>> guest: i wrote about ed lansdale of my book invisible ed lansdale in a city with my editor talk about my next book and you said what you do a whole book on ed lansdale. initially i was skeptical because i've never written about the guy but his intuition paid off. i discovered new information about him. i tracked down the granddaughter of the second life pat kelly and went to see her in northern virginia. she said would you be interested in these letters i have in my basement i said why would i. these were long lost love letters between absolute -- ed lansdale and pat kelly which provided perspective on his innermost life in the great romance of his life that other people do know about so as part of the information and uncovered. although ed landsdale had been written a lot about i had access to resources that others did not have. >> host: we have some callers on the line. as to what they have to say to you. gordon in laramie, wyoming you are on with max boot "the road not taken" his most recent book. >> caller: great. i may just to read invisible armies now, that's for sure. i am wond

lansdale to his credit and ultimately the united states paid a high cost for the fact that lansdale was not listened to. >> host: let's hear from carl in alamo, california. >> caller: am i talking over you? >> host: charles, please go ahead. turn down your tv. >> caller: i was very impressed on the documentary by ken burn on the vietnam war. it said to me there was strong lying by the lyndon administration to the american public and earlier he was trying to stop the stupid war. then of course the draft consisted alongside the volunteer army. we could go on with our wars resources all around it seems. >> host: charles, thank you very much for calling in. max boot in a comment? >> guest: i didn't quite understand what his question was. >> host: i think he was just talking about the war and talking about the ken burns series that he put on and whether or not it was a propaganda campaign is what i got out of it. >> guest: i propaganda campaign by north vietnam against the u.s.? >> host: take it whatever way you want to take it. .. that the war was not being successfu, and the tet offensive

we had a crash on the northbound side of the northeast extension approaching lansdale but they just got that cleared out of the way. live look at our were buddy ben, the ben franklin bridge and it's wet this morning. speed restrictions in place on many of the area bridges but traffic is moving fine. not so good though coming off the tacony-palmyra bridge along 73 at 130. we've got downed wires all southbound lanes blocked, northbound just a little bit of traffic is getting by and in brooklawn it's more tidal flooding this morning blocking a lane each way along 130 near 47. that caused delays yesterday. we expect them again on this wednesday, tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. >>> now let's go over to "action news" reporter jeanette reyes who is live in montgomeryville montgomery county. jeanette what does it look like there? >> all parked cars must be moved off snow emergency routes. all municipal offices in philadelphia and courts are closed today and a state of emergency has also been declared in other parts of pennsylvania and in the state of new jersey. >> well, traveling on one of thos

still wet can be slippery and we saw a crash earlier on the northeast extension portion of 476 near lansdale. it's now gone. northeast philadelphia here, this is woodhaven road over top the roosevelt boulevard, route one, and again, just wet conditions. on the grassy surfaces, you're seeing a little bit of accumulation but the road, itself, is just wet. this one's really wet. by penn's landing this is columbus boulevard delaware avenue northbound lanes tidal flooding again this morning. just like yesterday during both of our commutes. stay over on 95. you don't want to try and drive through that big puddle on columbus boulevard northbound. this is 95 nearby and it looks okay. just a little bit wet here but not as wet as columbus boulevard so go ahead and use it. 25 miles per hour on all bridges. we're getting the warning sign there from penndot as you travel into new jersey and if you're coming off the tacony-palmyra bridge, i wouldn't use 73. it's blocked here because of downed wires. tam. >> okay, thank you, matt. >>> let's get you out and get a look at what's going on around the region. l

