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California but for new england by the time we get to the weekend. torrential rains in california. we have blizzard conditions in the mountains with 90 mile-per-hour wind. there are flash flood watches in and around los angeles, the blizzard warnings high surf. heres the know forecast. three to six inches over areas of the midwest, ohio valley, much of north of interstate 70. when you talk about high impact snows, syracuse, scranton, albany. when we get on i-95, were going to get front end snow i...

Todd: thats one part of the interesting frank biden part of our day. the other part he said most of the family out there in scranton, pa voted for president trump because they didnt like hillary clinton how crazy is that? you wanted expect the biden family a pretty staunch democratic family. obviously biden has been in democratic circles for years and years and years. he was the vice president. they voted for president trump. rachel: i live in a district also a lot of blue dog democrats and they...

Democratic voters? is it beating trump? you think former vice president, kid from scranton, can do the blue car stuff. or is it -- look at the house of representatives. more pressure in the party and biden is out of step. which is it? >> democrats have not really cracked the code on how to effectively attack president trump, and thats partly what this primary will test. well see a lot of different ways the president is going to get attacked. this is not a biden democratic party, this is a party ...

Over glass to get to the polls on election day. >> the way that trump supporters did in 2016 and might do again in 2020. >> right. >> biden. is he the shiniest tool in the tool box right now because he hasnt officially announced and he hasnt had to go up against a number of other democrats? >> i think -- i dont think he is that shiny to base voters. i think there is a real sense right now -- >> hes the one that is the lead in all the polls. >> but i dont think thats base necessarily. i think the...

Senator kamala harris is her fellow california senator. what do you think? >> i mean, good honor but im going to have to respectfully disagree. look, joe biden has name recognition, people like him and in fairness hes the most sort of populist seeming of a long legacy of centrist corporate democrats. he talked tough, hes from scranton, he talks about that all the time so he sort of seemed like the most -- bearing in mind hes from the great banking state of delaware. but he earned that reputation...

House did while lelizabeth warrn did far worse than the house did in her state. >> joe biden is leading. what do you think? >> the fact is there is going to be a case made for joe biden. and biden has those roots in scranton, pennsylvania as he likes to say so much. look, he is beating trump in the recall polls but at this particular point its very difficult to look at the early polls for the general election and project out whether or not those are going to be accurate. i think joe biden has a ...

Beachfront property in scranton, but somehow it doesnt grab people, especially the older people get, that this is such a critical issue. how do you as a candidate translate the importance of paying attention and doing something trying to get elected? how do you do it? >> in our state its two things. one, its climate-dependent jobs, its putting food on the table for families. two, its a public safety issue. with longer, dryer summers, weve had an increase in incidents of forest fires over the las...

Scranton to mexico and it was because of the low wage rates they could get in mexico in the mid 90s after nafta went into effect and tv manufacturing is not affected at all by this current deal, everything thats made in this country ought to be subject to better deal. maria: how long are you going to be willing to stretch this out before voting for this deal? i mean the whole uncertainty of it on whether or not the congress votes for ratification of u.s. mca will certainly un nerve markets. >> w...

To be in the area of scranton, p.a. we have -- none of us have a connection to it. its a good choice. big enough to not have neighbors around. we cooked together, we ate together, we had conversations. we recovered from the stress of being on the run like we were. and we had a lot of space to roam around in. here we could go off and be by ourself. >> they were traumatized, i think. i mean, they had watched their friends and comrades be murdered. live on television. from my perspective, to take a...

Said before, unite the working class. that was the one thread that we saw between bernie krats and trumpsters was that they really believed in this message of the forgotten man and that whole trade message. and economic advancement. >> the american people are not greedy. they just want what they have, social security, medicare, medicaid, and a job for their kids. thats what people want in scranton, thats all they want. give it to them. heidi przybyla -- this is "hardball" where the action is. >>...