cook political report and the piece that we re talking about in this segment is titled volatility is the new normal. this feels like it s something we all knew about reading your article it puts it into focus, it s been a volatile couple of decades, not just years. yeah, we tend to think i m of a certain age that i ve been in washington now, oh, it hurts a little to say how old i am, but i ve been in washington almost 30 years. so when i came it washington, you know, politics had been it s always been volatile, but there s been a certain level of stability there. democrats had control, the house of the representatives for 40 years, since 1950 s, democrats had uninterrupted control of the house. for much of that time, democrats had uninterrupted control of the senate and republicans would win the white house with a brief, you know, interspersal there by democrats, so while you would see members come and go, the stability is something that we got used to and after 1994 and
Know to protect yourself. Water rescue. Look at this. A capsized jet skier struggling in the choppy seas. Hello, 911. Hello, i just lost my jet ski. Im in the middle of the water. Im like barely holding on right now. Calling for help on a stashed away cell phone. The dramatic rescue just in the nick of time. . Do you believe in magic . And harry potter returns. The boy wizard casting a new spell. His eighth story under tight wraps ready to be revealed just hours from now. The massive muggle mania taking the world by storm. Good morning, everyone. We want to say thank you for joining us. Great to have ryan smith with us, as well. We do want to start with breaking news. Were learning this morning reeling from the bombing of the Brussels Airport attack back in march for which isis claimed credit. Two brothers under arrest accused of planning new attacks in a country and continent on high alert. For the latest on what is a developing story this morning, lets go to abcs Jennifer Eccleston w
With us john venza, whos the Vice President of adolescent services at outreach. John, let me start with you. Tell us the story about your son. Well, john was in a very bad car accident a few years before he passed away, and he was given prescription opiates a copious amount of prescription opiates and he was given them for 10 months. In the accident, he broke his leg, shattered his ankle, had, i think, seven different surgeries, and he became getting prescriptions and just filling them and filling them. He came to us. He went to rehab. He would ah, sorry. He got out of rehab. He was doing real well. John was almost a 4. 0 student in college, got a big job with a Big Accounting Firm right out of college, was doing very well, and he got addicted to the opiates, came to us, wanted to go to rehab. We sent him to rehab down in florida. He was sober 59 days. He passed away. Oh. This story you hear more and more and more. There was just a father recently who talked about his son. We had the s
Little damp. A little humid and rainy. Very humid. You have no idea what this took. Really . Do they call it the flatiron . Yeah. Whatever that is. Amy freeze was in there with me. Blame the humidity. Good morning, amy freeze. It does take a village. Thats right. Good morning to the both of you. Rained a little more than we would have liked to have seen yesterday. Meanwhile, parts of the area had beautiful sunshine further outsid so 74 degrees right now. We know all clouds are in play for today and the threat of more showers, even heavier drenching downpours at times. 74 central park. 64 monticello those are some of the cooler spots. Mid 70s on the jersey shore. 72 montauk. Here is the radar. We have those showers from last night still north and west. Ulster, duchess county, jersey. All of that continuing through the morning hours, lining up pretty much with what we have on the futurecast. Through the afternoon expected more scattered showers across the area. In fact, some of those sho
Reporter greg obrien, who was diagnosed with youngeronset alzheimers at age 59 and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and psychology today. Greg, good to have you with us. Thank you, ken. Its an honor to be here. Well, tell us about the title of the book. What inspired the title . Well, the title of the book, on pluto, when i was a young Investigative Reporter, i would take sources off record. I covered the mafia and organized crime, and i would tell my sources, im gonna take you out to pluto, where no one can hear what is said. And i was fascinated with the planet pluto. And then, as i got older, you know, men and women, you go and you talk about the unmentionables of life, and my buddies would say, are you taking us out to pluto . And i said, yes. Were off the record. And in this disease, in alzheimers, theres this urge to just drift out, which i have to fight against all the time, and i had to invent a place that i could go to, and i called it pluto. And my maternal gra