this is a beautiful royal worcester figure.he bather surprised" but i was puzzled at the title. you see, she doesn't look surprised at all. i think she's been expecting it to happen all along. but she's a gorgeous girl modeled by sir thomas brock, who was a great victorian modeler. and he actually designed the great central queen victoria monument, yes. outside buckingham palace. so, he was an important chap and he made this model for royal worcester. the colors are very 1920s. right. earlier on there was stained ivory. sort of darker in color, but she was a very boisterous, modern girl at the time, and, uh, she's done in three different sizes. a large one. this is the medium size. crikey. and a little baby. what's that? i think she's gorgeous. how did you come by it? um, it belonged to my grandma, and, uh, i inherited it when she passed away. my grandparents were travelers with a fairground, and, um, i always remembered that she said that-- that it traveled in their wagon with them and that they used to have to lay it on the b

i-- i-- i hope-- no, because i helped charles ii escape after the battle of worcester.id, did you? yes, i did, yeah. right, okay. i remember that. and-- and so i would've become a cavalier. and, uh, this little piece is just a fragment of a pot that i found in a well in worcester. now, that's me dressed up in a cavalier's costume. fantastic. that's what i would've looked like. so, you would've liked the clothes, then, would you? oh, i would've loved to do it with a waistcoat and a wig, and a plumed hat, and, uh-- and you would carry your cane as you walk around the town. lovely gaiters and things like that. i can just picture myself dressed like that. i think it's only appropriate when we're looking at the age of elegance and what makes up elegance to be looking at a fantastic costume like this and the wonderful pieces that you've brought in. where have they come from? well, these are all part of the collection of the little theatre in gateshead. so, these costumes are actually used on stage? absolutely. oh, yes. whenever possible. yes. we're always dying to get costume

, massachusetts, or worcester, ohio, too many cases have shut down plants in moving overseas simply or mostly because of currency, not to mention tax breaks that encourage companies that -- that allow companies to deduct the cost of moving their plant overseas against their federal tax, those are the kinds of things that average americans are waiting for the house of representatives to act, legislation that will make a real difference in their lives right now. i said i'm fine with the no budget, no pay act. we should pass a budget. we should move forward on that. we need to raise the debt ceiling and stop playing politics with this, but let the house of representatives get moving on the issues that affect everyday americans. that's all about jobs, that's all about this economic recovery. madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. brown: madam president? the presiding officer: yes, the senator from ohio. mr. brown: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the quorum. the presiding officer: without objection.

also think about the interns. 1,393, who have come in and out of our offices from washington to worcester and i am especially proud of those who started as interns and ended up as my chief of staff, a legislative director, senior policy staffers or the kerry interns who went to to work not just for me and who have for the last four years have been top speech writers and senior communication staff at the white house for the president of the united states. i am proud of our internship program and am grateful to the people -- >> senator john kerry saying farewell after 28 years in the senate. naping a laundry list of staffers and thanking them for their work. as we saw with his confirmation hearing, the smooth road. tomorrow can be different. former republican senator chuck hagel's hearing for secretary of defense is another thing. lindsay graham is vowing a process. >> the one thing i'm not going to do is vote on a new secretary of defense until the old secretary of defense, leon panetta who i like very much, testifies about what happened in benghazi. >> attention is on who was financing th

>> joe early was a congressman from worcester, massachusetts, he was my kind of politician and my kindcongressman. he cared about that city. he brought lots of money back, projects back and he lost his career in a trumped up fake scandal that rick santorum and john boehner created. he lost his career, his reputation. he was put on trial, was exonerated but spent the last 20 years totally unappreciated and he died this year and i think he deserves at least a little recognition. >> krystal? >> phyllis diller. >> alex, sorry to see you go? >> i have two. george mcgovern and robby shancar. very different men. their losses will be felt in different worlds but they were kingmakers. >> and i'm very sorry to see go whitney houston. >> yeah. >> we're going to be back with more of our last word holiday show. [ fishing rod casting line, marching band playing ] [ male announcer ] the rhythm of life. [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it... in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. great taste. mmm... [ male announcer ] sounds

so they quickly set up their presses in watertown and worcester in order to serve the patriot cause. and another set of printer ors came down from salem and renamed their up newspaper the independt chronicle to, again, support the patriot cause. one of the ways they supported the patriot cause, they printed reports for the massachusetts government talking about how awful this british attack on concord had been and how many, how they had fired without provocation on these soldiers or these farmers lined up in lexington and how they had attacked houses on the afternoon of that day. all -- a copy of the newspaper with this report and this version of the battle of lexington and concord, the provincial congress commissioned a ship from salem to carry this across to london. and the ship sailed in ballast which meant it didn't have any cargo. they didn't stop to put in any cargo. the entire voyage was being paid for by the new patriot massachusetts government in order to get their version of what was happening to london first. and it worked, because general gauge had sent out his report, bu

