in the arts, adam johnson won the fiction prize for "the orphan master's son." and the poetry prize went to sharon olds for "stag's leap." e'll have an encore presentation of a profile of sharon olds, later in the program. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown: back to the boston bombing story. president obama went to white house briefing room this evening to make a statement on developments. >> good afternoon, everybody. earlier today i was briefed by my homeland security team on the events in boston. we're continuing to monitor and respond to the situation as it unfolds. i've directed the full resources of t federal gernment to help state and local authorities protect our people, increase security around the united states as necessary, and investigate what happened. the american people will say a prayer for boston tonight, and michelle and i send our deepest thoughts and prayers to families of the victims in the wake of this senseless loss. we don't yet have all the answers. but we do know that multiple people have been wounded

johnson may be in danger of losing his job at jcpenney. adams alone. >> over failure to do due diligence. tracy: cot court order martha stewart to buy back her own stuff? >> yes. in this context, the court's authority to reshape and reframe the relationship between martha stewart and jcpenney is almost limitless. tracy: wow. >> the court's goal is to prevent waste, destruction of that property. adam: but martha stewart's claim she went to jcpenney to offer product not being offered at macy's. tracy: original. adam: what if the contract with macy's has that kind of little window opening allows them to sneak in. >> then the prediction that macy's will win will not come to pass and martha stewart will continue to sell a different product to her customers through jcpenney than she selling to her customers through macy's. all of these things are the types of things the judges have to decide. tracy: before we let you go --. adam: see what the courtroom looks like? it looks like a warehouse from macy's and jcpenney because the products are in there. t

but when i get to kennedy or johnson, then i've got to actually stop and think. >> jimmy: can you still do it? >> washington, adamsn, bush, clinton, bush, obama. [ applause ] >> jimmy: that's why you're fantastic. thanks very much for coming. watch "studio 42" and bob costas. and costas tonight returns to nbc sports in may. we'll be right back with music from gary allan. >> jimmy: this is their cd. it's called "set you free." here's the song "pieces" gary allan! ♪ ♪ i've been broken torn and scattered i've loved holy i've loved sin i was rolling on the wind it didn't matter i was so ♪ ♪ sure of who i didn't want to be every smile and every fear every laugh and every tear ♪ ♪ it was all me it was all me pieces of my heart pieces of my soul pieces that i'm gonna be i don't even know ♪ ♪ i gave a lot to lovers gave a lot to friends everything i took from them made me who i am pieces we've all ♪ ♪ been lied to we've all been liars nothing's perfect in this world everybody's been burned ♪ ♪ by the fire guess i'm learning that what breaks you makes you grow but i'm not hiding where ♪ ♪ i've been gonna let the light shin

the first six, seven presidents ll did have slaves other than the johnsons, other than john adams and john quincy adams. hey were the only two of the early presidents who didn't have slaves. and basically stopped with zachary taylor. think he was the last president that literally brought slaves to the white house with him. after that, they didn't. >> next, a question from tennessee, jonesboro. carol.r caller is hi, carol. caller: hello? >> you're on. caller: okay, thank you. yes. husband's mother marry martha patterson's daughter, which johnson'se been andrew grand daughter some years ago. jonesboro two specifically to talk to my time sayingw at the that she feels -- that her thankful thats so 34i husband's great -- great, grandfather had saved the johnson homestead and had given passage to the family to johnson family so they had wanted to go to the homestead they could have. general confederate that at one time was over the a. tennessee area, gerald jackso jackson. his grand daughter was my mother-in-law. >> thanks for that story. any more about that? granting safe passage or a ener

the first six, seven presidents all did have slaves other than the johnsons, other than john adams and john quincy adams. they were the only two of the early presidents who didn't have slaves. and basically stopped with zachary taylor. i think he was the last president that literally brought slaves to the white house with him. after that, they didn't. >> next, a question from tennessee, jonesboro. and our caller is carol. hi, carol. caller: hello? >> you're on. caller: okay, thank you. yes. my husband's mother marry martha patterson's daughter, which would have been andrew johnson's grand daughter some years ago. she claimed two jonesboro specifically to talk to my mother-in-law at the time saying that she feels?-- that her grandmother was so thankful that her husband's great -- great, great grandfather had saved the johnson homestead and had given safe passage to the family to the johnson family so they had wanted to go to the homestead during the war, they could have. he was a confederate general that at one time was over the east tennessee area, gerald a. jackson. his grand daughter

adam scott wins the first major. becomes the first australian to ever win the masters. gio gonzalez, nats trying to avoid the sweep. and gio, 1-0, atlanta. two on for chris johnson. he is going to take the pitch up the middle. and on top. 3-0. and simmons takes, a three-run shot. and lead it 7-0. and since becoming a nationals player. braves, the sweep. 9-0. and on the mound for the bird. yanks up -- 1-0. gardner, crushing this pitch to right field. and a o-run homer. gardner. and the shot there. and for the yankees. and top of the ninth. and dealing for the yanks. chris davis, goes down swinging. the weekend shutoff. the fifth of his career. yankees take the series. they win it. 3-0. coming up on sports final. the nationals player takes the blame for today's loss. hear what he had to say about it. d wade not resting against the bulls. show you how the die naming duo fared against chicago. and pro bowler, leaves for arizona. stops by the studio. and it is bittersweet. and carol maloney joins me on sports final. sportlook, every day we're using more and more energy. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia,

