that it needed to be that the gentleman who discovered it i guess was hiram bingham. >> he was a yale lecturer who found it just about 100 years ago exactly and caused a little controversy because he later took full credit for finding machu picchu and left out the fact that there were three families of farmers living up growing tomatoes among the ruins when he got there. he came back a year later. >> jon: do native people count? >> that is part of the controversy. >> jon: and you decided to retrace bingham's path to machu picchu. >> yes. he did a famous expedition in 1911 on which he was looking for the lost city of the incas which was this legendary city that many believe that a group of inca nobles had run off to with all the treasures of the empire when pizarro arrived in 1532. >> jon: this was to escape the spanish and their takeover. >> the con quist to dores who arrived, exactly. he also got a hot tip that there might be cool ruins. >> jon: a hot tip on cool ruins. >> exactly. you haven't read "national geographic" in a while. >> jon: now this bingham was writing for "national g

what i have learned is, i have written biographies, bingham family of louisville. we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her father. my grandfather working away in san antonio then adored this daughter, book dedicated to him. she was then gone up to new york and going to school at columbia. he wrote her a furious letter. >> your grandfather? >> yes. you have broken your promise and haven't been putting yourself full time, although the book would you say in the front of "new york times". he pulled the carpet on her. that kind of thing. you could leap on that and say, well that says it all, doesn't it? one of the things i learned about writing about family is there aren't answers to so many questions. it is a mistake in a family to think every question has an answer. one of the questions i had going into the book was, do we pass sibling relationships down? was the fact that my father had such a difficult relationship with his older sister, was that the thing? going into writing this book i would say there it

tonya bingham had watched her dog for her when she was shot out of town. stunned by what happened. --she watched her dog for her while she was out of town she was stunned that that happened. >> she loved her dogs and i'm just sad that that happen. >> a san carlos woman is behind bars tonight she is accused of threatening people--police with a knife after brutally stabbing her pet lizard. police say they are ride in that is when they said she pulled a knife on them tetes' her, took her into custody and that is when they noticed an abuse 14 your opec dragon. she has been charged with animal cruelty, vandalism and banishing a weapon. new details about the police chief of the oakland public schools. the school district announced that he has retired from the force effective today district officials say that his retirement will close the investigation into allegations that he used a racial slur and aimed at his subordinates while off duty. this is not the first time that he has faced troubles. he was forced to resign from a state justice department job back in 2

bingham when an dot loop was one of adult dot up last week we told you that actress and hillary dust and her husband or expecting their first child. issues expected to stop shooting for the film the story on the and clyde because she is pregnant should cannot shoot until june >> from off production schedule. we're keeping our eyes on wall street, a surprising rise of over 2 percent for the dow jones. the dow is back over the 11,000 mark. here is a look at the 7 day around the bay forecast. we are looking at a hot day today. close to 100 degrees in the hottest spots. the weekend looks terrific. we call it: but is still 86 by sunday and monday. they give for joining us on the kron 4 morning is, we hear tomorrow at 4:00 a.m.. dr. phil is next. we will see you later.

host: here is a tweet this morning from fred bingham. take a look at this charge. this is the personal savings rate over the years. the blueline is the years we have recession. it goes from 1959 all the way to january 2012. red line is the savings rate. you can see how much americans were saving in 1975-1976. you can see the savings rate declining. where we were in 2006 was less than 2%. we are back up to about 5%, but that is down from a recent high of 5.5%. we will go next to donald in arizona, under $50,000. caller: good morning, c-span. i'm right between phoenix and las vegas, one of the hardest- hit areas for housing. people are walking away from their mortgages. we have had our house up for sale for a year-and-a-half and we cannot sell it. host: why? what is happening? caller: i have not had a call on this house in over one month. i live in a really nice area here. i am not the only person. there are just people -- they have a sign up and they cannot sell them. a couple streets over, they just walked away. you are pretty much stuck. if you ask me what's wrong