edward and wallis themselves were barred from england after their marriage.ing a life ostracized and in exile. when edward wanted to bring wallis back to england, the records office contains a revealing letter from his brother, king george, in his own hand saying that such a visit would be impossible. but it has been 75 years since the event that shook an empire. is it time to give wallis simpson a break? is it your intention to rehabilitate her reputation or just to understand that this was a little more complicated than was thought at the time? >> i'm not trying to rehabilitate her reputation at all. i think there's a lot to criticize her for. she was manipulative. and she was an adventurous, if you like, but i do think she needs to be understood. you may not like her any more at the end of it but she deserves to be understood. how do you know which ones to follow? the equity summary score consolidates the ratings of up to 10 independent research providers into a single score that's weighted based on how accurate they've been in the past. i'm howard spielbe

edward mccabe: genes are like beads on a string. those strings are then packaged very compactly into the chromosomes, and we inherit one set of chromosomes from our father, one set of chromosomes from our mother. genes direct the formation of tissues and organs, hold instructions for all the chemical reactions that occur in the cells, and play a crucial role in determining our health and how long we live. in terms of appearance, a lot of how we look is in our genes. all we need to do is to look at two identical twins to realize how genes are important for our hair color and our eye color and the shape of our nose and the shape of our mouth, how we carry our fat, how tall we are, how short we are, the shape of our bodies. all of these are controlled-- about 90 or 95% by our genes. when we start talking about internal things, your personality, who you are, whether you're a nice person or a not so nice person, whether you have a good sense of humor or are rather dour-- then genes are also important, but to a lesser extent. clearly thes

and he fought edward covey and beat him. now, under the law and under most circumstances, douglass was now in mortal danger. but covey did nothing about it. and douglass interprets it, we don't have much other forms of interpretation, interpreted it as covey worried about his reputation. nothing was done to douglass. he served out his time with covey. covey never again laid a hand on him. there is an extraordinary remembrance that douglass wrote down in his first autobiography of a day that he spent on covey's farm and i just want to read that passage because i think it is the most beautiful and lyrical and penetrating metaphor in all of anti-slavery literature. one of the most stunning in all of american literature. douglass remembered a day on covey's farm and if you go there today, i could take you to covey's former property. i've been there now with other people and you can walk out on this ridge and you can see what douglass saw. our house, he wrote, stood within a few rods of the chesapeake bay whose broad boss many wa

for the better part of a year, rented douglass to one edward covey. edward covey became douglass master for a year between the ages of 16 and 17. edward covey beat douglass and terrorized him and broke his memory and broke him and lost his will. at one point he fled back to st. michaels and begged to be taken away from the fiend. ault said no. go back the next morning. he went back the next morning with his tail between his legs. it was a sunday. edward covey did not beat slaves on sunday, but on monday morning, he met douglass in the stables lifting hay. with a switch and according to douglass, he resisted and they fought, claimed douglass for two hours. i never believed that fight lasted two hours. maybe 20 minutes. who knows? according to douglass in the pivotal moment of his life as a slave, the way he portrays it, he fought back physically with his hands and he fought edward covey and beat him. now, under the law and under most circumstances, douglass was in mortal danger, but covey did nothing about it. douglass interpreted it as covey worried a

orders the destruction of sex tapes featuring edwards and rielle hunter.a north carollna superror court judge signed the settlement thursday between andrewwyoung, his wife and hunter.hunter had sued young and his wife for invasion of privacy seeking to rrclaim materials that she said belong to her, including personal photographs and an alleged sex ttpe showing her with edwards. is facebook guilty of violating its own privacy policy... by tracking users' in? information?two baltimore attornnys say "yes."this week they filed a class action lawsuit... accusing the social media site f collecting data about users "likee posts... and using that information to create more personalized ads. expertsssay the lawsuit will be a touuh case to win... because facebook users don't pay a ee... and choooing to click "like" on anything... is voluntary. <"and i'm happy tootrade what i've gievn them in return... free."> facebook is facing similar lawsuits in 3 other stttes. google is also under fire this morning... for making big changes to its privacy policy. to be concerned....it's reason - concerned.begi

she lives with edwards aid and his wife when she was pregnant. >>> the family of a football player hasd a wrongful death suit. dave duerson suffered at least three concussions in his career. he killed himself last year at the age of 50. the family says the league knew that concussions caused brain damage but they concealed it from players. >>> ryan braun can look forward to a full season after an arbitratoor fought his us is sengs. he fought the good fight. came back to the game. >> a monumental decision in the world of baseball. >>> nascar's big season opened on sunday in the daytona 500. danica patrick starts in the middle of the pack after crashes yesterday. >> she was fine. afterwards, she joked that hopefully, her backup car is faster than one she was driving. glad she is okay. >>> highlights from a high-profile nba showdown. >>> good morning the cole wright here with the espn news update. the linsanity continuing in the sunshine state of florida. lebron james had other balance. first quarter, d. wade to james, an alley-oop. later in the first, pocket picked by chalmers. he knew w

