finally the young woman from new bedford was tapped. in her gown sashed with pink, her arms covered with long white gloves and ostrich feathers fluttering in her hands, hetty was introduced to his highnews, the prince of wales. and i am the princess of wales she replied. all of neptune's daughters are beautiful, you are proof of that, said the prince and he sailed her away on the dance floor. well it wasn't the prince who courted her. it was a fellow named edward green, who was over six feet tall and over 200 pound in weight and a self-made millionaire. he asked hetty to marry him and her father agreed to it on one condition. that edward sign a prenup that they would live on edward's money, and hetty's money would be hers to protect and to increase and to pass onto the next generation. shortly after that, her father died. he left her a million dollars. the rest of his estate, five million, remember, this was 1865. $5 million he put in a trust for her, which hurt her deeply. she expected to be able to control her own money. two weeks lat

she was born in new bedford, massachusetts, in 1834, to a prosperous family of whaling merchants, and in those days, whale oil fueled the houses and factories, not only here, but around the world, and whale parts were used for perfume, for paint, for corsets, for buggy whips, and just about everything in between. her family was extremely prosperous, and they lived then in what was the most prosperous town in america, and they seemed like they embodied, her family embodied, american values. they were hard working. they were rich. they were upstanding citizens. her father supported abraham lincoln later on, and they were spiritual. they were quakers. they had the new england values. the quaker values of thrift to the point of stinginess, particularly her father, and they believed in simplicity and plain living. to them, to the quakers, wealth was a sign of virtue, a sign of god's blessing, and so they were very blessed except that her father really wanted a son, and when his first child was born, it was a girl. it was hetty, and he became enraged, furious so much so that her mother took

chris bedford, the meteorologist. let's get you to the weather maps. the weather forecast, all important. i know a lot of the sailors will probably watch the forecast going, please, heat wave, leave. it was doing nothing to create wind across the bay. right now, chilly, 50s and 60s across the weather board. and what we'll find here as we head throughout the weekend is autumn air continuing to arrive with plenty of jacket weather in the forecast. if you're headed here for any of the large events, take that jacket again. here we go. fleet week, america's cup, san francisco giants, strictly hardly bluegrass festival. also 49ers, temperatures starting off in the 50s with the fog. by the noon hour, clouds will linger. low to mid 60s, at least over the next three days. we'll look at numbers topping out for the most part in the mid to upper 60s. on your seven-day forecast, we have that cooler weather inland, as well. 70s expected as we head throughout saturday and sunday. a far cry from that 107 in gilroy that we had earlier. monday and tuesday, a chance of s

romney is rehearsing in bedford, massachusetts. the president is preparing in williamsburg, virginia. this right here is a live picture from inside the debate hall, 22 days and counting, of course, until election day. >>> former pennsylvania senator arlen specter will be laid to rest tomorrow. he died yesterday of complications from non-hodgkins lymphoma after a long battle with cancer. he served five terms in the u.s. senate most as a moderate republican before switching parties at the end of his career. he was known as one of the true political wild cards. arlen specter was 82 years old. >>> after logging 123 million miles in space, the shuttle "endeavour" reached its final destination and arrived sunday at the california science center where it will soon go on display. it took more than two days to tow it from los angeles international airport over to that science center a. i 12-mile journey. >>> record-setting night for aaron rodders. he threw for a career six t.d. jakess as they handed the texans their first loss, that leaves

the cumberland valley, bedford county, pennsylvania, that is a picture i took from bedford springs resorteautiful. >> in the summer. and that's a wonderful historic property. and again, they have 14 covered bridges in that county which is such a neat way to view the foliage and they're all over 100 years old. >> that close to amish country? >> it is. >> a lot of great amish arts and crafts and things to do. >> absolutely. and ticking, festivals, you know, beautiful scenic drives. if the weather is bad the omni bedford springs has the oldest indoor pool in america. >> very nice. and, yeah. here is what i've come up with where we are right now. near peak color across much of central and western pennsylvania. there is good color as you mentioned along skyline drive and down toward the blue ridge parkway. not a lot of color in and around the metro areas and down toward the coastal plains just yet. obviously give it another week or so and the colors will start to come out. as we know it's not the cold that changes the leaves' color but the lack of sun light that changes the leaves from green t

he had come to a festival in new bedford. and she had several of her signs ripped down by scott brown people. and she says to scott brown, do you believe in free speech? >> and he said why? and she said 15 of my signs have been ripped down by your people. and scott brown said that has nothing to do with me? and she said yes, i think it does, because this is your campaign staff and maybe you ought to put out the word that this is not the way to behave. and scott brown said if you want to talk to the campaign, you talk to them. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." ♪ dose of politics from a fresh perspective. >>i'm a slutty bob hope. the troops love me. >>only on current tv. >> announcer: this is the "full court press," the "bill press show," live on your radio, and current tv. >> bill: how about it? 33 minutes after the hour now. this is the "bill press show." good to have you with us. we are coming to you from your nation's capitol and brought to you by the good federation of teachers. you can find out more about the g

