as abigail most definitely was, too.ppy to turn over the mic to our moderator, mary richardson. now, john and abigail never tuned in to the evening news on channel 5. but had they done so, i'm sure they would have applauded such an intelligent and eloquent commentator, enlightening the public about the day's events. mary? [applause] >> john adams, a 24-year-old lawyer, saw abigail smith for the first time in the summer of 1759. he was unimpressed. not candid was the overall assess independent his diary. what changed between them and when we don't really know, but by the time of their first letter, something certainly had. >> braintree, october 4th, 1762. miss adorable. by the same token that the bearer sat up with you last night, i hereby order you to give him as many kisses and as many hours of your company after 9:00 as he shall please to demand and charge them to my account. i presume i have good right to draw upon you for the kisses as i have given two or three million at least. when one has been received. and of con

as abigail most definitely was, too.ppy to turn over the mic to our moderator, mary richardson. now, john and abigail never tuned in to the evening news on channel 5. but had they done so, i'm sure they would have applauded such an intelligent and eloquent commentator, enlightening the public about the day's events. mary? [applause] >> john adams, a 24-year-old lawyer, saw abigail smith for the first time in the summer of 1759. he was unimpressed. not candid was the overall assess independent his diary. what changed between them and when we don't really know, but by the time of their first letter, something certainly had. >> braintree, october 4th, 1762. miss adorable. by the same token that the bearer sat up with you last night, i hereby order you to give him as many kisses and as many hours of your company after 9:00 as he shall please to demand and charge them to my account. i presume i have good right to draw upon you for the kisses as i have given two or three million at least. when one has been received. and of con

abigail, gene, we'll be watching those numbers. we hope to talk with you again, and get your handicapping on that quarter. thanks so much. bill, over to you. >> coming up in the last 30 minutes of trading here, the dow still lower at this hour. however, nasdaq trying to ring positive. strong january for the markets. looks to set on a down note. when we come back, our market experts will tell you how you should be investing heading into the month of february. plus we've got the names of four stocks that have been outperforming this market. they have no debt and tons of cash. we'll show you why these stocks may still be cheap at these levels. and as we head to the break, here's how the dow heat map is shaping up right now. >>> welcome back. bob pisani down on the floor of the new york stock exchange. what a great start to the year. look at the numbers here. the nasdaq up over 7%. you can thank apple for a good part of that. but even the s&p 500, one of the best januarys in over ten years. terrific numbers. now, the problem is, the ec

abigail left washington in mid february. john wait until the morning of thomas jefferson's and on terrorist to leave the inauguration on march 4th. the letters from another were written from the trip north to the last she monitored his political decision. >> the president's house, washington d.c.. november 2nd come 1800. my dearest friend. we arrived here last night or rather yesterday at 1:00 and here we dined and slept. the building is to be inevitable and now we wish for your company could i shall say nothing of public affairs. i am very glad you can center to come on. it is proper that you and i should retire together and not one before the other. before the end my letter, i pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall inhabit it. may none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. washington, february 16th, 1801. my friend, but the election will be decided this day in favor of mr. jefferson as it is given out by good authority. the burden upon me nominating judges and councils and

and probably less than that of abigail's. now, if it's somebody as i was just saying who's a secondary character, almost certainly those people haven't been published at all. and my real love is to write about people who weren't big names in their day or weren't big names in history today. to work with the people who worked on the panama canal. to write about them. to get inside their lives, their experience. to work with not just oliver wendell holmes because he subsequently became well-known when he was a medical student in paris, but all the other young medical students. i could have written an entire book -- a major book just on the medical students who went to paris in just the 1830s. so rich is that material. and so consequential was what they learned of history and development of medicine in our country. it's like working on a detective case. the more you get onto it, the more you can't get off of it and that's what's so exciting about it. and it should never be seen as some very difficult highly complicated profession

