alexander graham bell. >> all that mattered 129 years ago today, alexander graham bell recorded his owne sound, but no one could hear it for well over a century. in 2011 researchers were finally able to play it back using a digital scanner. >> incredible. absolutely incredible. >> what i want to say to alexander graham bell is, thank you, sir. thank you, sir. >> more coming 0 up right after this. >>> i'm john blackstone in missoula. most planes are like this one, some 60 years old. we'll look at the challenging job of keeping these aging planes flying coming up on morning fire forced >>> it's 8:25. time for some news headlines, an early morning fire forced nine people including seven children out of their san jose home. fire officials say it started in the garage at the townhome on moorings court around 3:30 a.m.. no one was hurt. >>> raymond shrimp boy choi is expected to plead not guilty in court today. he's accused of money laundering in the case that also ensnared state senator leland yee. his lawyer alleges entrapment by the fbi. >>> open late for tax deadline day -- ather... in ju

alexander graham bell's original patents expired around the turn of the century. two or three telephone systems, so callers needed two or three phones to be sure of being able to call around town. competition meant lower prices and lower profits. and bell fought back. it slashed rates to undercut some competitors and bought others out. others were cut off from equipment or from the long distance network, which bell controlled and which only bell could afford. wounded independents began asking the government to take bell to cot der titrt laws the way it had standard oil. then in 1914 at&t president theodore vail sent at&t vice president nathan c. kingsbury to washington. he set up a deal that would create what vail called "a natural monopoly." we asked picard wagner of at&t what was in the kingsbury commitment. the key part of it, of course, was the commitment to refrain from buying up any more independent telephone companies, that it would provide long distance connections to the independent, which means the non-bell companies, which then existed. mr. wagner, what