abigail adams immediately faced it.severely hurt by the press and the sort of things they published, it actually at that point did not find it appropriate to attack the president's lady as a way to get at the president politically. which of course is what has happened, from abigail adams to michelle obama, with hardly a break in between. since there was no white house, when the washington's left the presidency and came back home to mount vernon, mount vernon was actually the symbol of the presidency. there was no white house -- they were building it, there was no white house that they lived in. it was quite a few years before the white house took on that symbolic weight. for years afterward, there were still subregions of george washington's birth night. it to abigail adams. despair, i cannot believe they did not do john adams' birthnight. i hope i am not cutting you out here. there was still washington's birthday. people still flocked to mount vernon, as they still do, but the hundreds, first to see the great man himse

i'm not a boomer; i'm a codger, [laughter] and abigail, my much younger sister...rette. ...is a codgerette and her theory is that we made the boomers possible. absolutely. i won't go that far, but i think that boomer is a generation that's never been tested... oh no! no. ...in any kind of real way and i think that this kind of exercise, the competition, some of the things they do is in a way to test themselves. helen is shaking her head. tell us... i really disagree with you. [alan laughs] as the codger says. as the codger says. well, boomers have not been tested in the same way that codgers have been tested and boomers have also been raised to believe that the world need have no limits and that anything is possible if you work hard enough, are smart enough, try hard enough, and are motivated enough. that's denial. that's how boomers were raised to live. there are many outcomes of that, which have been very positive and there are ways that that can be a very very effective message for one time in the life cycle. the notion that there are no limits absolutely doesn'

her name was abigail. you want to see abigail today. look. she's married. >> my goodness.abigail married adam on sunday. she's a fourth-year med student, adam is a financial adviser. you think they will make it? gee. abigail -- i can still remember her and her big sis alisa. they were lighting the candles, abigail crying. now all grown up. >> see, you scared her for life? she turned it into something good. scarred. >>> way to if, debbie. if you have an event you would like to see us mention on the air e-mail us. morningshow@wmar.com. we'll be right back. explain. oh yea, well for 6 months, customers get all three: fios tv, internet and phone for just $79.99 a month. oh, all right, see... you're just moving your fingers, aren't you? i gotta cut my nails. (announcer) now get three amazing fios services for the price of two. tv, internet, and phone for only... for the first 6 months. it all adds up to one incredible deal from fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800.974.6006 tty/v unlike cable, fios brings 100% fiber optics straight to your home, f

. >> sharon, abigail, jay, they all went out to dinner that night.here to this mexican restaurant, the el yoyote. unbeknownst to them this would be their last meal. >> after 10:30, got back to cielo. greta: and a sinister plan was being hatched by charles manson at spahn ranch. >> he told his family we can ignite "helter skelter," start this war between blacks and whites. by committing the murders ourselves. >> manson told watson to go up to the house at 10,050 cielo drive and kill everybody there. greta: why that house? >> the house was a symbol. it didn't matter who lived there. it was striking out at something that melcher had been attached to. >> he knew that melcher was no longer living there. greta: manson remained behind as watson, crenwinkle drove off in a ranch hand's car. joining them on their mission of murder was a recent addition to the family, 19-year-old linda kasabian. >> linda kasabian was a runaway. she had left home and was traveling around the country. and she wound up at the manson spahn ranch. she, crenwinkle, susan atkins and t

. >> sharon, abigail, jay, they all went out to dinner that night.four came here to this mexican restaurant, the el yoyote. unbeknownst to them this would be their last meal. >> after 10:30, got back to cielo. greta: and a sinister plan was being hatched by charles manson at spahn ranch. >> he told his family we can ignite "helter skelter," start this war between blacks and whites. by committing the murders ourselves. >> manson told watson to go up to the house at 10,050 cielo drive and kill everybody there. greta: why that house? >> the house was a symbol. it didn't matter who lived there. it was striking out at something that melcher had been attached to. >> he knew that melcher was no longer living there. greta: manson remained behind as watson, crenwinkle drove off in a ranch hand's car. joining them on their mission of murder was a recent addition to the family, 19-year-old linda kasabian. >> linda kasabian was a runaway. she had left home and was traveling around the country. and she wound up at the manson spahn ranch. she, crenwinkle, susan at