accident on northeast i end show past lansdale, right lane compromised there. and we also cents have some construction creig extension northbound before lansdale, that right lane compromised, in reports of a very large pothole. ninety-five south at girard, is. you can bet that your friends here will be putting on their brakes, give yourselve time, jik to you. >> mixing fun with fitness, new viral, and sure to have you working up a sweat. take a look. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> dance became popular in 2007. around, have the cupid shuffle any time fitness in berlin new jersey with the mind behind the viral fitness. >> i've been in a plank45 minut. can you believe that? >> i don't believe ive it. this is my man dan over here. he is the man responsible for the cupid shuffle plank challenge that has seen millions of views on social media world-wide. we got some friends out here, at any fitness this morning. dan, how does one come up with the cupid shuffle plank challenge? >> pat as you know right now this is getting pretty boring, pretty tedious, k

hear i from some of the young people who are calling them, including grace, who is on the line from lansdale, pennsylvania. grace, thank you for joining us today. caller: good morning. thank you for having me. host: what do you think about the protests taking place today, grace? caller: i think they are incredibly important and unimportant show of our power as young people. i think it is incredibly i feel that i am in danger every day when i go to school. i'm in a school of 2500, and someone opened fire in the hallways, they would kill so many people and so little time with weapons that are available to them. host: what would you like to see happen? would you like to see large capacity guns banned? what specifically do you want this march to accomplish? caller: i think, first and foremost, is awareness on what is happening in our schools and on our streets. i personally do not believe that anything that you need to have an ar-15. furthermore, i would like to see better background checks that include both a history of domestic abuse, a history of animal abuse, or anyone to illness that could

. >> we will kick things off with the crash with injuries in lansdale lots of equipment on the scene so avoid that area moving on to philadelphia and olde city chestnut street remains closed between third street and second street due to a fire that occurred there three weeks ago. so keep your heads up for detours. here's a live look, looking good in both directions as well as all of the delaware river bridges, and for mass transit, routes and buses are running on detours and delays, giving you all of the info at septa.org. live from the traffic center i'm cheryl golden, now jan, back to you. >>> there is a dangerous trend being scene among some young women with diabetes, they deliberately restrict insulin in order to lose weight. health reporter stephanie stahl has more in this einstein health care science center report. >> reporter: heat other stucky has been living with type one diabetes since she was 12, 48 year-old never thought that diagnosis was going to spiral into a serious eating disorder >> i had a natural force within me that could just melt away calories. >> reporter: it

we have a coating of snow from philadelphia to lansdale. 2 to 4 inches doylestown to allentown and out toward reading there's a chance for slushy roads. mainly only the grass. poconos 4 to 8 inches there will be more snow and travel issues there. saturday, wind gusts 55 miles per hour, 65 down the shore, that will give you issues with debris on the roadways and trees coming down. coastal flooding saturday with minor to moderate flooding depending on the storm track how bad that is. the is true is -- the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast, rain arrives today accuweather alert, strong winds pushing debris on roads and causing power outages and rain changing over to wet snow, the farther north you go, the bigger issue it will be. 44 is the uncomfortable high. saturday, brisk and chilly, clouds and sun, it will be windy hold on to your hats if you're heading to the union game at night. sunny and breezy on sunday, 47 degrees. we're in the upper 40s on tuesday, afternoon rain tuesday and wet snow mixing in on tuesday morning. >>> one of the president's closest confidantes is leaving th

that's doylestown, lansdale, pottstown, allentown, mount pocono. that's a significant amount of snow. right now this looks on track to be the case. the own thing that we're watching behind the scenes is to see if we might need to shift this area of purple a little bit farther to the south because we're watching this area of low pressure drift just a little bit eastward. for now it looks pretty good. i just want to give you an idea what we're watching behind the scenes as we watch the snowfall intensify a little bit. here's your exclusive accuweather 7-day. heavy wet snow 35 degrees for your high. worst time period about 9:00 to 4:00. tomorrow blustery, some sunshine returning, 40 degrees for your high. maybe a couple of snow showers north of the city on friday with a weak disturbance. not a big deal. 43. saturday still chilly, only 43. daylight saving time begins saturday night into sunday. sunday it's partly sunny and 46. still watching the potential for a storm sunday into monday but at this point it looks like it stays south of us so it looks li

