and finally, one day, when i was just about to graduate from high school i got a call from charlie ward, his administrative assistant. he asked me how i would feel about being the first woman page . knew this say, i was ecstatic about this. i said, i will have to ask my parents. he said, mr. albert has spoken to your parents and it is ok with them. i said absolutely. that was how it began. >> by the latter 1970's, it is about half female, half male. it's in the early 1980's, that we have the first female based on her grades inthe the page school elevated to the speakers page, which was a real approximate for the grils. -- a real kabul schmidt -- accomplishment for the girls. technology was changing the job. whether it was the telegraph which obviated writing pages. or the telephone which obviated telegraph paged. so, technology by the latter 20 century, particularly in the computer age, smartphone age, begins to obviate a lot of the tasks. the need for messengers on the floor was really not that great by the latter part of the 20th century. and the ability to deliver documents electroni

years, and finally one day when i was just about to graduate from high school, i got a call from charlie ward, who was mr. albert's administrative assistant, and he asked me how i would feel about being the first woman page. well, needless to say, i was finally ecstatic about this. i said, well i'll have to ask my parents first. he said, well, mr. albert has already spoken the to your parents and it's okay with them. and i said absolutely. so that's how it began. >> and by the latter 1970s. it's about half and half females, half males, and it's in the early 1980s that we have the first female based on her grades in the capitol page school elevated to the speaker's page, which was a real accomplishment for the girls of the day. but they're a pretty late addition to the history of the page program. technology was always changing the job of the pages. whether it was the telegraph or the telephone, which obviated telegraph pages, so technology by the latter 20th century, particularly in the computer age, the hand held smart phone age begins to obviate the tasks that pages had taken. the need for

. >> charlie: sir alan ward is a friend of yours. >> yes. >> charlie: you have a conversation.ere several judges at the dinner table. they were all -- seemed to know each other's judgments well. >> charlie: was the purpose of the dinner to inform you about judicial proceedings? >> no, nobody thought i was a novelist -- an on-the-job novelist. but sooner than later i had his judgments in hand, a bound volume, and i started thinking this is a form of fiction. this is a subgenre that needs examination, especially the family division. it's in the heart of fiction, the novel's concerns. i wasn't thinking of a novel. i put it in the back of my mind. three years later, he did tell me the story of a jehovah's witness case. he was halfway through the story and i knew i was going to write a novel. >> charlie: you'd found home. yeah. >> charlie: what did you say a few minutes ago? >> i think the family division has pitched its tent in fiction's terrain. it's love and the end of love, especially the end of love, the contested destinies of children, medical and legal ethics, all kinds of is

after leaving san francisco, southwest flight 623 turned into an airborne maternity ward as passenger charl charl charlie reeve tweeted a passenger just delivered a baby. >> an emergency room nurse was also on board and she helped with what witnesses and southwest are calling a successful mid-air delivery, a first for just about everyone involved. >> no, no, in fact i asked the flight attendant if she's ever gone through something like that. she said, no, it's something they talk about in the train bug not something you ever expect to use. that was her first time, too. >> southwest on its web site has advice about flying while pregnant, but in-flight delivery, that's always a surprise. the flight originally bound for phoenix made an emergency landing in los angeles. about two hours later, the remaining 111 passengers, who did not become parents today, flew on to phoenix. we're told the family is all well. >> happy ending. >> we got a sneak peak at the new kaiser permanente building. it replace as 50-year-old hospital that sits right next door. it features special procedure suites where patients get a mor