. >> sharon, abigail, jay, they all went out to dinner that night.e four came here to this mexican restaurant, the el yoyote. unbeknownst to them this would be their last meal. >> after 10:30, got back to cielo. greta: and a sinister plan was being hatched by charles manson at spahn ranch. >> he told his family we can ignite "helter skelter," start this war between blacks and whites. by committing the murders ourselves. >> manson told watson to go up to the house at 10,050 cielo drive and kill everybody there. greta: why that house? >> the house was a symbol. it didn't matter who lived there. it was striking out at something that melcher had been attached to. >> he knew that melcher was no longer living there. greta: manson remained behind as watson, crenwinkle drove off in a ranch hand's car. joining them on their mission of murder was a recent addition to the family, 19-year-old linda kasabian. >> linda kasabian was a runaway. she had left home and was traveling around the country. and she wound up at the manson spahn ranch. she, crenwinkle, susan

chest, killing him.house on the >> greta: in the house on the hill, nobody had heard a thingg >> abigaileading a book and voitek napped out on the couch in the living room. sharon was in the bedroomco talking.e house. >> the three of them continued on to the house.wn >> they went into the house and rounded up sharon and jay,d ha abigail followinger from her bedroom and when tex watson entered the living room, voite? was asleep and he said who are you. watson said i'm the devil. >> when tried to stop tex watson fromman handling a pregnant sharon he shot him. voitek managed to get to therc door as susan slashed his legs with a knife and tex hit him with the gun. >> i started walking towards the house and the next thing i know a man comes stumbling outt of the house covered in blood e nd falls down and tex starts stabbing him. --> do you remember what started going through your mind? >> i remember looking up towaro the sky and realizeing that charlie was definitely the devil. >> greta: having been stabbed y 51 sometimes, bludgeoned with a time gun 13 times and shot twice.wie >> and in the b

was she ever able to see abigail? >> no, sir.rt place now, looking down on her, but no, she never even knew. >> i know you have fell very strongly all along that it was very important to share your story with folks, especially so pregnant women would know that this is something they really need to be conscious of. what -- >> and i will -- sorry. >> no. go ahead, kenny. >> i will continue to be an advocate for this because no one should go through this ever. >> how is abigail doing? >> she's a rock. she's doing very well. >> yeah. do you have any sense that you'll be able to get her home from the hospital soon? >> they're telling me 40 weeks, full term. >> yeah. >> but she is doing well so, there is a chance, i guess. they can't tell me that, but she's doing that good. >> that's great. you, i think, have been a courageous person to come and continue to fill us in on what has transpired in this tragedy in your family's experience with this virus, and you just need to know how much all of us here are so sorry for your loss. >> i app

. >> abigail called police after not seeing her neighbors for two days. >> i went over there to at the point them on tuesday of this week to help her pack, i packed her pantry and everything. >> reporter: but after the moving in and out and the packing of boxes cam to an abrupt stop. >> nothing, and the dogs came to the door barking. thursday, nothing yesterday all day. >> reporter: the home is the scene of an apparent murder sure side. they both appeared to have died of gunshot wounds. >> it's sad. everything haened. it brought them down once they took the house from them. >> reporter: abigail said they told her they refinanced the home, and then they were surprised the house had been sold and they had to get out. >> ty had half the house packed up and it was too much on her, too much stress that brought her down. it's just really sad. >> reporter: while records show this house was bought early in the summer, we have no confirmation of what was going on with this family financial situation. we are waiting for the authorities to release the names officially of the couple. back to you i

the baby's name is abigail and will never know her mother. after weeks in the hospital, katie flight died on tuesday from respiratory distress syndrome. a complication of the punz h1n1 -- of the h1n1 virus. >> reporter: baby abigail has a 2-year-old brother jacob. she will stay in the hospital for weeks before going home to a father who is now left to raise both children alone. >> i will continue to be an advocate for this, because no one should go through this ever. we need to be more cautious with this virus. they still don't have all the answers. >> reporter: i'm gigi barnett. wjz eyewitness news. >> katie's husband says doctors would have caught the h1n1 virus if they used a more expensive test. she died without ever seeing her newborn daughter. >>> he died 18 years ago, while fighting in the gulf war. and today, his remains are finally back on u.s. soil. sally has more details on the homecoming. >> reporter: michael spot spiker's plane was shot down on the first night in the gulf war in 1991. just over an hour ago, his remains were retur

the baby's name is abigail and will never know her mother. because after weeks in the hospital, katie flyte died on tuesday, from respiratory distress syndrome, a complication. >> and her spirit has been lifting, slowly to give us time to grieve. and there's no tears where she's at. >> reporter: baby abigail has a 2-year-old brother, jacob. she will stay in the hospital for weeks before going home to a father, who is now left to raise both children alone. >> i will continue to be an advocate for this. because no one should go through this ever. we need to be more cautious with this virus. they still don't have all of the answers. >> reporter: i'm gigi barnett, wjz eyewitness news. >> and katie flyte was in a coma during the birth of her daughter and never knew she had given birth. >>> new information in the accident that killed a howard county landscaper. >> both police and the maryland occupational are investigating this incident. sky eye chopper 13 was over the scene at the 9,000 block of junction drive. investigators believe 27-year- old s

probably heard about to her husband, to, to spoil the ending turns out to be john adams and she's abigail adams, there are these letters to her husband, saying we talk about a nation offee quas and democracy and how come the women don't get to go to school, and i got curious about it, i wanted to know why she wanted to go to school and what she wanted to get out of it and she said she wanted literature with a capital "l" and i thought, i kind of get that, why did she want literature? what was that going to do for her? and she said, her sister actually wrote, saying there was nothing more tedious than this little town in massachusetts and the only thing noteworthy about it was that nothing ever happened and that literature was a way to learn about the world, and to learn about sophistication, and was a salvation, so that was part of it, i think. and she wanted -- didn't want to change the school system. she watch henry ford who wanted to go out and make something. she wanted to do exactly what john nas had done and wanted an education and then you look at how she raised her daughters and w

