but one from baltimore, the dutchess of windsor. this is the only book that has been written about her because she was quite something. the only book written by a woman. that woman. the story of the dutchess of windsor. lots of interesting things. another interesting woman. she was the -- -- she got a phone call saying she is now the king of a village. >> out of nowhere? >> the king, a woman. so her story is ins prayingal. it is something i think would touch your heart. this village wasn't quite ready to have a woman to be the king. it needed a lot. >> what time will she be there, by the way. >> she will be at the pratt library at 2:00. we are expecting a great turnout. i know a lot of people are waiting for a book about mad women, what it was like to be a woman in the advertising age. >> what this woman said, a lot of the things you see on tv are true. and then to really bring it home in terms of women, lady almena, if you have seen -- >> very popular. >> here is the real lady almena. a lot of good thicks things -- things. if you w

what she said in her first official speech as dutchess >> the next couple of days we have some changes coming up and we could have showers moving in. we will have more on that coming up. >> >> take a look at this, heavy flooding has cut off communities in northern new zealand and many roads are impassable and neighbors are being told to stay inside but in one area people had to move to higher ground. more than two months' worth of rain has fallen in the northland area in the past day and a half. i don't often get to hang out in the weather apartment but i see a lot of green down here. >> if i had known you were coming i would've had food and drinks. we have changes coming up, kind of a nice break outside but the sierra nevada is being pounded and over the weekend. five-7 ft. of snow over the mountain peaks. we expect the possibility of more snow coming their way as late as tonight. we have a few clouds outside but not too bad. 51 in oakland, livermore checking in at 50 degrees. it looks like we will have a pretty nice afternoon. it will stay dry and use temperatures will be a little bi

it will be the future residence of prince william and the dutchess of cambridge. >>> in time for the sun to go down. >> and it was soupy out early, early this morning, brian. still gorgeous, though, real nice around the title basin, the -- tidal basin, the blossoms are at peak to full bloom and a few of them at past peak. still, radiant down there in the surrounding areas and with some blossoms out. if you're planning a trip this weekend, saturday, sunday, not all that great and it will be unsettled. i don't think that is going to be a complete weekend washout. we're going to have rain and thunderstorms. the temperatures on saturday look to be lower to mid-70s. it really depends on saturday how much sunshine we get and then exactly when do the thunderstorms come rolling on through. sunday right now, looks to be cooler. temperatures in the 60s. the storm system is in the plains and pulling out and that is real, real slow. speaking of the fog this morning, my weather photo, we started with a foggy start. thank you, too, to everyone that is downloading the pictures to our website and we

. >> you live in dutchess county, on a horse farm. >> on a horse farm. >> what's it like? >> what's it like. well, we have not that many horses. at the moment we have five. and our maximum capacity is six. but it's still a lot of work and a great pleasure. i ride every day. my wife margaret is an active competitive rider, and it's a major part of our lives. by the way which ike would have shared. he loved horses. he was a good rider. it was the form of exercise before he started to take up golf that most interested him. >> you've written a book on horses. >> yes. horse people. and i wrote a book with my wife margaret on how to care for horses. horse housekeeping and, of course, a book on cats with my wife margaret called "cat people." >> how many years with simon & schuster? >> 47. >> 1950 -- >> 1958 i came to simon & schust schuster. >> from where? >> from cbs of all things. i was a script reader at cbs for about a year and slid my way into book publishing which i'd never given much thought and stuck. not only stayed in book publishing, but stayed at the same house for ne

>> sitting at my desk at home in dutchess county. i have a very comfortable chair and a big desk and an office which my wife margaret says is absolutely littered with books and papers. every once in a while we make an effort to get it all tidied up but that's not an easy thing to do. i'm very happy reading there. i love reading. i'm a book publisher, so, of course, to some degree i'm paid to read. but i am somebody who is never totally happy without a book at hand or several books at hand that i can read through and interest myself in. so, for me, writing a biography of somebody like eisenhower is to begin with an immense pleasure. there are those letters to read. there are those other books about him to read. there is the german war stuff to read. there's the french war stuff. there's de gaulle's memoirs, book after book after book, and after you read them, you say, yes, but i haven't read that and this points to that and i need to read that as well or this particular set of correspondence makes me want to read some of patton's ledd