let's bring in chris bedford. this is happening right now, it just started, right?hampionship race? >> yeah, that's right. the first fleet race of this series just started, and the boats are in the process of rounding the reach mark right now, and they'll be heading away from the yacht club down toward the city front and it's going to be pretty exciting viewing down there shortly. >> i think they're watching our broadcast. if you turn around, you can see our photographer is getting them -- they're taking off right now. with the boats out here, people are new to watching something like this, what should they be looking for? >> well, the -- they set up a pretty closed course, the boats can't stray too far off that racetrack. they have to turn as they're sailing to make sure they don't go out of bounds. you'll see the boat turning as they sale up wind or jiving we call it as they sail down wind. those tacks and jives are really important tactically as the boats travel, because you can get an advantage over your opponent. >> it looks like we're just beyond -- we're turn

[laughter] so i thought like how did he get there from new bedford to ancient cairo. this is a wonderful kind of story telling. >> it seems to me that the work you are doing right now, the stuff touring with dirt days and ssuff that you do generally combines the abstract and very much here and now. a lot of elements of what's going on in the world right now. you are obviously a voracious readdr, you mentioned to me the touring that you do, i asked you how you managed to survive all of those travel days and all of those miles and you said i read. >> yeah. >> you pretty much spend all of your time reading. >> on the plane, yeah. >> yeah. >> so this tour, it's a little short two-week thing. it started out in lithuania, then -- so there i was reading an incredible book, really like to recommend my struggle by karl [indiscernible] nelsgard, really our proust, a really unbelievable book, he lives in sweden, also, that was my next gig. i had finished that by then. then i had the leg of stockholm to portland and then to berkeley, so i read telegraph avenue, which is also a lo

at flea markets but one elderly couple in england got more than they bargained for the couple from bedford shire england purchased what they thought was an average run of the mill straw about a local village flea market and they planted it in their backyard well as time went by and as the plant thrived in the couple's backyard it became clear that this was no ordinary backyard shrub the couple had knowingly planted one monstrous marijuana plant check that thing out it's pretty massive yeah the plan was so large that the local police took notice of it and like a bunch of squares ended up seizing it this past week at the local police used their twitter page to report these semi drug bust waiting quote seized today elderly couple bought about a car boot sale tended carefully the biggest cannabis plant we had seen and quote the elderly couple are not facing any criminal charges the flea market on the other hand can't keep their shrubs on the shelf. coming up how do billionaires who lay off thousands of american workers and outsource jobs overseas get labeled as job creators makes no sense to m

horatio, you need to head over to carla hoyle's address-- 3650 bedford avenue., i have no idea what this is about! where's sophie walsh? where is the baby? .357 in the passenger seat. okay, mr. wolfe. where's sophie walsh, carla? sophie who? where's the baby? i don't know! check the trunk, mr. wolfe. there's no baby, but there's some money. did you kill her just like you killed your partner? no, look, it's not like you think. marty was going to kill me! it was only a matter of time. (baby crying) time to make the call, babe, collect our cash. then what? you take me out and keep all the cash for yourself? don't think so. this is stuart walsh. (distorted voice): we have your baby. if you want to see her again, you will give us $500,000. okay, get her up. now, you made the ransom call. where is she? i don't have her anymore. i gave her to this guy. what guy? the guy who hired us to do the kidnapping. rodrigo sanchez. h, that's the maître d' at the restaurant this morning. you're not going anywhere until the police get here! they took my baby! miss! wolfe: they made

the same thing happened last month when mitt romney held a business roundtable in bedford height, ohio. he did it at a plant called american spring wire. they bill themselves as north america's largest manufacturer of valve and commercial-quality sprint wire. they also make pc strand. at his visit to american spring wire, mr. romney hammered away at president obama for not being tough on china. not the way that he mitt romney would be tough on china. but the company mr. romney chose for his backdrop that day, the company that he chose to implicitly help make that case so happened to be a poster child for success by president obama in getting tough on china. in 2009 in the first months of president obama's presidency, american spring wire joined with two other makers to ask for help. china was unfairly dumping steel wire in the united states market at artificial low prices. they asked for help. the commerce department said they would investigate and the commerce department did move to protect american spring wire. they cracked down on china for dumping their underpriced product. thus th

around the more than 1,000 units located off university boulevard in languageley park inside the bedfordrts. they were acquired and out of town investment bank. it is managed by the group with offices in the west and midwest. >> partially bordered businesses are only part of it. they say they've had reports of lead poisoning due to the paint inside the apartments. bed bugs and other infestations. they're saying the only way to get management to respond to them is to take them to court. sandra lopez said her floors have been stripped to the support beams for a year now. the work to replace the floors started, then stopped. you can see through the holes in the floor to the apartment beneath because it is missing a ceiling. >> and one of the other men that live here, he was standing there and he almost fell through because of the huge hole. so that's what is covering that up. >> reporter: then there are the complaints about the arm security that patrols the apartment complexes. this resident and father says he was beaten by security outside his apartment because he didn't have i.d. >> i ask