it was made at the worcester factory. okay, that's good. probably in the flight & barr period. the painting sometimes attributed to an artist called thomas baxter. it might be him, it might not be. but it's just such a-- it's a jewel-like object, isn't it? i think it's probably £1,200 or £1,500. wow. really? yeah. wow. ha ha ha! anything you know about this one? that's a pair. a pair? is the other exactly the same? no, i guess she's eating grass, i suppose. so, she's the sheep, and this is the ram. yes, yes. fussy again. lovely, lovely fuss. no mark. would you believe that's 18th century? yeah, yeah. about 1765. really? yes, made in england at bow. that's nice. what's incredible is this wonderful bocage at the back. each of these little flower petals have been applied by hand, each leaf applied by hand. and this piece has survived like that since 1765. made in the-- incredible, isn't it? a little bit more expensive. a pair of those is gonna be £2,500, maybe £3,000. my god, really? yes. well, they're quite special. a pair of 18th century animals in good condition-- wonderful thi

one 10-year-old girl-- >> a 10-year-old girl named laura buckton, lets go upon a balloon-- >> past worcester>> past millions of people. >> people with different lives, different names. >> gloucester. >> and lands in the backyard of a 10-year-old girl-- >> girl number two, can you introduce yourself? >> i'm laura buckton? >> what? how the hell could that happen? when we asked the two 10-year-old girls if what happened to thesms a miracle-- >> the chance is so unlikely there must be some kind of reason. >> what's phrase? >> it was a very, very lucky wind. >> a lucky wind. >> yes. >> just a lucky wind, really. >> it seemed like a magical story. >> this was bound to happen. statistically, this was going to happen some time to someone. >> fair enough, really, because it just happens to be us, and it it we're statistics. >> we can talk about the math of the miraculous inside that story of these two 10 girls. >> we if put jad robert on a magical roller coaster of feeling like there's magic in the air. >> it's not just an idea. it's not just science or a philosophical thought. i want to see where th

a kind of worcester could get down there to see what's going on. then i got the opportunity. a briefcase came in from the white house from president johnson full of papers. region have a diplomatic couriers in the. is it you go. we drove to the night. i said the back from one to kept chipping the rest. i get down there in the morning in the one was there except helicopters flying over all of the cows and goats going completely out of the mind. they're running around like crazy, just berserk for fear of the helicopters. the people stand around not knowing what to do it themselves . where is the american ambassador? oprah's he is down the coast. on the beach, and that is where the ambassador was supposed to be. so i said, let's go down there. we went. and just as i got there, just as i got there the ambassador came striding out of the hotel wearing nothing but a bathing suit and a bathing cap. and i tried to stop the ambassador. somehow give him the briefcase. i did not know the combination. it did give me the combination. the head of security was down there. did you relieved m

worcester, we saw live shots out of there this morning. it was getting a good amount of snow. you here, charlie, when l.a. is warming up? thursday, 75. friday, 78. even san diego is beautiful at 71 degrees. it's been unbearably cold on the west coast. >> i'm going home. >> you can go. you're always welcome. >> some mornings are just amazing here. and this is one of them. >> thank you. thank you. it's fabulous. >> fabulous. >>> so much more coming up. so much more on our "gma morning menu." take a look. jennifer lopez, opening up in a stunning interview. why she cried recording her new song. and her big challenge now as a mom. >>> plus, are you sitting on hidden cash in your own home? we're going to show you how to find it. >>> and the workoutwear that keeps you up and zaps out more calories. we're going to try that. >>> and charlie sheen is with us, live on "gma," right here in times square. stay with us. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] nothing gets you going quite like the power of quaker oats. today is going to be epic. quaker up. that make kids happy. and even fe

it extends from northern new england all the way down into the gulf of mexico and in areas like worcester, we are seeing the snow continuing to fall where he duwith reduced visibility and schools shut down in that area. but then look back into western virginia. that's where we have winter storm watches, but it's the ice storm warnings and the freezing rain advisories extending back into portions of tennessee and into mississippi as well. you can see the pink on the map there on the radar. we are still seeing freezing rain. it makes the roads very slippery, and driving conditions are treacherous in that area. then it transitions over into snow. it's coming down pretty heavily up through boston, stretching right back into providence, rhode island. lighter outside of 495 in that area, but it is still making a mess of the roadways, and we are looking within 24 hours to see about 3 to 6 inches in that a a area. the lighter shade of blue there is a 24-hour snow total, and everywhere else across the northeast basically from northern maine right down to northern pennsylvania, even northern new je