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about 450 soldiers waited to get their sprig of good luck from the new dutchess. >> in ireland, the city of dublin was awash with green and a wholef lot of fun. st. patrick is the patron saint of ireland where it's a holiday today. >> leigh glaser is here with a look at the forecast. >> leigh: that's a sneak in st. patrick's day parade in san francisco with just a few drops here and there. you can see behind me our high def next roof top cam, the clouds are with us, the wind picked up but we're seeing a lot of dry pavement out there this evening, the live doppler 7 hd suggesting most of the cells are sticking maybely off the coast, inland locations around the bay area are dry. we're still picking up a little rain over towards the sacramento area, and light snow now is falling at lake tahoe. here's a look at our current readings. in the 40s. 47, san rafael. 46 in san jose. clouds over livermore. i want to show you the winds. they're howling out there. gusts of 40 at sfo. novato, gusts at 30. westert 60 at 60 in livermore, d san jose, it's windy, with the westerly gusts to 20 miles-per-hou

. >> such as cables and gave her first public speech today -- dutchess kate gave her first public speechdren's hospital. she gave a confident but brief speech. >> first of all, i would like to say thank you. thank you for not only accepting me as a patron. thank you also for inviting me today. >> she frequently referred to her notes but deliver the speech clearly and deliberately. she is being praised for a job well done. you can only imagine the pressure of her first speech. >> no teleprompter for her. let's see what is coming up at 6:00. >> gordon peterson is live with a look ahead. >> another important primary is coming up tomorrow. this one is in the midwest. we will talk about two of the canada is taking this seriously. a couple are not even participating in the land of lincoln. some local seniors get a scare. they're told they owe back taxes. it was a big mistake. we're happy to report that. we will see you at 6:00. >> it is just another beautiful day. >> what a spring we have had on the last day of winter. there are a few showers that have built up across northern maryland. they h

the dutchess of cambridge, kate middleton, playing field hockey with the british olympic team in london. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs in morning." may i just say, charlie rose, happy friday. >> you're happy it's friday. >> i am so happy it's friday. you too? >> i am too. i'm charlie rose. from the 1940s to the 1980s, sears was america's biggest retailer. thanks to internal troubles and tough competition, the company hasn't made a profit in more than a decade. >> it's closing hundreds of stores. there are rumors of sears going into bankruptcy. well, we can get the answers to that as we welcome lou d'ambrosio to studio 57 this morning. hello, lou d'ambrosio. you've heard all the rumors, i know. >> i have. >> should the sears shoppers be worried? >> i think sears shoppers should not listen to what they hear. >> are the reports of your death premature or greatly exaggerated? >> greatly exaggerated. in the end, customers vote with their wallets. we had 40 billion votes last year so we had $40 billion of sales last year. so in fact there's still a lot of people coming to sears. >> so why a

. >>> a royal first, the dutchess of cambridge will hold an appearance, shamrocks and pageantry fit for a future queen. today is saturday, march 17th, 2012. >>> from nbc news, this is "today" with lester holt and amy robach. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everyone welcome to "today" on saturday i'm lester holt. >> i'm amy robach. i think they through green light, we're barely wearing green. >> i think a slight green stripe. i found green here. >> when you were kids if you didn't wear green you got pinched. >> yep. >> i didn't say do it, i asked if you did. >> apparently so. >> happy st. patrick's day. >>> george clooney, friday he put his star power to use to get attention for the violence in sudan. that protest cost the oscar winner his freedom for a short while. we'll hear why he says the arrest was wort it. >>> there are videos that make the rounds on youtube, this one is being called the cinnamon challenge, a dare that involves trying to swallow a spoonful of cinnamon. sounds like innocent fun, but there are serious warnings how dangerous this fad can be