and abigail doolittle, thank you for coming in to see us. michelle, back to you. >> the dow jones industrial average is lower by 47 points. nasdaq higher by 16. the s&p is flat, with about 32 minutes before the closing bell. should you take profits right here or is the pullback an opportunity to buy back into the market? we've got two experts to weigh in next. plus, we're going to get the options action trade on how to cash in on any further upside in the price of gold. first, though, here's how the major commodities are trading. especially in the discussions about oil. >>> welcome back to the "closing bell." i'm mary thompson at the new york stock exchange. the dow is down 45, and the nasdaq is slightly higher. let's check and see where gold finished out the trading session, at a seven-week high today. helped earlier in the week by the fed's forecast for continued low interest rates through the end of 2014. that sends investors into the precious metals seeking a safe haven that could have a little added return. another story to the low inte

. >> junior girl scouts like abigail learn what to do with their money. >> save it and donate it. >> the cadet troop, it's about mortgages, property taxes and careers. master it and nab the financing my dream bad. >> let's hold up our dream job. go ahead, gabby. >> lawyer. >> 12-year-old gabby is exploring whether she can explore her dream home. >> if you take your $2.35 million house that you want and you put 20% down, that means you're going for a $2 million loan. >> a real estate broker helps this cadet realize -- i really couldn't afford it. it was a bit too much money. >> it's so important because, you know, the largest purchase they're ever going to make is going to be their home. and, you know, to learn that at a very young age, you really need to save your money to purchase that dream home is so important. >> of course, if you've ever bought a box of could happen cookies from an aggressive entrepreneur in a green or brown sash, it's pretty clear these girls know mow. ask girl scouts ceo anna chavez. >> there are stereotypes of girls and money, but girls have been handling mon

abigail, good to see you again. >> thanks, judge, good to see you again.tands out is a sideways trend, roughly about 1120 to 1350. it was stopped out by very strong multi-year resistance, right around 1335. what makes this sideways trend so vicious, when it seems we're about to break above or below it, it rips us in the other direction. that may be what's happening right now, but we would need technical confirmation. that would come on a close below 729 and a close between 1250. that would actually confirm a bearish rise that's been building for some time now. that target down to the bottom of the sideways chart. we're kind of seeing fitting with this sideways trading, but on the other hand we have a positive development that appears on the cusp of golden cross, the 50-day moving average might rise above the 200-day moving average. suspicious suggests the s&p may very well try to again take out 1335 and then 1347 at which point, who knows, maybe it will break above this long-term sideways trend. >> if it were to go down, what would lead us there? you're se

i mean, abigail writes john march 31, 1776, remember the ladies letter, the famous letter. so it is clear that consciousness of women, of educated women at least, is -- they are aware of the fact that the very argument is being made by the americans against the british against power apply to the family. they apply to gender issues. it is not -- that's not something that they are oblivious to. it is very clear that a lot of people think that, and adams gets these letters when he is head of war and ordinance. who is this guy heading the continental army. this guy owns over 300 slaves. actually at that time, he owns like a hundred slaves. and this is wrong. you can get illiterate letters probably written by freed slaves, calling attention to the incombatbility between slavery and the values on which the revolution is based. everybody recognizes that. nobody says slavery is okay. >> that's right. there was a later generation. >> that's the later generation. that's the calhoun generation. >> right. >> so the question is, once you know what the revolutionary agenda is, do you att

i'm going to let hadley take care of madison and i'm going to write another book, first family, abigail and john.

