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>> for me its about condensing, like senator warren, everything into one minute. its basically speed dating with the american people. within one minute you have to leave some impression with them about who you are, where you come from and what you stand for and trying to get that into a minute is probably the biggest challenge. >> speed dating with the american people. theres your headline. so give me your sell to the american people. why are you not so similar to the front-runner, joe biden? jo...

Comments in particular the one that stuck out to me was how he told a group of wealthy donors that, you know, your lifestyle is going to change. nothing is fundamentally going to change. i realize, you know, he has an image as working class joe from scranton that a lot of voters know, that a lot of voters have loved over the years, but there is also a populist strain in the party thats personified by bernie sanders and elizabeth warren and frankly making those comments to a group of donors behin...

I endorsed joe biden, i think, before he got to the end of the sentence, where he announced for president and its because ive been pretty friendly with vice president biden for a long time. hes from scranton. hes a person of great humility, i think thats what people like about him. here is a man who has known sorrow and pain as much as any other american, starting when he was a little kid and his father lost his job and they had to move from scranton down to delaware delaware in search of other ...

Scandal. [cheers and applause] ainsley: not one hint of a scandal. there was hillary clinton emails. benghazi, fast and furious, irs, targeting the conservative groups like the tea party. steve: is he talking about scandals. lets go out and talk to some of the folks gathered here in the studio f today. where is kate? good morning, kate, where are from you. >> im from scranton, pennsylvania. steve: i have been there. beautiful town. >> yes, it is. steve: what do you make of joe biden surging on t...

Across the political spectrum for a d-day address that temporarily soothed the nerves of nato allies and foreign policy analysts alike. forgive democrats for being less than impressed by their nemesis reading skills, but they should not forget their ability to dislodge the donald from 1600 pennsylvania avenue next year may depend on a certain scranton, pennsylvania, native doing the same. considering that joe biden, the democrats best hope for 2020, has a checkered past as a candidate for nation...

Are you building your infrastructure? are you able to, you know, keep growing that base of support? thats whats real critical for him. >> charlie, there athere are a democrats coming out hard after joe biden and one of the biggest things he had to fix was his prior support for the hyde amendment which, as you know, bans federal funds for abortion. he reversed that several days ago, but as a front-runner, as he tries to fend off these other 22 candidates, charlie, do expect biden to be targeted e...

Quote completely get away with it. so he is, you know, when youre the front-runner, it comes with a lot of baggage and it is not the easiest place to be. >> it is also the vice president, katty kay, has been challenged on not being progressive enough and the moderate guy that can appeal to the youngstown and scranton and win those states back and he has to make moves that appears to be a nod to the left. >> and it is interesting that he chose to do so after this one, he clearly feld after heidis...

"its not my job." thats because right where you live, theres a need for your time and skills and effort and talent. please consider volunteering and feeling that feeling that you helped someone today. thing one tonight, an update in the paul manafort case. his home address the next. years or so is a federal jail in scranton, pennsylvania. his former address belongs to us. a judge granted the forfeiture to the u.s. as part. his guilty plea. year. you are now part owner. unit 43 g in. 21.

Jersey and even down into new york. 24 tornadoes yesterday. look at the wind reports. 204 reports of wind damage yesterday. many of those were across pennsylvania. well see more today. this weather brought to you by green mountain coffee roasters, packed with goodness. what did may truly look like? heres your calendar. only three days in may we didnt have a tornado touch down. 513 tornadoes total. if you go back to april 30 it was 75 tornadoes that day. you can do the math. thats almost 600 torn...

Lets get right to rob tonight, who is watching all of this and this urgent threat involving tornadoes across several states. rob? >> reporter: yes, david. another night of expensive storm coverage, including some of the big cities. here in new york, well get it in an hour. but im worried about folks to our south, including philadelphia. here is the storm watch across all of pennsylvania, but theres a warning up for just to the south of philadelphia, im worried about chester, im worried about wil...