adam lashinsky. you are our apple experts, the best person to have in the seat right now looking at this because of course ron johnsono jcpenney and his success from apple. why do you think it didn't translate? >> the focus is quite appropriately on jcpenney, but this does a lott about apple and trying to emulate apple. i don't know exactly why he didn't succeed or what his lessons that app did or didn't teach him at jcpenney. came into this jobith a great deal of what could be called hubris. i am going to just try to change this over completely and take a moon shot. why? because that is what his mentor, steve jobs, did over and over at apple. what is has shown us if you are not steve jobs and this isn't apple, to be really difficult to follow that model. melissa: it has even become very hard for apple to do that. we were just talking about karel icon in who can be the next icahn, they said who can be the next steve jobs. do you think that person exists? >> now, that person absolutely doesn't exist. by the way, still don't blame ron johnson for giving it a shot at jcpenney. i personally think that is a helluva lot mo

this time adam jones getsing into a griffin prism griffin gave up four rufore the inwas over and the a's trailed 4-2. it was 7-3 in the 9th with one out. but jim johnson gets jed lowrie to bounce into the 6--doue play and the inning and game is over. the a's lose their fourth in a 7. >> 3 and their series wraps up tomorr afternoon. >>> nfl draft was wrapped up today as teams made their picks rounds 4 through 7. the 49ers had seven picks in the four rounds and first the niners took wide receiver quentin paton from louisiana tech. paton had 10receptions. 136 them for touchdowns and louisiana tech pass-happy offense is expected to compete could also be used a kick y and runner. three picks later they took south carolina running back marcus lattimore. it could be a while before lattore contributions in the field. he severely injured his knee. a year after he had surgery on his other knee frank gore ached tout mattlor after his surgery this year. in the 5th round the 49ers took another quinto quinton dial. and nick moody from from florida state and three 7-round picks, to sect a quarterback, b.j. daniels and carter bykowski and marcus coopers from rutgers.

adams to be both first lady and first mother. but she had things about her mother-in-law in it. there was a book about lady bird johnson. there were a few books, but most of all i loved the books they wrote about themself. >> have you studied al gore's mother or george w. bush's mother? >> yes, i certainly have, looking ahead. and they are -- the premise holds that they are both very strong women. george w. bush's wife laura says that he is just like his mother. they're both feist air, they're just like each other in that they say funny things. they used to fight when george w. of the just a boy because they were so alike. but he says at one point recently, he said she gave me a lot of love and advice, and i gave her white hair. pauline gore still alive at 87, still very interested in politics. interesting won in that she was the product of a tiny town in tennessee called cold corner, which almost sounds like fiction in itself. she was determined to go to law school, worked her way through law school at vanderbilt university, was the only woman to graduate in the class of 1936, and that was very early for women lawyers.

johnson. everyone has been waiting for that call. they brought back the predecessor, i don't know if people expected that. adamright? bring the old guy back at that was the problem to begin with. >> a couple reasons ullman has brought back. he has strong relationship with vendors. vendors are not betting on jcpenney. they're charging premium. they need to stablize that. he has to raise cash. in words of standard and poor's, the rating service says they have less than adequate liquidity. they will need money to get through this transition. there are things coming down the pike for them really troubling. listen, we have statement from oppenheimer equity. they put out a note on jcpenney's this morning. quote, we're concerned this change could further upend the company and further a spiral down for j. cp as you read further into the note, we believe near term risks for jcp are severe and turning more treacherous for the company. the company, their web page. look at this. they're still listing ron johnson as the ceo but that clearly is not it. look at board of directors, we reached out. i was calling jcpenney to co

adam: stocks are down and fear is up. we'll tell you what has investors worried. first take a look at some winners and losers on the s&p 500. >> the dow 30 is red right now. johnson, home depot, coke, and, of course, we're talking bowel -- about intel all day. your basic, a coke is what keeps the market going. on the floor of new york stock exchange, down 125 # points. >> that's right. the point is we were at 14560, down almost # 00 points, we came up off the lows, seen improvement to the point, but, still, plenty of red to speak of todaying inning dow component caterpillar. right now, caterpillar's down 1.5%, was down 2% earlier. downgraded, and so was deere and company, by the way, the companies that have the same, earth moving equipment, tractors, bulldozer, and the like, and obviously, the types of companies do well with the great economy. everybody's building and the economy's building. on the contrary, concerns about an economy that is slowing here and also abroad. it hurts big companies like caterpillar and it's on the heels of what we heard from the imf took in and curbed the numbers for this year and next as well. back to you. >> thank you, nicole. see y