Institute for sponsoring our panel discussion. Our speakers today are david frisk, resident fellow at the Alexander Hamilton institute, adam carrington, assistant professor of politics at hillsdale college, and michael uhlmann, a senior fellow at the claremont institute. We will have 20 minutes for each speaker to deliver his remarks. Then we will open up to questions and general discussion. And one note, if you do have a question, please bring it to the microphone in the center so you can be on camera. I think we are being recorded by cspan this morning. And without any further ado, david first. David thanks to all of you for coming out this early morning. I will be defending the Electoral College. And equally important, when we are talking about a major change, discussing the dangers of any really a common to almost any plans for alternatives. There always has to be an alternative. It seems to me that there are certain advantages to the Electoral College, which have been stated by it
Posted northern of the pennsylvania turnpike and this is where we expect the highest the poconos could get 4 to 6 inches of snow. But the timing impacts. Philadelphia northwest snowing until 8 00 in the morning and roads are snowy and slippery. South jersey and delaware starts as rain and changes over to snow at the end and the roads are wet and could be freezing rain ill talk total and what is behind the system during the accuweather forecast. We seem to be getting a lot of rush hour snowfall. Lets switch live to walter perez. Reporter well jim, all is quiet at this hour in west reading a coating or so fell in this region earlier this morning but most of it has since melted away but its not over yet. Round one came through the Lehigh Valley this morning leaving an inch of snow in spots. There was some on the roadways in the Lehigh Valley and up north in the poconos got a little worse. So it did create for slick conditions. But we did have crews out there and crews on shifts throughout
Reporter the new york closed. Its very, very difficult to get through that area. This summer friday has been aggravated by a dreadful accident 15 miles north. This morning, this is suffern new york this morning. A box truck carrying mattresses jumped the Center Divider and hit a tractor of exit 15b. The two occupants of the northbound box truck are dead. The driver of the southbound tractortrailer is hospitalized. Serious but stable condition. And traffic as a result all afternoon has been really slammed on the thruway, i87, route 17, route 202, the local roads in Rockland County and its just been really a mess. Its just starting to loosen up a little bit but its still very difficult. The monitors say its difficult in the immediate area. Police are questioning two other vehicles involved in the crash. Another truck headed northbound and a private vehicle. They are trying to find out what happened before the box truck jumped the median. But two people were killed. The tractortrailer dri
Still unknown. Were at the very early stages of this investigation, are working who establish his motive for coming here, if he had an intended target beyond the Security Office what the motive was behind the crime. Detectives say Kevin Downing a former economist was fired from the federal bureau after labor statistics four years ago, cbs 2 learned troubling lawsuits and other documents show he thought he was fired for retaliation because he blew the whistle on alleged corruption and public waste. Ever express concerns or having problems . Never, really honestly. Real estate listings show downing bought the home in 1987 put it on the market several times over the years a home thats now the focus of a federal investigation. Downings neighbors say he got hit by a car about a year ago was out of work for at least six months. Some question if financial problems led to this, but investigators dont have answers. Live in fort lee new jersey, cbs 2 news. All right thanks, were learning more th
Outside couples home in the frankford section of philadelphia, because it was the next door neighbor that admitted to shooting them. He told police that the mother of two, father of four have tried to scale his fence when he shot them in the back of the head. Two parties have been arguing earlier that night. Now he thinks he got away with something so what happens if someone throws the ball up alley and child goes up there and young man, and he shoots them now, i was afraid again. Reporter some who live along james street are concerned and confused is too why next door neighbor remains free. In one more frustrated then children the couple left behind. It is not selfdefense. It is just strictly murder. Reporter after a vigil on saturday night august democracys two sons channeled tonight to a mission. They started a petition demanding answers in this investigation and set out to 4 30 this morning garnering more than 5,000 signatures. With the lawyer, today they delivered the petition, to