here in bedford, indiana, gm's cluttered garage includes this abandoned pentecostal church.it's among more than 50 properties that gm plans to ditch in this town alone. when toxic waste leaked here, gm had to buy entire blocks of homes. they've since been cleaned up. how difficult is it going to be for gm to sell these properties? >> well, with more properties coming on the market when we already have an overabundance of homes for sale, it's going to be a little difficult. >> reporter: the attic is stuffed with olds and ends. looking for a used crash test sled? how about an old robot? a shut-down factory or two. hardly a gold mine for gm's creditors. >> these assets are not going to produce a lot of money because they're not the good assets. they're not the most valuable assets. >> reporter: cleaning out the attic could take many years, but gm boasts of bargains galore at motorsly wick decision economy, including one slightly contaminated golf course. chris bury, abc news, bedford, indiana. >> and you can take a look at all of the items up for sale by going to our "world new

but walter and i and, oh, three or four other reporters would get on the train and go out to bedford,ord was the town in england that had five or six air force bases around it, and we would go and then we would split up and we'd each go to a base that we liked, and we'd write our stories. and then we'd go back to the headquarters of the air force, and they had it set up so that we could write and send our stories from there. and that's when i got to know walter cronkite, got to know him well. you get to know someone pretty well in a war. i just -- i just feel so terrible about walter's death that i can hardly say anything. he's been as much a good friend over the years. please excuse me. thank you. >> pardon me. it's hard to follow an act like cronkite has been so much about him the last week, don't know what else there is to say about him. i would like to point out a couple of things. he had this reputation for being cool and calm and collected no matter what the circumstances, no matter what the occasion. but that doesn't do him any justice. he was really ferocious at times, and i'm

here in bedford, indiana, gm's cluttered garage includes this abandoned pent costal church.s among more than 50 properties the old gm plans to ditch in this small town alone. after toxic waste leaked from its plant here, gm had to buy entire blocks of homes. they've since been cleaned up. how difficult is it going to be for gm to sell these properties? >> well, with more properties coming on the market when we already have an overabundance of homes for sale, it's going to be a little difficult. >> reporter: the attic is stuffed with odds and ends, looking for a used crash test sled? how about an old robot? a shot down factory or two. hardly a gold mine for gm's creditors. >> these assets are not going to produce a lot of money because they're not the good assets. they're not the most valuable assets of general motors. >> reporter: cleaning out the attic could take many years but gm boasts of bargains galore at motors liquidation company, including one slightly contaminated golf course. chris bury, abc news, bedford, indiana. >> i guess gm will be clear of all those burdensom

fresh of to save money he reuses that ice and now spends $1,000 a year less at crystal ice in new bedfordmass. this ice house mostly sells to fishing boats. $56 a ton. his business is melting. so manager rob hicks had to let four guys go. >> every day we come in, it's like when are we going to get busy. when are we going to get busy. >> reporter: the family owned ice house that also sells in warwick, rhode island to louis manzoni. he turns a block of ice into a piece of art. but his ice sculpture business has gone cold. fewer weddings and corporate functions. >> people have the money, but they're more cautious, they don't know how bad tomorrow or next week is going to get. >> reporter: he buys half the blocks of ice he did a year ago. and works harder and longer for less. but like so many people in this recession, all he can do is chip away. mark strassman, cbs news, nantucket, massachusetts. >> couric: and coming up next, save the shark? an unlikely campaign to keep the sea safe for one of out most threatened creatures. and i'm joni. we've been best friends since we were two. we've alway

>> i live in bedford-stuyvesant. i cannot allow for a walk. a lot of communities need parts and farmers' markets. if you look at urban gardening programs in cities like columbus -- stuart: you have a democratic congressman. so therefore this money can flow through congress to your congressman, who will vote for this. this will be sold to us. shovel-ready? we have heard that with stimulus. >> we are enabling communities to build more healthy. stuart: can we just not accept that this really is a stretch? >> this is incentivizing people to live healthier lives. i like communities with parks and street lights. stuart: you got it. just by your congressman. i am sure they will pay. you got last word. stuart: to arizona. a press conference at the swank resort in phoenix. guess who is paying the tab? we are in phoenix with the story. >> after that aig debacle, i apologize -- the barrage of criticism they received -- there is a call for corporate competence. so you ask me why my outside the golf course, with this lounge, immaculate grounds. is book by

trip through mississippi, either stole the more burned them and went to meet with general nathan bedford forest. the problem was, on the way back up out of their, their was no way that general grant could inform general sherman of this crisis so general sherman proceeded down the river thinking general grant was going to meet up with him when in fact what general sherman met up with when he got to vicksburg, the north end of that win sneaking through the backdoor, was of the confederates who had been released by general grant's departure, and general sherman's people got slow. it was unfortunate for general chairman but he was mad about it and he said the attack was repulsed and it was my fault. that is what he wrote in his report. grant has a problem. not the least of which, general mcclaren who by now had arrived in memphis looking for his army and got the same reaction as abroad dumped at the altar on her wedding day, he raised an army that went down the river and got beat. he decided to the troublemaker and he was a troublemaker until grant had to fire him. but grant's problem is he

