it was introduced by a state rep named anne williams. introducing that marriage bill in illinois in november, anne williams broke some news. >> one of the greatest love stories i have ever heard played out right here under our beautiful dome. but it was a secret. why? because it happened over 20 years ago involved a state senator, the late penny sutterns and one of my dearest friends, a woman named terry muchler at the time, an a.p. reporter here at the capital. penny served at the senate from 1986 until her tragic and untimely death from breast cancer in 1998. for much of that time, there were no openly gay members. >> senator penny, barack obama's mentor in his first year in public office in the state senate in illinois, she only died in 1998. . she's not that long ago. but everyone in 1998, when she considered her marriage was a secret to everybody. and then the story eventually could be told. terry is a lawyer. she's a former journalist and -- >> thank you. it's a pleasure to be here. it. >> it feels like i'm talking about you in the

have to face substantial financial damages. >> cbs news legal analyst eboni williams here in new york, thank you. >> thank you, anne-marie. >>> more rallies and protests are scheduled around the country. demonstrators protested the missouri grand jury decision outside the white house last night. tensions were high in seattle as near highway land. bigad shaban reports on some of the demonstrations around the country. protesters marched through south central los angeles demanding justice. >> justice! >> reporter: thousands of people packed city streets from california monday night in passionate, though mostly peaceful protests. >> black lives matter! >> reporter: community activists have organized more than 100 rallies over the next few days in the u.s. and canada in response to the grand jury's decision. protesters here in l.a. are making their way through neighborhoods and started the march on martin luther king jr. boulevard. police officers helped block streets and traffic was backed up for miles. eric drew is a 30-year-old musician in los angeles and said brown's death and the grand jury's ruling have ignited ra

advertisininininin lou: well less than 24 hours until first polls close, joining us tonight, juan williams, republican poll ster. kelly ann conway, thank you, let's st-r start with white houe when asked about what message message this will send. >> it would not be wise to draw as broad a conclusion about the outcome of this election as you would from a national presidential election. simply by virtue of the map and the fact of the states where this contest is taking place, that said, this elect is important. lou: what was he trying to say? juan? >> i think is trying to play the expectations game, he was not doing it well. you see, on one han he said, you can't draw a large conclusion but he said this is very important election, it is important for his boss. because of the last two years of his boss' term. that implies legacy, president obama said as much. but on other hand, i think that he is not far off, played on red states but going to have a political impact on our country, no question. lou: what is the likelihood. that we'll see this wave elect that so many republicans have been talking about, that big a deal tomorro

william. charles county getting showers there as well. and anne arundel that's where the heavier rain is now. here's the timing. 8:00, most of the rain will be east of washington. still linger anything southern maryland, northern neck, eastern shore. after that it will track to the east. maybe even sun breaking out. the rest of the afternoon might get a few isolated showers. we'll have drying roads. stay ahead of the rain with the radar on your team 4 weather app on your smartphone. low to mid-50s most of the region. showers between now and 8:00. it should dry out a bit. during the afternoon, sun breaking out. a smaller chance of a shower. highs reaching mid-60s by early afternoon. overnight, blustery winds. down in the 40s. blustery chilly day on friday with highs mid-50s. good weather for raking leaves. a lighter wind. afternoon highs on sunday. upper 50s. milder into next week. good weather for the concert. a little chillier on wednesday. melissa looking at the wet roads and everything slowing down. >> slowing down a little earlier than we woul

she's dressed he everyone from robin williams to matt damon, to meryl streep. annth is considered one of top costume designers she prefers that you don't pay much attention to her or her work. what's the best thing someone could say about costumes that you've designed. >> it depends. if it's an audience member they just love the show. that's good for me. >> at 7:30 in the morning. >> actors like glenn close count on ross to create the perfect costume just look at the detail on this robe worn by the upper class country club type close plays in a new broadway production of edward albee's "a delicate balance." >> when you see the first outfit that he -- >> he seems a little bit goofy. >> my father dressed like that. >> what were you going for? >> well, a guy who is comfortable at 65 years old. probably. living where he does with his own club and own gang. and nobody's ever said those are goofy pants to him. he likes them. >> she's formidable. the conversations in the fitting room with ann, the first times the character has all come together. >> now you have quite a hi