some construction northeast extension, in this one cleared, still focusing on this one, this is near lansdale, that right lane is still compromised. jim, rahel, over to you. >> thank you shall meisha. two nor'easters in less than a westbound, just can't take it any more. >> so many feel in our area are still in the dark following last friday storm. right now peco says about 24,000 homes and businesses are still without power. ppl has about 1800 outages, and the outages are lower, for atlantic city electric, while the power and pse&g. so, now, the race against the clock to restore power before the next nor'easter. >> "eyewitness news" reporter trang do, liver in hatboro, where it has been tough couple every days for people still in the dark there. good morning, trang. >> most of the people who remain without power as well as delaware county, a look why there are still this has been taken care of but still, there are still several homes here, in hatboro, without power, bought of -- because of this, peco says working as fast as they can to get the power restored, they actually gave us a look at

lansdale, 31. 32 in hatboro. again, all the areas that are close to freezing have a good chance to see a lot of the snow icing over. windchills today, already started. our wind speeds staying strong. windchills feel like 27 degrees in philadelphia. feels like 25 when you head out in wilmington. only feeling like 27 in allentown. satellite radar shot shows lots of clouds, a few snow flurries mainly to the west of us. we have the system that's now out of our area, but still bringing snow to parts of boston. today, staying nice and dry. a chance of snow flurries pushing into friday. these will be isolated. this model is showing just a few outside of reading heading into tomorrow morning. we'll keep a close eye on that for you. a closer look at your neighborhood planner shows temperatures today staying close to 40. the feels-like temperature is going to make it feel like we're in the low 30s. the p.a. suburbs, actual temperatures, 38 by 2:00 a.m. lehigh value, around 38 by 2:00. for delaware, 42. new jersey in the lo

northeast extension northbound still has construction between mid-county and lansdale taking out a lane and down in delaware, our southbound construction on 95 has cleared but now we're getting word of a northbound accident on the ramp to airport road and there's some slowing there as you come north of christiana. >> fellow passengers restrain an unruly woman. travelers say she tried to open an aircraft door. the plane took off from san francisco and was headed to boise idaho yesterday. police were waiting at the gate. the plane landed safely. >> a former aide to president trump is now backing away from his vow made across a number of broadcasts yesterday that he was going to defy a grand jury subpoena to the russia investigation. sam nunn berg is supposed top hand over thousands of e-mails and other documents to special counsel robert mueller. nunberg instead made the rounds on television talk shows yesterday declaring he was not going to cooperate. he also made the cryptic insinuation the president "may well have done something wrong during the campaign" though he said he didn't know

closer to lansdale, 31 degrees. the breakdown as we go into the rest of today, mainly warming to the 30s and 40s. but our feels-like temperatures are going to stay mainly in the low to mid 30s. our feels-like temperatures when you head out of the house and head out the door, 25 degrees in philadelphia. feels like 24 in wilmington. feeling like 24 in pottstown. 29 in allentown. our satellite and radar shot showing us dry conditions finally. we are done with the snow. all the snow is mainly near maine and parts of boston. what we're seeing as we look at the futurecast going into tomorrow, by 3:00, we could see a few little snow flurries. this is going to be short-lived. by 5:30, everything clears up. there's a chance for a few little, quick, snow flurries tomorrow afternoon and evening. the next thing is a potential for another system that could move through. the european model showing us by 7:00 on monday, snow for the suburbs to the north and west. a wintry mix for most of south jersey. that's one model. we'll show

. >> host: max boot, the road not taken, edward lansdale and the american tragedy in vietnam, is the most recent book by this author, member of the council on foreign relations and military hayden. [applause] >> and now please welcome multi-award-winning singer, songwriter and philanthropist, ms. dolly parton. [cheers and applause] >> hello! thank you so much! hi there! wow. [applause] [laughter] >> oh, my. >> well, it's nice to be here just in this wonderful place, d.c., and certainly here in the library of congress. what a beautiful building you have here. >> it's called the most beautiful building in washington, d.c. >> i think they're probably right. this is beautiful. and it's a beautiful day for us, and i'm just so happy and excited to be here. i was watching that little film back there on the little phone they had, and i was watching all that, seeing how all these things have happened through the years, and i'm just so proud and so honored to be here today with you. >> well, we're honored that you're here, because as you know -- >> you want to sit? >> would you like to sit? i'