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i mean, the other day, i lived in williamsburg, and on bedford avenue, there was, like, a hot dog eatinghing happening on the street. >> jimmy: it was probably a shared experience. >> yeah, people have fun here. >> jimmy: yeah, people, they do it up all the time. >> my shared experience, i was going to get hot dogs out. >> jimmy: i figure people already got done right now. we can do it next time. we have to do it next time. >> yeah, it's really good. >> jimmy: you find it different, much different than england? >> there's more rules here. everybody is quite strict. you have to give i.d. to every bar, even if you have gray hair falling out, you're nearly dying of a heart attack, they're like, "hang on, we need to see your i.d." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: "i can't let you in. yes." >> she's obviously 85. so that's weird. and i went to see beyonce at the madison square garden thing. i tried to buy my friends a knicks cup and they wouldn't let me get it without beer. it was all very strange. >> jimmy: what, it's like a souvenir cup? >> yeah. >> jimmy: and they wanted you to buy a beer with it? >

and then left and went up and met with general nathan bedford forest and that put general grant out ofusiness. the problem was because on his way back up out of there to meet up with him, he cut telegraph lines, there was no way general grant could inform general sherman of this crisis. and so general sherman proceeded down the river thinking that general grant was going to meet up with him when, in fact, what general sherman met up with when he got to vicksburg to the north end of it, he intended to kind of sneak in the back door was all the confederates who had been released by general grant's departure. and general sherman's people got slaughtered and it was unfortunate to general sherman but he was mad about it and then he said he attacked chickasaw bluffs and it was my fault is what he said. it's what he report. well, grant has then got a problem. not the least of which is general mcclernan had been looking for his army and was like the same reaction as a bride left at the altar on her wedding day, meaning he raised this huge army going down the river who had gotten beat. general

considered handsome, beautiful, what one admire called majestic in his wrath, and when he moved to new bedford and he joins as abolition societies. in his first vacation he goes to nantucket for this large abolition convention, space in front of the largest crowd of whites he has ever spoken to before and essentially is discovered by william lloyd garrison who hires him on the spot to become a paid a lecturer for the american antislavery society, traveling all over the north in the midwest converting audiences to the cause of abolition. douglass eventually moved to rochester, new york concerns his own newspaper. he was the 19th century longest running black newspaper man in the country and he first mentions lincoln in his newspaper in 1847 and that appears as kind of a rose gallery of those congressmen, lincoln was a freshman congressman and house from illinois, lincoln appears on the list of other proslavery southerners who oppose a bill to abolish slavery in the district of columbia. in the douglass mentions lincoln's name along with people like alexander stephens, the future vice president

found it remarkable that nobody mentioned the 14th amendment or the true terrorist movement formed by bedfordr the civil war. and the growth of the klu klux klan. now, the 14th amendment said even blacks had the right to keep firearms. like the rest of us. now, that never went away. like here in connecticut, there's something in our laws which say you have to be a suitable person to have a pistol permit. well, everybody knows republicans are not suitable to a democrat and a democrat is not suitable to a republican. and that that wording was put in there as the tail end of the jim crow laws. it's got to go. there are other sayings which i think you could brought up which is apropo. there used to be the soap box, the ballot box and the cartridge box to protect our freedoms. that's gone. the other things that people forget is i could have bought a gun via mail, email, or mail at the time by sending in a box or two and having a gun sent to me through the u.s. mail without any check. that was a right we used to have. we've done away with it. the other thing is that during the first world war and s

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host: our first call comes from bedford, texas on the line for democrats.er: scott, please tell me what you mean when you say that consumers will have less choice, or will have less opportunity if these changes and restrictions are put into place. explain, directly how we as consumers will have less choice and be less served by these restrictions. because if i may say so, when i hear that the people who are fighting the administration so hard are the people who just say no -- that is what i am hearing from you. unfortunately, you just aren't talking, but i am hoping that all through your presentation that all we hear is not just no, no, no. we need it our financial system overhaul. there needs to be no debate about that. guest: first of all, we are for reform and for closing predatory gaps in modernizing the system to prevent this kind of crisis happening again and we are obviously for consumer protection. what i mean it is that we fear that consumers will have it your trusses is that the agency is charged with creating plain vanilla products. there will ha