i'm elizabeth taylor and i'm so excited about this book. i got this book seems like nine months ago and read it so quickly and found it it is the story of the 70's. it was amazing social history. so just in short, it's blood in the water, i read this book and then we had the book for the chicago tribune row lit fest and how much we looked, pulitzer prize in history. it's really wonderful. it's an extraordinary book. it's about this 1971 uprising but it is so much more. it's extraordinarily social history. it's fantastic. it also sort -- heather is an investigative reporter and digs in there and gets documents and the ten years of research are shown very lightly. you really want to know who was responsible, what the hell happened and then what the implications are for incarceration in this -- in this crazy country of ours. so i'm going to turn it over to heather and her wonderful colleague and friend julie houseman who was at cornell and they are really going to get into it and then after that, i really hope we will go to the back and buy an

with that, i'm going to throw it over to our interviewer, elizabeth taylor, the literary editor at large for the "chicago tribune." [applause] >> hi. thank you. are these mics on? great. you can hear me? thank you so much for coming out. this is a wonderful turnout for a wonderful book, and we're delighted to be here. i've actually -- in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of sidney blumenthal's four -- to be four volumes on lincoln, and i'm really excite it -- excited about this one. i loved that one and this is even norwich. "wrestling with the angel. ". so, like to set the stage. begins in march 1849. lincoln returns to springfield to practice law. 1849. and then 1856, no-nothing party, nominates bill moore for president, national convention for the republican party. we have that blackdrop. what's the title about? >> host: "wrestling with his angel" is a title i took from the story of jacob in the bible in the bible, jacob wrestles through a long night, possible my with himself. the bible says an angel. and at the end of the night, and with the break of dawn, he comes

we are in front of the whitman walker clinic, the elizabeth taylor center.oing on behind us. we will step out of the way to show you what is going on behind us. >> we re whitman walker health center. it will be redeveloped in a couple of months. my business partner is up there now. 30,000 square foot project we're painting in partnership with five square development and whitman walker health center and in part thanks to a grant by the d.c. office of planning which will allow us to do tons of free events. block party throughout the summer. check us out at lizlot.com. #lizlot. lizlot.com. steve: the big event coming up on the 4th of july. you don't want to miss it. we head back inside to a cooler studio although it's great out here now. michelle: don't complain. you look great out there. thank you, steve. next at 4:00, making fast food faster and putting delivery service to the test. not just timing but taste. see if it's worth it to have your french fry fix brought right to you. michelle: if going out to get fast food is inconvenient, there are ways around it

and building up the whitman walker clinic at the height of the hiv/aids crisis, even enlisting elizabeth taylorcal fight. whitman walker health serves a far broader group of those in need with a wide variety of medical services and other help. don blanchen leads whitman walker now and considers graham a mentor. >> i always considered jim the father of this place. he years during the darkest days of the aids epidemic. he believed all politics were local. that people had the power to change things locally. >> reporter: throughout his council career, graham kept a witty sense of humor. one that colleagues say they'll also miss. tom sherwood, news 4. >> he will be missed. >>> dramatic video as a blimp erupts into a ball of flames near the u.s. open of all places. see the crash as it unfolds and the ending that is nothing short of a miracle. >>> closure in question. why victims of the beltway sniper shootings are reliving the for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is d

i got liz lelizabeth taylor -- building on 14th street says elizabeth taylor on the board because she helped out here. they have a brand-new building on 14th street because i talked to the people there today, they said without jim graham this would not have happened. >> we were so sorry to hear it. it was so unexpected. >> he had a bacterial infection. he went very quickly. he lost lots of weight and he didn't make it. >> bless his heart. just 71? >> 71. >> young guy. he did set the bar on school specs. >> and the bowties. >> i have a story at 6:00, we have him in the bowtie,ri volkswagen. >>> saw that. thank you, tom. >>> doug, how is the weather? >> today, wendy, weather is good out there. pretty nice. we're looking at some partly cloudy skies, sunshine. temperatures today much cooler, in the low 80s. exactly where they should be. average high temperatures, 84. where is our number? 84. 84 hagerstown. 82 richmond. ocean city, 70 degrees. we have that onshore flow. with that we're seeing a bit in the way of cooler weather, lower dew points and humidity. tracking a line of storms to th

he is seen here with the late actress elizabeth taylor. >> he saw the need in community about stepped in and said we have to do something locally and get people engaged. his engagement cut across all aspects of society. jim felt like we had to find every resource we could to bring compassion to bear on the aids epidemic. sam: mayor bowser issued a statement calling jim graham a fierce champion for d.c.'s ward one. particularly, on issues like affordable housing. while i was standing here one of the shop owners noticed i was here. he didn't know the news. he just said, "well, he was very responsive." reporting from north west washington, i'm sam ford, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. resentence lee boyd malvo. he was just 17 years toed when he took part in the -- years old when he took part in the sniper shootings that terrorized the area. stephen tschida reports a recent ruling could change his punishment. stephen: a judge ordered resentencing for lee boyd malvo. he is now 32 years old and he was 17 at the time of the sniper shootings that claimed ten lives and injured three others in 200

and this is when one of their own, an opera singer named elizabeth taylor greenfield, came up from philadelphia, black singer, to sing. and the hall in which she was to sing did not have a segregated section. and so the black elite were turned away and told that they couldn't enter. so they raised a brouhaha and were finally allowed to get in. so that is to show the confusion. the real whimsy that operated in new york for the black elite and for all black new yorkers. for the remainder, for my next half of the talk i'm going to focus on this area which is something that dana asked me to do, and i'm going to be focusing specifically on three sites. one is broadway, another is lawrence street which was parallel to thompson street north of houseton, and the third is -- and that's the lawrence street school. and the third is the african grove theater which was located on mercer street. and i want to show two things. one, the way in which distance and proximity still obtained in this area, and the other is i think i see a way to also point out while i'm talking about place and what happened in certa

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stuart taylor examined college campus sexual assault policies. and dr. elizabeth rosenthal, editor-in-chief of kaiser health news, reported on the current state of health care. in the coming weeks on "after words," new america president and ceo anne marine slaughter will examine how technology is impacting foreign affairs, and minnesota senator al franken will discuss his senate cap pain. campaign. rachel schneider will report on how low and moderate income families manage money. and this weekend on "after words," nebraska senator ben sass argues that america's youth are not prepared for adulthood. >> when i got here, i wanted to spend my time getting to know these people and trying to figure out why doesn't the senate work, because it doesn't. we're not focused on the long-term issues. so i interviewed a majority of the senators in private to get to know them well. and i'm one of the three or four most conservative people in the senate by voting record, but i'm not very partisan. i don't think either of these parties are very impressive. so i was indifferent to s

elizabeth will make a speech. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, i am taylorg. tom: let's get to what. a lot going on. -- let's get to it. the curve is flattening through 80 basis points. you are beginning to see some analysis of the migration towards the road, a flat yield. nowhere near that yet. up.ve brent crude 45.85 on the global oil price. i will let you talk about sterling this morning. francine: sterling is extending his decline. oil is tumbling because of the bear market. i am looking at wti. now, let's talk more on the u.k. and the u.k. prime minister, theresa may, will produce a logistical agenda for her party. the plans will be read out implement by the queen but unusually, this year's queen's speech will cover a two-year program as stripped of some of the pageantry. anna edwards is close to westminster. what are we expecting or what are people hoping to hear about brexit? anna: it comes down to how much granularity we got in the speech. it is written by the governor and delivered by the queen as set out an agenda for two years because there is suc