in the wee hours of the 9th of of april, general lee's aide lieutenant colonel charles marshall and fellowstaff officers of general's longstreet and gordon took their only refreshment of the day. a little corn meal gruel they shared from a heated shaving tin. and grandfather marshall noted later that this was our last meal in the confederacy. our next was taken in the united states. the agreement of surrender which took place 150 years ago was the culmination of seven letters between general grant and general lee.n exchanges initiated by grant on the 7th and closed by grant on the morning of the 9th. the number 7, which might be seen a seen as the number of completion if not perfection.s grandfather marshall noted here here that on the 9th of april at the little village of appomattox when general lee met general grant, the question of the union of the states passed into history, never to be revived! but what must never be forgotten here, he felt, was the conduct here of victorious americans in blue toward defeated americans in gray. specifically marshall said of the federals, they love the

will run right through marshall over the next 15 to 20 minutes and it will dump some very heavy rain. maybe a little thunder and lightning. then more shower activity toward charles don't. parts of charles county. so they won't be strong either. you can see a brief heavy downpour as you make your way out. future weather tomorrow morning, nothing big. notice tomorrow afternoon. a couple more showers. most of us will be dry. like what we saw today. not much in the way of coverage and i don't expect those to be strong. a couple of light showers and that's about it. fr chance of some area thunderstorms. we're not talking about anything severe. tomorrow back to near 90. 84 martinsburg. as we move through the day tomorrow if you think about getting out and doing a little exercise 74 at 8:00 a.m. the big thing here it will be hot. i'm not expecting it to be quite as humid as it was today. even today heat index got to 92 people in. we're not talking about the upper 90s just yet. 89 tomorrow. 87 on friday. 89 on saturday. those are the three really warm and humid days. on sunday, the high temperature of 85. we'll see a front move through. that front will change everything

charles bowlen or people from that era after world war ii george f. kennen, these remember people whose careers were cultivated. they were advisers to roosevelt and atchison and george marshall. we didn't create these people by the hundreds. they were created by the dozens. and i think that's still true. i can name for you even now, when i was deputy secretary of state i had a pretty good idea who were the best signologists and who were the latin american experts and you get to know who they are. and you know who the best analysts are. why? because their analysis bubbles up to the president in the daily brief and they get to come and brief the president themselves on their issue. so it's somewhat of a qualitative difference in terms of turning out people in those kinds of highly professional analytic situations as distinct from a larger scale military organization although i would be the first to acknowledge that the military has become a much more more intellectualized institution than it used to be. it has moved up the educational scale substantially. if i'm envious of anything in the military establishment it's their training budget. if you would just give -- we don't hav

charles: other news making headlines the u.s. navy stepping up their efforts to protect american ships traveling through the state of hormuz. after iran fired and seized a cargo ship from the marshallarlier this week. the clock is ticking for a nuclear deal with iran. many are concerned that these new tensions could kill any hope of an agreement. scientists at harvard and northwestern have developed the new test that can predict with 100% accuracy whether a person will develop cancer up to 13 years in the future. it was created by focusing on significant changes that happen in the body up to ten years ahead of the cancer diagnosis. a record 40,000 plus shareholders come together in omaha. that's right. the annual berkshire hathaway shareholder meeting. warren buffett marks the 50th year as the chairman of the biggest conglomerate. liz claman is covering the action. on monday 8:00 p.m. don't miss liz sits down with the oracle of omaha himself and his right-hand man charlie munger and bill gates right here on fox business. ♪ charles: i have to tell you i'm sure she works hard for the money. but marissa mayer ceo of yahoo is a long way from singing the blues. $42 million, her compensa

charles: other news making headlines, the u.s. navy stepping up their efforts to protect american ships traveling through the state of hormuz. after iran fired and seized a cargo ship from the marshalllier this week. the clock is ticking for a nuclear deal with iran. many are concerned that these new tensions could kill any hope of an agreement. scientists at harvard and northwestern have developed the new test that can predict with 100% accuracy whether a person will develop cancer up to 13 years in the future. it was created by focusing on significant changes that happen in the body up to ten years ahead of the cancer diagnosis. a record 40,000 plus shareholders come together in omaha. that's right. the annual berkshire hathaway shareholder meeting. warren buffett marks the 50th year as the chairman of the biggest conglomerate. liz claman is covering the action. on monday, 8:00 p.m. don't miss, liz sits down with the oracle of omaha himself and his right-hand man charlie munger and bill gates right here on fox business. ♪ charles: i have to tell you, i'm sure she works hard for the money. but marissa mayer, ceo of yahoo is a long way from singing the blues. $42 million, her compen

marshals and administered of actions against people who abused detainees. abuse is wrong. diodod for them accountable. host: our topic is guantanamo bay. our guest is charles stimson. bill from san antonio, the morning. caller: thank you for c-span. mr. stimson my question is that you keep saying we are bound by the law of war. this country never declared war. our congress is too cowardly to stand up and do something. they want whichever president it is to take all the weight of declaring a war . as far as the geneva convention, seems to me like there was a call to use the geneva convention as toilet paper. have a good day. guest: i have been on your morning show talking about how our country has only declared five times and article gives the congress power to declare war but the president as power -- the power as commander-in-chief to declare war. out of all those wars, there have been over 40 some authorizations for the use of military force. over the last couple of three decades, bill, it has been not a custom for countries to declare war anymore because of the change international law. now it is more the habit and customer countries to use their domest