. ♪ the christmas carols echo through union square, but the atmosphere is less charles dickens and moreonfessions of a shopaholic. >> what did you have to get on black friday? >> all my christmas presents. it's a surprise. >> reporter: black friday has become tradition for many. >> apparently we had to come out for the disney store. can't get it anywhere else. >> reporter: but getting "it accounts, whatever it is, takes patience. there are traffic lines on the freeway to get to the livermore premium outlets, and more lines outside the small, so long that

when charles dickens visited us in 1840, he was truly blown away by high water pressure on the fourth floor of the hotel he was staying in. nowhere in europe had he experienced that. this technology was doing something to support the life and the growth of the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water come

. > >the invisible woman is ray fiennes' latest directorial debut about charles dickens but it's about a secondary character in dickens life---it's not very good. > >and mandela? > >mandela i haven't seen yet. idris elba is playing nelson mandela in the film. it's gonna get kind of a small release. not a lot of great buzz on that one. > >let's see what happens there. but definitely meryl streep is going to come to the top as she always does. > >she's going to be nominated, but she's going to be fighting sandra bullock for gravity and maybe judi dench in philomena. so it's gonna be an interesting race for best actress. > >good to have you on the show. thank you eric. > >thank you. coming up...trader tips on how to handle the stock market during the holiday season...and warren buffett's son and grandson share their life lessons after the break. we'll be right back! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ you have the possibility of making the world a better place. that's according to a new book by billionaire warren buffett's son and grandson. the book is: forty chances: finding hope in a hungry world. we are so plea

helen carpenter stars in the classic charles dickens novel "great expectations." ier my irvine plays the adult pip. >> the building was rigged to be demolished and we took it over and turned it into a studio. >> reporter: "great expectations" opens friday. that's your eye on entertainment. >> everything reminds me of monty python. >>> good morning. thank you for watching wusa9 at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck. thanks for joinings. hump day, wednesday. glad you're there with us. >> hello, michael. >> what's the weather? it's bloody nice today. >> it's going to be a fine wednesday across the region. tomorrow is going to be a different story with some showers but today we're milder so the deep chill of monday is gone. i think we'll have a decent amount of sunshine of the not crystal blue all day but a decent amount of sun boosting us into the 60s. we have good visibility this morning under cloudy skies. again the clouds will break. we'll go partly to mostly sunny. lunch time temperature of 63. we'll top out at 67 and back to 63 by 5:00 p.m. with sout

may have given the author her highest praise when he liken heard work to her favorite author charles dickensrative. >> so what are you questioning with here? what is love? what else? >> what is love? what is the good life. >> what do you mean by that, the good life? and why is that interesting to you? >> well, the idea is -- there are many different issues. is the good life to be happy with oneself? personal happiness? is it to make people happy at the expense of one's own happenness? what is that for any of us? we all have to work that out on our own. >> what about for you? >> for me, two great salvations. love and work. >> me too. you got it. you can get love and work, life will be very good to you. >> love and work. >> i would only add health to that. love and work and good health. >> at 5 foot tall the mississippi native seems to move through life on her own terms. she is at once delightful and peculiar and mysterious. >> do you like the mystery about you? what's important for me as a writer really is solitude. it's not so much reclusiveness as just a need to be alone when i work. when i

so i novelists like charles dickens would be hard pressed to write about i think, hamilton's mother was branded by the courts as a whole or. his father abandoned the family his mother and father never married so hamilton was a legitimate. in did not finding enough to occupy their prejudice featured illegitimate children. but on the child himself. he must have experienced some blows we know he was discriminated against in the sense but he said where he was growing up and i think out of that, hamilton is shaped like leaving the child is the father to the man. and then driven from that point on to seek fame to seek respect to drive him throughout his life. another similarity is a car with slave zero mate -- slave voting parents hamilton's mother owned five slaves those were extremely ambitious but then that was more than a little and a great deal in hamilton. both valued education. hamilton came tuesday maidenly and college days we can go to college head jefferson wrote to his guardian and then go to the college of william and mary saying it would give a more universal acquaintance for him