10 i-95 corridor, the area in pink and the area in purple bull's-eye 10 to 16-inches from doylestown lansdale pottstown allentown, mount pocono. the one thing that we're kind of watching behind the scenes as the storm develops, no the changing it but watching is do we get a sharp cutoff right here? do you get a lot less as you go just west of allentown and reading? is this jackpot area or the area with the heavier snow shifting a little bit more to the east as this low tracks? that's something that we're going to keep an eye on and we'll let you know if we make any changes with that. here's your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. it's a heavy wet snow. the winds are going to pick up late this morning as is the snow. 35 for your high. tomorrow it's blustery, some sunshine, 40 degrees. friday we could sneak in a morning snow shower especially north of the city, 43. still chilly on saturday. normally we would be about 50. it's 43 for your high. and then daylight saving time begins saturday night into sunday. sunday's partly sunny and 46. still watching the coast. at this point most models sug

much sleet we get mixing in we get a lot of sleet it's 6 we don't get much it's 10 and areas north of lansdale and princeton lehigh probably a foot of snow and 10:00 in the morning out of the northeast a nor'easter 45 miles per hour and by 5:00 they shift out of the northwest and that is when we could be seeing some power outages so the exclusive accuweather seven-day forecast it is a nasty day windy with heavy snow, 37 degrees, thursday 42 degrees we will get some melting going on friday morning a chance of snow showers especially north and does not look to be a big deal temperatures in the 40s and saturday pretty nice day and bump it up to 45 degrees and we begin daylight savings time early sunday morning and increasing clouds ahead of a system to the south and if it moves far enough north we are looking at snow on monday especially the first half of the day 44 and tuesday we dry out temperatures in the 40s a lot to track on storm tracker and they will be doing that on action news tomorrow beginning at 4:00. >> all right thank you a new study finds that opioids are no better the than common

elsewhere on 476 northbound side of the northeast extension near lansdale, still have some construction there taking out the right lane and in whitpain township morris road is still blocked because of a drowned tree. skippack pike to the south can get you around that. at least orvilla road is reopened in towamencin. they finished cleaning up the and downed wires there. hilltown township there's still downed wires blocking diamond street. keystone drive or green street would be alternates around those. overnight construction at the triple b, burlington bristol bridge is cleared out of the way so you're good to go crossing the delaware river there between bucks and burlington counties, matt. >> thank you, matt. dramatic video shows the moment a five-year-old girl dangles from a chair lift at a california ski resort before falling onto a safety tarp below. the girl's parents say she slipped from the chair lift on saturday morning when it started moving. the girl's ski instructor at bear mountain was able to grab her hoodie. the instructor held onto the little girl who became unconscious fr

so, this is upper bucks, montgomery, you're talking doylestown lansdale pottstown reading quakertown, allentown, mount pocono, 10 to 16-inches of snowfall in that area. here's your exclusive accuweather 7-day forecast. so far the nor'easter on track. kind of behaving as we expected it would. 35 for your high. heavy wet snow. most especially late morning, early afternoon. the worst time period. blustery with some sunshine tomorrow, 40, maybe a few flurries in the lehigh valley. a couple morning snow showers especially north of the city. not a big deal but could be a little slick friday morning in a few spots, 43. saturday still chilly, 43, despite sunshine. sunday partly sunny, 46. daylight saving time begins saturday night into sunday. sunday we're watching the coast. monday mostly cloudy, 44. we're watching this storm system. right now it looks like maybe it stays south of our region but we have to watch that closely to see if we get a little snow. tuesday windy and chilly and 44. so, march not feeling like march. the4(p&c& seven-day it's still roaring with chilly temperatures. >> al