. >> reporter: abigail said earlier this summer the husband ask wife told her they refinanced the home and had been buying for 17 years. but then were surprisingly notified the house had been sold and had to get out. today sheriff's deputies were expected to evict the couple if they weren't out already. >> they had the house packed up. i guess it was just, you know, too much on her that brought her down. it is really sad. >> reporter: public records show that this home was bought in early summer. we don't have any official confirmation explaining how this couple lost their home. in dumfries, tracee wilkins, news4. >>> u.s. and british officials are condemning the hero's welcome given last night to a libyan man, man convicted in the lockerbie bombing, abdel basset ali al megrahi. step off the plane wearing a dark suit. he was greeted and embraced by the son of libyan leader gadhafi. megrahi is said to be suffering from terminal prostate cancer. hundreds of people were waiting for hours at the airport for the convicted bomber and cheered wildly at his arrival. the exuberant homecoming ap

it was a huge book and it's got some deep issues and basically abigail breslin who was on our show. the basis -- the thing of the mie is she was born, basically so that you could use parts of her to -- >> i have a daughter -- my rst daughter has leukemia and we need to have a genetic match for her to be able to give her platelets and for her to be able to survive. >> jimm right. >> so we don't have the genetic match so wcreate one and it goes through you ow, 12 years of this child's life until she kind of says, "it's enough i don't want to give my kidney to mysister now." and of courseif she doesn't give her the kidney she's going to die. it's realllight hearted. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: you do have some very funny parts in the movie. >> there's a lot of humor. >> jimmy: and just go for it in this movie. >> thank you. >> jimmy: i think you're so good in this movie. >> thank you, jimmy. nick cassates' our director who's a 6'7" tattooed dude, like, he's, like, the toughest guy you've ever seen. he's like really, really tough you know? >> jimmy: this is e guy who did "the notebook." >> h

. >> reporter: abigail robertson thought something was wrong when she stopped by the home of her neighbors and the only greeting was their two dogs. she checked on them and so she called police. >> so the fire and police department opened the door and went upstairs and found them in the bed. >> the police say they died of gunshot wounds. investigators aren't saying who pulled the trigger. the news is sending shock waves through the close-knit community who knew about their financial troubles. >> it hit home for them. >> reporter: the couple hosted several different cookouts telling friends they were moving to live with relatives in colorado just weeks after his mother's funeral. >> after they came back from colorado from burying his mom, they came home and there was someone in their yard and they said they were the new owners. >> according to the neighbors, the male victim put the trash out on tuesday and that was the last anybody heard from him until tuesday night when he asked another neighbor to pray for him. >> and we said what's the matter, are you all right and he said i'm not all ri

as a matter of fact, abigail is the real bible cover in this deal and you can see that on hbo.naged to exclude what the -- to the skies relatively. >> mike: how come we haven't been told the real truth about our founders to cute. >> eagle back to a textbook printed before 1920 as is common stuff. from 1930-1950 went silent. from 1950-1970 we want to be there not that religious and in the 90s we cannot discuss for all diagnostic ideas. go back and get a totally different picture. >> mike: it comes down to the original documents in their own words. it is not what people said these guys said, that's what i actually said. >> atari we like putting it up on the website. you can see the actual documents. the library congress brought all these religious doctrines out to show the founders and what they believed and did so there's plenty of evidence out there it's just that today would have been cut away from our own roots, heritage and history. >> mike: david barton has stacks of things we never got anywhere near what he brought much less what he has. while builders.com is the website.

all these women knew that even though abigail adams was not the best at it. they understood the dual nature of that and that is what is gone. >> can you speak to what drew you back in time and to your women that you researched and wrote about so wonderful. >> we want 21st century at the time. >> the question is, what was the draw for each of the panelists to go back and research these women and the historians -- and the historians of their work. >> -- and be historians of their work. >> first of all, i think i am doing penance. when i was doing my graduate work, i did not know what the little big top was. i got into serious debates with my fellow graduate students about civil war history. i was remembering a very passionate debate of looking at documents. i remember this violent argument over it. 20 years later, going to lincoln dinners, i would pay about abraham lincoln and the contribution. i felt that the cartoonish image needed correction, but i will say that my next book will be a short portion of the emancipation proclamation. i thought it was time to t