may have given the author her highest praise when he liken heard work to her favorite author charles dickens narrative. >> so what are you questioning with here? what is love? what else? >> what is love? what is the good life. >> what do you mean by that, the good life? and why is that interesting to you? >> well, the idea is -- there are many different issues. is the good life to be happy with oneself? personal happiness? is it to make people happy at the expense of one's own happenness? what is that for any of us? we all have to work that out on our own. >> what about for you? >> for me, two great salvations. love and work. >> me too. you got it. you can get love and work, life will be very good to you. >> love and work. >> i would only add health to that. love and work and good health. >> at 5 foot tall the mississippi native seems to move through life on her own terms. she is at once delightful and peculiar and mysterious. >> do you like the mystery about you? what's important for me as a writer really is solitude. it's not so much reclusiveness as just a need to be alone when i work. wh

charles dickens was a fiercely contested prize. hundreds of thousands of copies of his work circle throughout the united states and in the frenzied competition for new english fiction among the weekly periodicals of the 1830s and 1840s, firms like harper's regarded themselves as authorized publishers as an unbound part at 12.50 per copy. he denounced what he called books on this here in the united states and he denounced the scoundrel booksellers who have grown rich from publishing books which do not reap one thing from their issue and that was not well received in the united states. he was well received when he opened his mouth about the american newspapers turning against him. writing to dickens in the same year, thomas carlyle adopted these terms to discuss with his american pirates, saying that we belong to a different nation and cannot steal without being hanged for it and it gives me no permission to steal and thou shalt not steal at all. so it is written down for the men in the logbook of the maker and in latter the latter p

the man who quoted charles dickens in his campaign skeechs is the new face of the big apple. take a look at those numbers. how often do you see that? 73% to 24% against his republican opponent joe lhota. and equality was a big part of his campaign. take a listen. >> when we call among the wealthiest among us to pay just a little more in taxes to fund universal pre-k and afterschool programs -- [ cheers and applause ] -- we aren't threatening anyone's success. we are asking those who have done very well to ensure that every child has the same opportunity to do just as well as they have. [ cheers and applause ] that's how we all rise together. >> i want to bring in national correspondent deborah feyerick who is live in new york. there was a real significant core of his campaign that featured his family. they are a biashl family. can you tell how that sort of played out? >> absolutely. what was so fascinating and what's so unique about this first family of new york city is the fact that they are biracial. you've got a white mayor, african-american wife, and biracial children. th

. >> interested in picking up a classic - maybe charles dickens "tale of two cities" or her many melvin's "motorbiky dick." these works have been scanned and online with google books. it's working to give classics and long forgotten books new life. it's not limited to books whose copyrights have expired. millions of titles have been excluded. authors feel that the american associationful american publishers sued goog the for its book -- google for its book project. it was ruled this week that google's project is legal. let's turn to nick, author of a back "the in, the big", he joins us from boston. talk about the ruling. what does it mean for the web? >> this is a landmark ruling. after eight years in litigation it's a support for google. it's a repudiation of the people who brought the lawsuit and a win, a victory for google. i am sure that some of the executives at apple and microsoft were looking for google to lose on this one. the judge really came out swinging for google here. >> explain why the judge did agree with google. if you go to google books a lot of people are surprised at h

it's never that perfect charles dickens kind of ending. >> when you get all these characters back togetheru know, and there were still length gearing tensions from the first movie, they're still there. between harper and lance and robert and jordan and shelby and candice. so that makes for great comedy and a lot of great drama and conflict. >> do we need to see "the best man" because you talked about the tensions between harper and lance and it was over monika or mia what they did. >> that's right. the good girl gone bad. >> i need to see that movie before this one? >> it's not necessary. >> it's on tv all the time. >> that's the mark after timeless classic. that's what i want to do the first time out. i am glad fans like the movie like they do. the movie stands on its own. i think the fans of the first movie will enjoy this more by seeing the other one but those who haven't can still enjoy this film. >> one reviewer said it's not just -- even though there's a large ensemble black cast, it's not just for black audiences and that's the joyousness of the best man holiday. >> it's the truth.