. >>> here's good news from september, services resumed on some regional rail lines, including the lansdale/ doyletown, paoli and warminster line. however, riders can expect delays, and the other lines are still, are still a concern, big concerns along the new jersey shore. several counties remain under a coastal flood warning. meanwhile, surfers took advantage of the high waves in ocean city. the water was equally wild down at ventnor heights. it comes with a price, visible signs of beach erosion, across that area. >>> anytime a storm hits you can keep track with the very latest where ever you are by using our free six abc app that gives you updates posted by our team of accu weather meteorologists, access to live double scan radar and traffic cameras to check on road conditions before they leave home. >>> investigators have not yet released the name of the 57 year-old man who was killed last night, when a tree, crashed on to a car in montgomery county. police tell "action news" it happened at 7:00 o'clock on the south gulf road area between arden and upper gulf roads in upper merion towns

to start a major snowstorm here, in march an accident south on the northeast extension just south of lansdale, just caus ing a delay from quakertown on down. an accident involving a pedestrian in cherry hill, at old, cuthbert boulevard right at orchid road and we have wicked sun glare out there again in cherry hill, long route 70. down tree this is a problem the ground is so moist, wet that any of those big old oak trees that are not sturdy enough they have gotten toppled over from the wind crescent valley drive and em len street shut down so traffic diverted on to germantown avenue and then that is a clean up operation for some firewood later on. for gang from chester county a live look at the bypass eastbound with sun glare heading toward west chester mike and alex, back over to you. >>> 7:16. frances mcdormand who won actress best oscar. >> love her. but for a brief period it looked like somebody else might be heading off with the trophy because somebody stole it. >> it wasn't because of talent >> no. >> karen? >> that is exactly what happened you see suspect right now and apparently he is

we have a train in lansdale doylestown line 17 minutes late. 42 it's wet, move be okay, northbound coming up from deptford or turnersville not a big problem. 55 you have about 18 miles per hour jamming up as you head toward 42. live update on the air area of red. 35 miles per hour. no issues so far on 295. so that's good news, for people driving around. here's the highlights from the forecast. the winds will increase, we expect more problems with this. we'll get the change. it's rain except for the poconos. we'll get the changeover to snow. it ends tonight. david will be back with the snowfall map coming up in just a few minutes matt andennette. >> would would -- wowing awar. >> police department tks about the next break through in school safety something that students carry with them everyday. we'll be right back. at ikea, we believe that everything you need should be within reach. that anything that matches your taste can match your budget. that green living doesn't have to cost much green. we believe that you should always have room for the little things. and that your dream kitchen sh

we've had problems on the roads, but mass transit is looking good, our first delay lansdale doylestown line 17 minute late. chicago is 39 are rain, pope hopefully it stays rain and not snow. today is a cool one to start out and cloudy early with temperatures in the low to mid 40s, we get a high of 58. in the evening commute, mid to upper 40s, anytime after 4:00 p.m., rain arrives, matt and tam. >> thank you, david. >>> 6:26 a.m., we're updating breaking news out of new jersey. a threat has led two school districts to cancel classes. >> president trump squares off with pat toomey while distancing himself from the nra. i no wondering, "what if?" uncertainties of hep c. i let go of all those feelings. because i am cured with harvoni. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who've have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if you'

