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A record amount of snow must be removed. Digging out from a deadly storm. One of the biggest snowstorms the eastern United States has ever seen. Washington, d. C. Is still reeling. The federal government is still closed down. More than two feet of snow blanketed new york city. There are still thousands of cars buried under snow. Now the shoveling begins in many cities on the east coast. Now along the jersey shore dealing with flooding from the powerful storm. Chris christie said new jersey did pretty well. He is out of his mind. So this is crunch time. I just hope you get out there and caucus and do your thing. A week before the campaigns first votes donald trump regained his lead in iowa. On the democratic side the race is neck and neck. We are going to win in iowa. Denver wins it and heading to super bowl 506. The panthers are going to the super bowl. I dont know who we are playing yet, but we will be ready to go. Youre playing denver and Peyton Manning. Oh, wow intense manhunt for t
Its the broncos and the panthers. Super bowl 50 in northern california. And the snowstorm may be gone, but we are still feeling the impact. This is live video right now. You see the long lines at Cleveland Hopkins airport where many flights headed east are canceled this morning. In fact, 25 cancellations, four delays and a lot of people may be asking how do you have 25 cancellations already this morning . Those cancellations go until 6 00 p. M. This anticipating. Of work to do. Right. Check your flights out of cleveland, new york, d. C. , baltimore, either of them, they may be canceled, they may be delayed, some may be getting out right now. Its up in the air if youre going to get out. Good morning, its monday, january 25th, thanks for joining us. Im brian duffy fee. Im lets talk about our forecast. Beautiful day it seems like in store, right and its perfect because its meteorologist sam shes turning 21 today is there im so excited. Isnt it crazy. Only a few years until i can rent a ca
In that spirit i am so thrilled to day to introduce you to our author Gerard Magliocca. He has written definitive biography of the James Madison of the 14th amendment. You will come to appreciate how important john bingham who drafted that central amendment to protect Civil Liberties and the bill of rights, and this man had no definitive biography written before a and Gerard Magliocca does saving job. The e. U. Also will be riveted in this discussion will eliminate the issues that americans discuss today to understand the origins of our liberties survival briefly introduce our author then begin a conversation. Professor Gerard Magliocca at indiana university. No relation but if it is an honorable name. And from the school of law you ever written three books in over 20 articles and on concurring opinions and before a joining India University he spent two years as a lawyer and one year on the court of appeals and we share a teacher at Yale Law School that had something to do with your re
Working wait out there in an end berkeley that made sense of it and then when dawn to right to the american renaissance. It took someone with his own literary imagination and training to see entire worlds that they could barely touch but i raised this old but not entirely flattering story to make two observations where it came from. First the useful scholarly interests were part of an entire generation of critics we wanted to write the undiscovered history of slaves and farmers and everyone else of a relatively short trip we came from a variety of angles. To be a marxist humanism particularly influential in my circles although finding comic inspiration not just through the american renaissance but also American History of the beef the idea of the fundamental liberal consensus but aviation driven by the imperative of middleclass striving. We were looking for ourselves. Or the history not so much useful for lessons of the future but to us from the past of which we felt alienated then to