Im jamie colby, and today im driving along the mighty susquehanna river that winds its way through central pennsylvania. Im on my way to berwick, population 11,000, a tough old manufacturing town that built stuart tanks during world war ii. Today its best known for its wise potato chip factory and also its Nuclear Power plant. This strange inheritance is about another, smaller business, one that goes to the heart and soul of cities like berwick all across america. Im angela diaugustine, and, in july of 2013, when my father passed away, he left us an unusual inheritance that none of us knew what to do with at the time. This weathered Movie Theater looks like the sort of place you might pass and think, how does a business like this even make it in todays world . Angela not only inherited the theater, but like most berwick residents, she spent a bit of time here, especially as a teenager. I remember once, when i came to the movies here, it was hush. Hush, sweet charlotte with bette davis.
Population roughly 50,000. Right here in enid, they have the Third Largest Storage Capacity for grain on the planet. But wedged in between enids silos lies the tale of a cantankerous legend who left his grandchildren with a very strange inheritance. My name is stuart piontek, and in 2003, my brothers and sisters and i inherited something pretty unusual from my grandfather. His name was oliver jordan, and he died at 95. He was a child of the dust bowl. Grandpa would hold on to just about everything that passed through his life, whether it was a tin can, an automobile, a piece of copper wire. And oliver jordan kept it all here. For 60 years. This salvage lot was his home, his sanctuary, his fort knox. Hi, stuart welcome to paradise. I found it the rusted old cars in this shed some of them relics of the roaring 20s are a few of the more than 200 that jordan accumulated over his lifetime. Born in 1908, jordan was raised on a wheat farm. But his real interest was that fabulous new invention
If congress cant agree on a funding bill the government will partially shut down beginning at midnight tonight. The next move belongs to the senate which convene this afternoon. The Senate Leaders say they now will reject the proposal from the republicanled house. Susan mcginnis is in washington with the latest. Good morning, susan. Good morning, annemarie. So many people im talking to have already accepted that a Government Shutdown is coming tomorrow. The latest proposal is guaranteed to be rejected by the senate. The only hint of a negotiation here has been that the earlier house proposal killed obamacare, and this latest one just delays obamacare, but the Senate Remains adamant, and right now neither side is blinking and theres less than 20 hours to go. A partial Government Shutdown begins at midnight unless congress can reach a deal. This afternoon the senate will likely vote down a house plan to fund the government because it calls for a oneyear delay of the president S Health Ca
It was the deadliest day for Fire Fighters since 9 11, 19 members of the Granite Mountain hotshots were killed fighting a wildfire in and around yarnell arizona in june. Today, the state released the results of its investigation, carter evans reports from arizona on the great deal of confusion and lack of communication that helped make it such a deadly day. Reporter the investigation revealed Radio Communication problems between commanders and firefighters in the field contributed to the chain of events that led to the deaths of 19 Granite Mountain hotshots, at one point they lost radio contact for 30 minutes. We do know there was, where they were not communicating, we. While out of communication, the hotshots tried to hike through dry brush to a safe zone, but they had no guidance from fire commanders. They did not know where they were. There is no reason with the technology we have today that they could not have had tracking units on those radios, that they could not have known where
Rick Langlitz worked tirelessly Thursday, to finalize the details of his father’s estate.
“I’ve lived here for 27 years. I just didn’t know the volume,” he said.
It’s work he’s been doing since February with his two younger brothers, older sister, her husband, nephews, cousins and grandchildren.
“There’s 117 cars here that are in various stages of disrepair, and there’s no way that a single person could restore them in their lifetime,” Rick Langlitz's sister Michelle Johnson said.