williams, cbs news, jeddah, saudi arabia. >> that is the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. a great day. >>> and today, it is wednesday november 19th good morning, i'm's ukee washington. >>> i'm erika von tiehl. here are stories we are telling today that bitter blast continues in philadelphia a. folks are bunneling up against the cold, for yet another day and this time we could be a at record territory. >>> while we're dealing will with the cold, western new york is buried under feet, several feet of snow in an enormous lake effect snowstorm turns over the area. >>> farmer market rips through the area, thick smoke seen for miles. we will have the very latest on the investigation. >>> we now know where the philadelphia's next contact seen he will be, find out why some people will say the the live hotel and casino is a bad thing for their neighborhood. all

williams, cbs news, jeddah, saudi arabia. >> that is the "cbs morning news" for this wednesday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. a great day. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. >>> good morning, it's wednesday, november 19. i'm michelle griego. >> yeah, halfway through the workweek. hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it is nearly 4:30. and we have some weather news out of the gate. >> isn't that good? here we go. storm number one making its way onshore. we are seeing scattered showers outside around the bay area. if you haven't seen any, it's on the way. there's another one behind that. we'll talk about that coming up. >> and so far most roads that we're looking at in our traffic cameras are clear. you can see the bay bridge toll plaza still for the most part driving into san francisco. we have one accident on the skyway, there may be still some flares out by ninth but things look good coming into san francisco so far. we're hanging tight for later on. >> all right. thank you, elizabeth. >>> a settlement involving a popular bay area restaurant that's allegedly been stealing from employees for

williams. good morning. >> good morning. >> do we are any idea how the grand jury came to this decision? a >> certainly, anne-marie. one thing we know for sure, there were two people for sure. michael brown unfortunately is not with us. heavily they relied on the testimony of officer wilson as you said correctly you pointed out that he had thought it was a struggle for his life. and also the forensic evidence and also the medical testimony. there were a couple of medical examiners they heard from, including one from the state and the family of michael brown. >> forensic evidence. this is sort of a case like you said of one person's version and the words from a variety of conflicting eyewitnesses. beyond the word of officer wilson, what other pieces of evidence did the grand jury have to look at? >> certainly, they had had about 60 witnesses that they heard from over the course of these 25 separate days. and we heard eyewitness testimonwe know under the law that eyewitness is often conflicting. that is the most probative evidence they could consider. >> moving forward, we have a federal investigation, does that stil

that will make williams the fourth democratic candidate to declare for the election that's less than a year away. lynne ab ra hraham announced to she's in, too. lu annahn at temple university. lu ann? >> reporter: we're at the top of morgan hall on the temple university campus where our own nbc 10's jim rosenfield is moderating this panel of experts put together by the chamber of commerce. they are talking about what the future mayor will have to tackle but first, i can tell you he or she will have to beat a lot of other candidates. >> what i'm against selling wholesale, the entire public school system to the highest bidder. >> reporter: lynne abraham came out firing, saying the next mayor of philadelphia has to fight for fairness in school funding, open discussion on the proposed sale of pgw. >> there's a dysfunctional relationship between the mayor's office and city council. >> reporter: at 72 the former five-time district attorney says -- >> i've got lots of dreams, lots of energy, nobody's going to outrun me, outcampaign me, outtalk me, outthink me. >> she will not be the candidate of the established democratic party. >> reporter: a former repub

williams. that's just the short list of possible candidates. stay tuned. live in north philadelphia, lu ann nbc 10 news. >> thanks, lu ann. >>> four assist and the local high school football coaches will keep their teaching jobs despite a hazing scandal at their school. they were reinstated yesterday. the school board initially suspended the coaches last month. several football players are accused of hazing and sexually assaulting four teammates inside the locker room. the players will not be tried as adults. >>> a new jersey judge will decide if the words under god should be removed from the pledge of allegiance. the ruling will affect schools in the aberdeen district where a family filed a lawsuit there. now, the family claims the pledge discriminates against atheists. the school is trying to get the lawsuit dismissed. it argues students are not required to say the pledge and, therefore, are not treated differently. the hearing finished today. the judge said he'll make a decision soon. >>> a local casino union leader is compared to russian dictator joseph stalin. more than 1,000 workers a

anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> like i said, we may be guilty on this one. that's our broadcast on a wednesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams.course, we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> right now at 6:00, it wasn't everywhere but the misses where it did rain, as you can see, it came down pretty hard. the rain was to blame for a ten-car crash that clogged an east bay freeway for miles. thanks for being with us. i'm raj mathai. >> i'm jessica aguiraguirre. the showers are still lingering right now. the storm played favorites with the north bay getting the biggest soaking and san jose seeing almost nothing. if you didn't get rain, don't worry. new storms are brewing over the pacific and one is just hours away. we have team coverage tonight. jodi hernandez spent the day in marin talking with people who were caught off-guard. we begin with jeff ranieri tracking what's coming our way next. >> you can see storm system we're dealing with right now, then also that second storm system well offshore. the one that we're dealing with at the moment is still holding on. it's barely there. it's enough that i

william and fauquier. reagan national at 37. eastern suburbs, mid-30s in prince george's county. alexandria, arlington, up near annapolis and anne arundel, mid to upper 30s. wear a nice warm knit hat and your puffy coat. we will have cold temperatures with us. gloves is a good idea. as we will have it near freezing. morning drive, watch out. might be a few icy spots on roads. you'll kneeled the heat on getting back home. near 40 with a blustery wind. tomorrow morning, down to the during the the day on saturday, afternoon highs reaching the mid-40s. good weather for raking leaves on saturday with a lighter wind out of the northwest. sunday, good day for outdoor work as well. sunday afternoon, big game at fedex field. skins/buccaneers. kickoff at 1:00. should be in the upper 4. quite a bit of cloud whereness through the game. and one fan did enjoy a hardship in life made an interesting final request to the team via his obituary. he lived in mechanicsville. he was 52 years old when he died on sunday. he survived a house fire and lost a teenage son. but his family says he always kept laughing through it all. and his final request wi

ann favro, nbc bay area news. >> what an amazing story this is. we could talk about it for hours. our coverage of this epic touchdown continues in just about 15 minutes with brian williams on "nightly news." he'll take a look at the big mystery the mission could help solve. >>> let's get a check of the forecast now. we're finally getting some rain. here's jeff ranieri. >> couldn't be more excited in the weather department. our approaching storm system continues to get closer, as we mentioned earlier. it's finally starting to get its act together. over the past two hours we've seen cloud cover increase off the bay. any rain returns, even on a wide scan, are way off to the north and well offshore. eventually, the pattern is going to be changing. the most disruptive thing we have happening in the sky camera network is the cloud cover moving in. also a colder night, temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s. a beautiful shot from our weather underground camera here in belvedere. you can see the low clouds that extend from the north bay, way, way on back toward san francisco and down the peninsula as well. we've got the same scenario across the south bay from our mount hamil

anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> like i said, we may be guilty on this one. that's our broadcast on a wednesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams.e hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> kathy griffin officially taking over joan rivers' fashion police throne? >> now on "extra." "fashion police throne? >> now on "extra."" throne? >> now on "extra." >>> kathy griffin on replacing her idol joan rivers. >> i hope the show continues in the tradition of my dear departed friend. >> the major change they're reportedly making to the show. is one of the fashion cops out? >>> a fifth bill cosby accuser comes forward today, claiming the legend drugged her in a sickening sex attack. as nbc pulls the plug on cosby's new show, we uncover his lost stand-up about using aphrodisiacs. >> you put some in her drink. man, she -- >>> then our new one on one with rihanna. what's her big surprise? >> you never know. >>> plus, people's sexiest man alive chris hemsworth, gushing about his sexiest woman alive. >> my wife. >> mario and ryan, you both made it into the issue. congratulations. >> i'm proud to represent the old man se

anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> like i said, we may be guilty on this one. that's our broadcast on a wednesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams.pe to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> i'm not saying that what i did was wrong. >> it's the only time bill cosby addressed any allegations and only we've got it. i'm billy bush. who's the one woman to whom he offers an

and ann taylor and best buy and brooks brothers and williams sonoma and gnc. >> they're scrolling atmeals. >> that's right. >> not the medical care. >> that's right. look how great they're doing. >> making the ornaments here. haley, we met you earlier this week and you were singing for the coaches of "the voice." how do you feel about st. jude for helping you keep your voice? >> they always took into account how my vocal cords would react with the treatment, radiation and chemo and made sure at the end i would still be able to live my dream and sing. >> amazing. you do have the voice of an angel. devon, you were diagnosed with cancer just last christmas. now i know this christmas you might probably have a special wish. >> yeah. >> what is your wish? >> you have a special wish? >> i want to go to disney world. >> to disney world? yeah. all right. well we're going to work on that wish. >> somehow i think we could make that happen for you. >> yeah. >> fantastic. marlo, all the work you do, amazing. >> isn't it worth it? >> it really is. thanks to all who have been part of this week. it'

ann cahn is with the wolf camp in york, pennsylvania. we have four hours to go until the polls close. >> reporter: renae, he's hopeful. we are live at the william penn hotel in pittsburgh. the governor is counting on lower voter turnout from registered democrats. they outnumber the republicans bay million and typically don't head to the polls during the non-presidential elections. right now the governor is spending time with family, particularly his two twin grandchildren, 6-week-old elliott and 6-week-old theodore. nbc 10 in shaler allegheny county 20 miles north of pittsburgh where governor corbett and his wife susan cast their ballot. the governor lived in shaler and served as a supervisor here before becoming assistant d.a. in allegheny county. he says this race is all about one word, taxes. and he's confident heading into tonight. >> this is a turnout election. we know who our voters are and have been doing it from a social and media metrix. i think we'll get them out and win tonight. >> reporter: and if the governor wins, it will be in spite of double-digit deficits of the polls that you have read. in the last few months, i covered the ra

ann romney campaigned with him last night. and this is one to certainly watch. also this morning i've been digging into the cool vote and where they vote in northern virginia. i looks like prince william county typically has the lowest turnout. fairfax city has some of the highest turnout in northern virginia. we'll be watching to see if the trends continue. that's from the last two midterms. eun? >> tracie potts live on cap toil hill for us. thank you. >>> in just a few minutes the polls in west virginia will open. we are watching the u.s. senate race there. whoever wins will make history. republican congresswoman shelley moore capito is running against natalie tenant. either candidate will become the first woman elected to represent west virginia in the u.s. senate. moore-capito is leading in the polls to become the first republican senator from west virginia in 56 years. both are trying to pick up the seat from senator jay rockefeller retiring. the polls close at 7:30 tonight. >>> you also have a chance to get financial relief to military families in virginia. a constitutional amendment is on the ballot exempting thousands of military members who died in action from paying property

that first of all came william harlan hale, one of her young recruits on the magazine who was going to be one of those young promising writers of the early '30s who knew katherine anne porter and had written. c-span: and she was, like--what?--30 and he was, like, 22. >> guest: yes. clare in 1932 was 29, and he was about 22 years old. and he was the first arrival on crotch island. they all stayed four or five days. and then when he left, mark sullivan, the much older man who was more baruch's age, came to stay. i don't think that was necessarily a consummated relationship but certainly not for one to--trying on his part. and then came a--a young major in the army, a young man called cary skerritt. and then, of course, bill gaston was in and out, because it was his house that she'd rented. and when she got back to town, of course, it was bernard baruch and her mentor of vanity fair, donald freeman, who was the man who taught her everything about writing. c-span: now did you ever sit down with her and ask her about all this and--and how she kept it--how she k--kept the lines drawn and kept track of it all? >> guest: yes. she was actually much more interesting talking a