrest, we had a lot of discussions and we had a lot of open and candid discussions and we influenced one another. i would always bring my viewpoint and certainly i would be willing to listen to the others. >> your life has been a roller coaster. you've had these tremendous highs, obviously, incredible success on the court and like everyone else, difficulties off the court. you lost a very close friend of yours who was a fellow basket player and you lost one of your children and as a result your marriage broke up. what was the highest of the highs and the lowest of the lows.