so caesar catskill wasted no time. "on my way to washington in order to get this most outrageous and inhuman order of major general grant countermanded," he announced, and like a latter day paul revere, he rode down to washington spreading the news of general orders number 11 wherever he went. arriving in the nation's capital just as the jewish sabbath was concluding on january the 3rd, he called at once upon cincinnati's outgoing republican congressman john addison girly who enjoyed ready access to the white house. the congressman with catskill in tow sought an immediate audience with the president. and according to the likely embellished account published many years later, lincoln sent word that he was always glad to see his friends and shortly made his appearance. abraham lincoln turned out to have no knowledge whatsoever of general orders number 11 because it had not reached washington. the telegraph lines were down. according to an oft-quoted report, lincoln resorted to biblical imagery in his interview with catsk

places like the catskill game farm i had a good and easy time the owners were nice but the s.s.nited states that was extraordinarily difficult. back when norwegian owned it. and at this point i think if i had five return percent success rate that was great maybe it is 15 hours 20 percent. it is better but still a lot of for and failures and heartache when you put a lot of work into a place to see it and you don't get to. >> is liability a concern correct. >> sometimes they don't care. they could say liability you can say i do have insurance that was what i said to say no. [laughter] but it is problematic for property owners. places have been torn down because of so many people breaking into them and that was one of the reasons they brought up. particularly with the interest we have passed the point where you are n of place if you wander onto our property comely mike ryan into a property order to say oh you want to take pictures of the old building that is strange go do that but now people are used to taking pictures and there is a very real concern of vandalism and liability so

places like the catskill game farm i had a good and easy time the owners were nice but the s.s.nited states that was extraordinarily difficult. back when norwegian owned it. and at this point i think if i had five return percent success rate that was great maybe it is 15 hours 20 percent. it's better but it's still a lot of work and a lot of failures b and a lot of heartache when you put a lot of work into it and you want to see it and you don't get to. [inaudible] >> you would ask if liability. was a big concern. i think that's one of the concerns but sometimes people don't care about that. they might say well you know liability and we are worried about that, okay i have liabili insurance. that was just a thing i was telling you to say, no. the other thing too is there's a lot more interest in these places and that's been really problematic for a lot of property owners but it's been really problematic so there have been places that have torn down because of so many people breaking into them. at least that was one of the reasons they brought up for it. and so i think particularl

it's still snowing hard hudson valley and up through the catskills. that's where we're going to see the additional three to six inches throughout the day today. as far as the boston area, you're just about done. hartford just about done. we're going to have a lot of cancellations. we'll give you the details throughout the morning. >> bill, thank you. >>> breaking news this morning out of louisiana regarding the death of new orleans saints star, will smith. just hours ago a jury capped off a week long trial. they found cardel hayes guilty and found him guilty of attempted manslaughter for wounding he retrieved a gun from his damaged suv. the prosecution says evidence shows smith never armed himself and hayes was not justified in firing. he will be sentenced february 17th. >>> turning to politics where the associated press is quoting an official state run newspaper calling donald trump quote as ignorant as a child after the considering how america deals with taiwan. and we have word that two republican senators have joined law makers demands for a bipar

coming toward the catskills here and pennsylvania and northern ohio. if you have travels over the next couple day, you could run into that. bigger picture, snows, even in west virginia. a lot of clouds into the mountains out west but we are dealing with sunshine. so with the sun at least temperatures are responding nicely. still quite breezy. hagerstown. -- 30 miles per hour in hagerstown. and washington gusting to 25 miles per hour. right now, 39 degrees in town. freezing for win chester and front royal. 37 in -- for winchester and front royal. when the wind is not blowing, it's not so bad but the wind is blowing. barely above 30 here in the district for wind chills. and for the afternoon, temperatures approaching we won't get too much warmer than now. tonight, down in the 3s with 20s overnight -- the 30s with 20s overnight. details for you this a few minutes. and of course, you can get the forecast and watch our newscast on the wusa 9 app. so take us with you if you can't join us here. >> thank you. >>> at this hour, a man is learning his fate for hi

potential for that ice across parts of upstate from even parts of the poconos into the adirondacks and catskillsions are just confined right up there to parts of dakotas, where winds are blowing at 30 miles per hour. windchills are 15 to 30 degrees below zero. it is very cold there. travel should be in pretty good shape across the rest of the country as we see our warmer than normal temperatures across the eastern half. things look good all rainfall. not really anything to make significant delays but if you're traveling to the airport today, expect 15 to 30 minutes. that should be your biggest delay. temperatures for new york city tomorrow, don, poppy, 17 degrees above normal. poppy i know you don't want that -- >> above normal? i thought you said 17 degrees. >> i like it. i saw someone jogging yesterday in brooklyn with like a tank top on. >> it's christmas. >> thanks, chad. >> you're welcome. >>> relations between the u.s. and israel very tense following the u.n. vote on friday. who is israel talking to? the president? or the president-elect? we'll discuss. as a supervisor at pg&e, it's my job