> good morning, jan kicking things off at 42 freeway, and, and, and, 295, and montgomery county, in lansdale a crash with injuries, at east main street at north chestnut street so please use caution in that area. in philadelphia olde city chestnut street remains closed between third street and second street due to a, took place, and, and, please, and, edge of time, in mass transit, and, they are back on schedule before we head out get updated information, at septa.org. live from the cbs-3 traffic center i'm cheryl golden, now jan, back to you. >>> turning to sports now, villanova finds out if it is top cat, and the flyers, struck by lightening. "eyewitness news", "eyewitness sports" reporter, leslie van arsdal has the report. >> flyers take on panthers this afternoon they have lost two in a row after yesterday's wild game with tampa. flyers goalie peter mrazek, has task of slowing down lightening owe negligent. they win face off ivan provorov his shot finds back of the net for his, 12th goal of the season. flyers up five-four. tampa with the two on one and stephen stamkos with the one timer

down some more of the tree branches and trees, especially like along the paoli thorndale line or the lansdale line. norristown high-speed line, trains running every 20 minute if you really must go, here is the way to go. the market frankford and the subway, running trains every 20 minutes, around the clock, the two big work horses cents here, for the septa system. how much are we going to get? when is it going to end? sue has the answer in 15 seconds. >> the warning new castle county delaware, and camden, burlington, mercer county also included so the possible therefore double digit snowfall accumulations where the coastal storm is forming now, seeing as we speak the transfer of the energy from this ohio storm, to the one along the coast. so what we have with us now, just the beginning, the storm has yet to move up the coast, and that's why we're saying the worse of it will be a little later on, but seeing snowfall and rain in a lot of places cents, plus, few dry slots. so it is kind of easing up, up there in allentown, for now, seeing some heavier snow around runnemede, west depford , and al

point in both directions on the regional rail lines, including west t trenton, chestnut hilly, west, lansdale doyletown paoli, thorndale and cynwyd, both lots of affected ... services along northeast corridor. we understand at least two trains are operating between new york and philadelphia right now but that is, absolutely it. patco is being affected as well by delayed, and cancelled trains. so you really have to do a little bit of dig to go find out how your trains are being affected but again evening commute certainly at a stand still for most and folks are just scrambling to figure out how to get home and out of this weather. that is very latest at 30th street station natasha brown for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >> hopefully everyone stays safe. >>> wind is also a threat to drivers. tree felon a september bus this afternoon as it was headed west on the schuylkill expressway. this happened near gladwynn exit, there were passengers on the bus but no reports of any injuries. the westbound lanes were closed for over an hour until that tree could be cut up, hauled away. >>> also a scary commuor

. >> karen getting word of a new crash on the northeast extension southbound just past lansdale. luckily it's off to the side and no big delays so far this morning on the regional rails. stick around. top stories coming your way after this break. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> top stories at 6:58. the race is on for power crews to get the lights and the heat back on for thousands of people still without power. peco says it already has a plan in place for our area's second nor'easter which is arriving later tonight. >>> a tractor-trailer smashed into an overpass which ripped the roof off the trailer and then the driver kept going to thatless for another 3 miles through the narrow streets of philadelphia dragging the roof behind. the driver finally stopped in the city's point breeze section. >> maybe he didn't knows. i don't know. we're noticing a big delay on 95 and southbound approaching cottman into girard. at least our crash on 95 in delaware on the northbound off ramp to airport road is now off to the side. so delays thinning there. and in delaware county still some storm damage, portions o

had a broken down vehicle on the northeast extension southbound past lansdale taking out a lane. speeds in the 40's coming down from quakertown. and a whole bunch of crashes in south jersey including one in blackwood along chews landing road, tam. >> thank you, matt. >>> now let's go and take a live look there out across center city. that's the view from sky6. beautiful tuesday morning but will that skyline change? i bet it will, karen rogers. >> certainly will but it is nice to start, isn't it? let's take a look at the timeline of this storm. i was just doing a facebook live. a lot of people concerned about it. the timeline of this storm from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. light rain wet snow arriving. tomorrow's commute snowing north and west. the city itself light rain and a little bit of a mix and rain south and east. and then it's really wednesday through the afternoon into the evening where that windy condition set up, the heavy wet snow that make it difficult to drive in so be careful and we'll be around the clock with updates, tam. >> thank you, karen. a tractor-trailer smashed

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