people living in the bedford station, victoria station, and new bury square apartments.say they're living in deplorable conditions. for years, many complained of bed bugs and mites as well as holes in bedroom ceilings and floors. management got an extension to fix the problem. in a committee meeting, counselman will campos who represents langley park says enough is enough. >> please let us do our part and crack down on what's happening over there and do what we're supposed to be doing for these residents. please relay that message. we cannot give them any more extensions. they have had long enough to take care of these problems. >> all three properties were foreclosed and acquired by an out of town investment bank. now it is managed by larrimar group with offices in the west and midwest. >> sending snail mail will soon be a little more expensive. cnbc's courtney reagan is live with that. courtney, good morning to you. nice to see you. >> good morning to you. it's good to see you as well. >>> it's going to cost a little bit more to send that bill or letter. the u.s. posta

the issue has spread to more than 1,000 units at the bedford station, victoria station in newbury park. residents say they're dealing with holes in the floors and ceilings and bed bugs. management hasn't responded to any of their complaints. >> we're not being responded to a crisis that's now to the point of even a civil rights crisis. >> renters also say the security force is overly aggressive, even assaulting residents who didn't have their i.d. on them. management did not return news 4's phone calls, but a county spokesman says the management group has until october 20th to fix the violations. >>> today howard brooks, a former campaign aide to mayor gray, will be sentenced on krums charges. brooks admitted in may that he lied to the fbi about funneling money to fringe mayoral candidate suleiman brown. brown says he was paid by the gray campaign to bash then mayor adrian fenty. they expect brooks will be sentenced to probation and not jail time because he was providing substantial assistance to their investigation. brooks is one of three former aides to plead guilty to corruption cha

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it's spread to more than 1,000 units in the bedford station. with holes in the floors and ceilings and bed bugs, and management isn't doing anything to fix the problem. >> we're not being responded to a crisis that's now to the point af civil rights crisis. >> and the security force is overly aggressive, even assaulting residents who don't have their ids on them. management did not return news 4's phone calls, but a county spokesperson says the management group has until october 20th to fix some of those violations. >> coming up on 5:51. time for weather and traffic on the ones. looks like we're in for a slight warmup and back down again and back up again. >> exactly. the roller coaster ride you normally get during the fall. a lot of us are just tired of being in this kind of dismal weather we've been in since sunday. it's been on the chilly side. of course, it felt like november. today we're going to move back to october. just for a day. 53 in virginia. 53 in warrenton. 56 in hunting town to our east and southeast. temperatures are ten-plus de

people living in the bedford station, victoria station, and new bury square apartments say they're livingplorable conditions. for years many complained of bed bugs and mice as well as holes in the floors, ceilings, and windows. prince george's county inspectors identified more than 1,000 violations, but management got extensions to fix the problems. in a committee meeting, congressman will campos who represents langley park, said enough is enough. >> let us do our part and crack down on what's happening over there and do what we're supposed to be doing for these residents. please relay this message. we cannot give them any more extensions. they have had long enough to take care of these problems. >> all properties were foreclosed and acquired by an out of town investment bank. it is now managed by the lamar -- or larramar group with offices in the west and midwest. >> storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson is here with the forecast. >>> we're talking about glove weather coming back. in fact, if you're going to be out this morning for any lengthy period of time, i'd say take the glove

romney when he left bedford, massachusetts. just a few minutes ago actually.new york. we're hour as way as we've been saying from tonight's presidential debate. president obama, mitt romney, squaring off at hofstra university on new york's long island. the debate will follow a town hall style format, candidates takiing questions from the audience on domestic, foreign policy issues. it's pretty open. the audience made up of undecided voters choeszen by the gallup organization and the debate moderator, we keep bragging about, our own candy crowley. she talked with kyra phillips whether she's feeling pressure as well as how the town hall will work. >> reporter: here's the format. there are town hall people around. we have selected the questions previously. il s i'll see them tuesday morning. we'll call on alice, alice will stand up, ask a question, both candidates will answer and there's time for a follow-up question, facilitating a discussion, whatever you call it to kind of go. if alice asks oranges and someone answers apples, there's time to go alice asked ora

." >> stephanie: bob, jim says for anyone who's seen a wonderful life, would you rather live in bedfordhe's a boss. he's mr. spacely. every boss -- >> jetson! [ laughter ] >> stephanie: he's mr. potter. evil boss, fill in here. mr. burns. >> funny the things we remember from childhood. >> stephanie: yes. he said what the challenger is offering us in the end is a boss. there are lots of nicer words. ceo, job creator with that word that has a religious aura to it. capitalize the c and a halo appears. he's a boss. common word for the common thing. it can be benign, malevolent, revered, loathed but he is, he's just -- he's that guy. >> i say ha, ha, be a boss. like a boss. ha ha. [ laughter ] >> isn't that wonderful eddie? >> i bow. >> stephanie: ellen degeneres just got the mark twain prize. >> good for her. [ applause ] >> well deserved. >> stephanie: holding her back. >> she broke the ice. she broke the glass ceiling. >> stephanie: right. she said the president -- i'm hoping our president stays put. if you're a woman you should be very, very scared of that for many reasons. she obviously