the more we openly talk about it and not just worcester about it, the less likely we are to see it ashus. >> let's talk about the arctic blast bridging plunging cold and snow. this morning many are waking up to plunging temperatures. foughts in the eastern united states frozen this morning. right now it's still in the teens across most of wisconsin, but frigid cold also touching areas that have so far been basking in a mild winter. temperatures in the 20s, reaching as far south as south carolina and georgia. let's check in with meteorologist alexandra steele to finding out when we can all get warm again. >> all right. it's going to be a while. the biggest problem, though, the arctic air, that's there, check. the moisture, less so. so here's the storm system we're watching, a little bit of snow, snow showers through the chicago/ohio valley. the most dangerous weather right here in kentucky and tennessee. that's really where the ice bull's eye is. here's where we're seeing ice reports. take a look at this. i want to show you what i-65 looks like. this is southbound i-65. it's a ten-car

what does it 393 have come in and out of offices from washington to worcester and i'm especially proud restarted as interns and ended up as a chief of staff, legislative direct or commit senior policy staffers for the kerry in terms an untruth not just for me, but you have for the last four years at top speechwriters, tractor or compass intercommunication step the white house and president of the united states. i'm proud of our internship program is great for the people who built it and sustain it. i also want to thank the incredible group of unsung heroes who literally make the senate were. people who work not for individual senators, but all of us in every round and can creamy of this great series of buildings. the men and women who operate the senate subways, trains, elevators take us to the vote meeting i really the glue and we couldn't function without them there an extraordinary group of people. the capitol police to protect us, a lot of people are understood to notice more after that awful day made 298 when two were shot and killed on a busy wednesday afternoon. the parliamentar

i yield the customary 30 minutes, to the gentleman, my friend from worcester, massachusetts, mr.overn, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sessions: all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks on h.r. 325. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sessions: today's debate is about one very simple but profoundly important goal, mr. speaker, and that is restoring our vibrant economy by reducing the crippling weight of the growing debt caused by our federal government. in the coming months, we face a string of deadlines that will force congress and the administration to address the fundamental challenge of our trillion dollar deficit and its mounting effect on our economy and jobs in america. we have already exceeded the $16 trillion in debt, and republicans find this debt level absolutely unacceptable. and that is why we are here today. by contrast, president obama seems t

this is worcester, massachusetts. i've already heard that the schools are canceled for the day.y areas of connecticut, massachusetts and rhode island and northern jersey are looking at either delays or cancellations at all your children's schools. here's the radar. this isn't even a major snowstorm. i doubt anyone's going to see six inches, but the timing was horrible, starting in the overnight, intense now over areas of rhode island to boston, connecticut. the timing for the morning commute, really bad. the plows are trying to keep up with it, but even though it's only three, four, five inches of snow, it's coming down at a pretty good clip. down along the connecticut coast, southern rhode island and new york city, the sleet's been nasty. about a half inch of sleet making sidewalks and roads very, very dangerous. so far the airports no delays. this map an hour from now will look a lot worse. trust me on that as the flights get up and going. the forecast today will be above freezing in the big cities. so we're not worried about the roads late today. going home will be a lot easi

lieutenant jones earned his engineering degree at worcester polytech nique institute. when he earned his degree he also was an awarded an rotc scholarship in the reserve officer training corps. he led his fellow soldiers as a platoon leader in the army's first infantry division while employed in iraq in --deployed in iraq in 2007. i guess as a member of the big red one i would note i also served with that unit many years ago. tragically on may 2, 2007, lieutenant jones was killed in action by an improvised explosive device set by our enemy. he leaves behind his parents of westminster, massachusetts. he was awarded several awards for his heroism, including the bronze star, the purple heart, and the iraqi freedom medal. and the combat action badge. for the war on terrorism. i am grateful for lieutenant jones' service, his bravery in the battlefield, and i regret that the naming of this post office is so appropriate because yet another one of our finest has paid such a high price by an enemy who uses hidden explosives rather than confront us in any direct way. with that i

i also think about the interns -- 1,39 p who have come oust our offices from washington to worcester and i am especially proud of those who started as interns and ended up as my chief of staff, a legislative director, senior policy staffers, or the kerry interns who went on to work not just for me but who have for the last four years been top speechwriters, trip directors, senior communications staff at the white house for the president of the united states. i'm proud of our internship program, and i'm grateful to the people who built it and who sustain it. i also want to thank the incredible group of unsung heroes who literally make the senate work, people who work not for individual senators but work for all of us in every room and nook and cranny of this great series of buildings, the men and women who operate the senate subways -- darryl, and many others -- the trains, the he verities, they take -- the elevators, they take us to the meetings. they are the glue. we couldn't function without them. they are an extraordinary group of people. the capitol police who protect us. the pol