i mean abigail writes john, march 31, 1776, remember the ladies letter, a famous letter. it's clear that consideraticien of educated women is -- they're aware of the fact that the very arguments being made about it americans against the british against arbitrary power apply to the family. they apply to jenld gender issu. that's not something that air oblivious to. it's clear that a lot of people think -- and adams gets the letters when he's had the board of ordinance. who is this guy heading the continental army? this guy owns over 300 slaves. actually, at that time he owns like 100 slaves. this is wrong. can you get illiterate letters probably written by freed slaves, you know, calling attention to the incompatability between slavery and the values on which the revolution is based. nobody says slavery is okay. >> that's right. that was a later generation. >> i believe that was the right decision. that's why we're federalists. the one issue that i'm undecided about is slavery itself. >> okay. let's talk a little bit about that. when we had our alexander hamilton show, we

i'm going write another book called "first family, abigail and john." one minute. one more question we're told. is there one? >> yes, there's one. yes. one

yesterday. 3 laura and abigail richardson told me the 16 year old wanted to move in with them but iten during his hearing to not talk with anyone unless his attorney was present.the judge denied bail citing a flight risk and danger to the community.there was also talk about the weapon and again the judge reminded the teen to keep quiet.a preliminary hearing is set for the 17th of this month. family tells me they hope richardson's defense involves an insanity plea.jl fox 45 news at ten. carroll county authorities need your help to find the suspect who vandalized two wessminnter schools on christmas day. we just got these surveillance pictures into our newsroom. they show the man who broke into the william winchester elementary school by throwing a brick through a window. deptuies think the same man shattered two windows at west middle school next door. nothing was stolen.but the vandal caused about 12-hundred dollars in damage.anyone with information should call the carroll county sheriff's office. customs agents say they've made a large bust of heroin at dulles airport in virginia...

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. >> abigail, calm down. >> you know, i'm very strong on animal cruelty.ctly to jail. i don't give them a ticket. i don't care their occupation. you know the sad part of it? the animals are doing more time behind bars than the people that abuse the animals. i will never euthanize any animal in this jail. so, therefore, i have one dog that's been behind bars for seven years. that's queenie. here we have a dog that's a victim, can't find anyone to adopt that dog. but i'm not going to euthanize her. she may do 20 years behind bars. she will not be euthanized. come on. i can grab this -- without getting my hand bit off? is this going to bite my hand? sit. how come the dog doesn't --? >> queenie! >> after seven years in jail, you can't train the dog? she's got to learn some lessons. stop talking back at the sheriff. you know, even the inmates don't talk back to me. now i've got the dog talking back, right? right, queenie? >>> coming up, the judge hands down a sentence in michelle lacy's case. >> my baby cried and said it wasn't fair. >> and maricopa's most cont

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junior girl scouts like abigail learn what to do with their money. >> you save it, spend it, donate it>> reporter: in the cadet troop it's about mortgages, property taxes and careers. master it and nab the financing my dreams badge. >> let's hold up our dream job. go ahead, gabby. slow us your dream job. lawyer. >> reporter: 12-year-old gabby is exploring whether she can afford her dream home. >> you take your $2.5 million house you want and put 20% down, that means you're going for a $2 million loan. >> reporter: a real estate broker helps this cadet realize. >> i really couldn't afford it. it was too much money. >> it's important. the largest purchase they are ever going to make is going to be their home. to learn that at a very young age you really need to save your money to purchase that dream home is so important. >> of course, if you've ever bought a box of cookies from an aggressive entrepreneur in a green or brown sash, it's pretty clear these girls know money. ask girl scouts ceo. >> there are stereotypes of women and money. money have been handling money -- >> reporter: consi

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. >> reporter: off camera, abigail says her brother is a good kid. and neighbors say they believe richardson is driven to the edge of a long-time conflict between father and son. they say the victim often had fatal fits of rage. >> no one is talking about the fact that it could have been prevented if something was done about all like the calls to police and whatnot beforehand. >> reporter: sheriff's offices report that officers responded to the house a dozen times. but police say none of the calls were for domestic violence. twice, richardson was reported missing. in december, he ran away for five days. >> he had an opportunity at the time to speak with the deputy and explain why he had left the home, and what he had explained once he left the home because he had been in trouble earlier in the day with law enforcement. >> reporter: in fact, there are two juvenile cases pending against richardson for breaking an entering and drug possession. and now she's charged as an adult with murder. >> reporter: and a preliminary trial for richardson is scheduled

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