maybe charles dickens's "tale of two cities." or herman melville "motorbiky dick", or alexander's "three musketeers", these works have been scanned and are available online for free through google books. it's working with groups to give classics and long forgotten works new life. millions of titles are included and that has google fighting accusations of copyright infringements. the author's guilt and the association of american publishers sued google. a judge ruled google's project is league app under fair youth. i spoke to a researcher and asked him what the lawsuit means for the web. >> this is a landmark ruling, an amazing - after eight years in litigation it's an absolute complete support for google. it's a repudiation of the people who brought the lawsuit, and a real win, a victory for google. i am sure that some of the executives at apple and microsoft were looking for google to lose much the judge came out swipinging for google -- interinging for -- swipinging for google here. >> if you go to google books. a lot of people

. ♪ the christmas carols echo through union square, but the atmosphere is less charles dickens and moreonfessions of a shopaholic. >> what did you have to get on black friday? >> all my christmas presents. it's a surprise. >> reporter: black friday has become tradition for many. >> apparently we had to come out for the disney store. can't get it anywhere else. >> reporter: but getting "it accounts, whatever it is, takes patience. there are traffic lines on the freeway to get to the livermore premium outlets, and more lines outside the small, so long that surely someone's pizza will be delivered cold. >> 600 feet for almost an hour and a half. >> progress! >> sort of. >> reporter: if that's not enough, there are lines to get in some stores. >> today we're looking for a good deal, like 50% off, 80% off. >> i would be very cautious. i would go check on the internet, see what the prices are there. >> reporter: this wealth advisor with morgan stanley says a shortened holiday shopping calendar isn't going to help retail sales this year. we're looking at the lowest projected gains of holiday r

hamilton endured a use that a novelist lake charles dickens would have been hard pressed to write about icy. hamilton's mother was granted by the courts as a horror. his father abandoned the family. his mother and father never married so hamilton was an illegitimate child and the biggest of that day, not finding enough to occupy their prejudices, much of it at illegitimate children. not so much on the parents, but the child himself said that hamilton and i think have experienced a thousand cool in his youth. we know that he was discriminated against in the sense that he could not attend the public schools where he was growing up. i think i have got used, hamilton has really shaped. i believe in the old adage that the child is the father to the man. nms in stands, i think hamilton comes out of his youth scarred industry event from map point on to seek fame, to seek renown, to seek respect than that drives him throughout his life. another similarity is that both surprisingly grew up with slaveowning parents. jefferson's father owned about 200 slaves. hamilton's mother: five slaves. both w

maybe charles dickens "tale of two cities," or herman melville's "moby dick" - there you have it. or department of human evolutionary biology's "three muskateers." that is one of my favourites of the those famous stories, and countless others are available online for free through google books. google is trying to give classics a lease on life. some of those books have copyright which is why google is fighting accusations of a massive copyright infringement. the author's gild sued google for its book project. it is leaguele under fair use. >> after eight years in litigation, it's an slewed complete support for google. a real repudiation of the people who brought the lawsuit, and a real win - a victory for google. i am sure some of the executives at apple and microsoft were looking for google to lose on this one. the judge really came out swinging for google here. >> nick o'malley from the harvard kennedy school researching links between culture and technology. 40 million people in nij can't read or write. it's half of the country's population. numbers have pushed the world bank to

charles dickens was a fiercely contested prize. hundreds of thousands of pirated copies of his works circulated in the united states. the weekly and daily periodicals of the 1830s and 1840s, firms like harpers have regarded themselves as dickens authorized publishers, retaliated by issuing his novels and unbound parts at 12.5 percent. the first year of the american tour he denounced what he called a discount to booksellers. they grow rich in th rich in thd states by publishing books that do not reach one from their issue. that wasn't well received in the united states. writing in the senior, thomas carlyle adopted tones to express his disgust with american pirates and he said that they belong to a different nation and can't steal without being certainly hanged for it and give no permission to steal. thou steel at all for the nations and for men in the book in the maker of this universe. in the latter part of the 19th century, american publishers were aggressive in reprinting popular british authors without authorization and often w