. -- cardinal edward o'brien. it is no less troubling for places maryland one step closer to the dismantling of the most fundamental institution in all of society. >> hundreds of you to share the story and commented on facebook. michael wright, we will one day be able to truly call this a free country. >> my personal belief is the word marriage is joining between a man and a woman under god. >> we broke the story on line. you can see an interactive timeline to today's vote in annapolis all on wbaltv.com. broken water fountains, faulty heating, old plumbing. tonight a baltimore -- support for a controversial bottle packs to improve city schools. the bald and education coalition toward patterson high school, one of the oldest schools in the city. the temperatures were near 90 degrees and they hope it will bring attention to the dilapidated conditions of the schools. >> i don't think it is fair that the best rooms in the school are for visitors and the main office. i believe all classrooms should be equal, the same t

hunter lived with the youngs in 2007 while pregnant with edwards' baby. the youngs agreed not to talk publicly about the tape. >> quince orchard road back open in gaithersburg after this tractor-trailer tipped on its side and spilled its load around noon here at the intersection of clopper road. the truck was hauling scrap metal and trash. several lanes of quince orchard road were closed for hours today while the trash and truck were removed. the driver had some minor injuries. >>> writer j.k. rowling announced today she'll release her first book for adults. the title, release date, and subject matter still a secret. the publisher says the book will be available in both print and electronic format. she is the author of the wildly popular "harry potter" series. some 450 million copies of the seven potter books are in print. that franchise also spawned movies that raked in over a billion dollars. >>> coming up on news 4 at 5:00 our i-team goes on a ride with animal control to look at how new homes are kicking animals out of their habitat. >>> time to play b

lia hunter mistress of john edwards. get the sex tape starring herself and john edwards. it was made while running for president. it had been snapped by young. she said he found out while he was helping hunter lied out from the media. one of the most bizarre twists of john edwards story, young claimed to be the baby's father. judge ordered the tape to be destroyed within 30 days. >> now to crackdown on illegal immigration in always. the new law is one of the toughest in the country. it requires schools to determine the immigration status of incoming students. law requires police to verify a person's immigration status during routine traffic stops or arrests. griff jenkins hit the ground in alabama to find out more. >> reporter: alabama's new immigration law that went into affect in september of last year have faced from the federal government and aclu and special interested groups. they are awaiting a hearing on march 1st with some of the provisions blocked so we came here to alabama, a city with a population of just ove

john edwards still faces trial on conspiracy charges. >>> new e-mails showing frustration from former vice presidential candidate sarah palin in her last month as alaska's governor. she resigned as governor. now e-mails show sarah complaining about the lawsuits and suits she faced. in one e-mail she wrote quote i can't take it anymore. >>> we have a follow up to the nine-year-old boy in washington state that brought a loaded gun to school and accidentally shot one of his classmates. that boy appeared in court yesterday wearing an orange jump suit crying as the judge read the charges against him and his father rubbed his back. students say the gun went off when the boy slammed his backpack down on his desk. a girl was hit by the bullet. he got the gun while a visit to his mothers house and told friends he was going to run away. >>> here in the bay area people that live in oakland say young people have easy access to guns. ktvu talked to several people who say they know where they can get a gun and they have friends that own them. >> i hear stories about kids that are in elementary scho

well, it was a very traumatic moment when, um, edward viii abdicated and her father became king. he had not been prepared for it, and he wept to his mother and said i was trained as a naval officer. he did learn to be an admirable king. and i think they, you know, they did -- well, i think they were tough on them. i think one of the difficulties was the possibility that the duke and duchess of windsor could have lived in england. that would have set up a parallel court. i think it would have been extremely difficult to have an ex-king and a current king living in the same place. and so for that reason they wanted them to live in, you know, someplace else, and during the war they lived in the bahamas, and then afterwards in paris. but i was struck that the queen did reach out to him. um, he came, you know, there was a rapprochement, and it was at her instigation. he had to come to london for some eye surgery, and she went and visited him in the hospital, and there was a commemoration for, um, for his mother, queen mary, and he was included in that. and, um, when she was making a s

at a two year legal battle over john edwards sex tape is over a settlement was reached between edwards' mistress rielle hunter and his former aide andrew young he has given up the ownership he claimed he had over that tape and a judge ordered that it must be destroyed within three days. i find this stuff kind of weird because why can't they just make him bring it to court and they destroy a pair that everybody sees the evan now he has thirty days to go back and re watch this thing god knows what the phrasing of he gave up the ownership he claimed. yeah . it's just this is bizarre to me that you need a court these days to tell you to destroy a sex tape i don't know why would you destroy it i think it's a travesty why didn't they have a go a little baby didn't they have the sex and they had a baby they have a child what if this was the sex that made the baby was this is how you like when you don't use contraception this would be chapter one of. the first page and they're just getting rid of it that's like that's the most precious thing that you could have to remember your child i think l

in prince edward county, virginia. this was the county that was the site of a 1951 protest led by black students to persuade their local school board to build them a better school. it also led in part to the landmark civil rights place -- decision, brown vs. board of education. my grandmother and her sisters realized early on that education was important for their survival. their unshakeable persistence and unflinching sacrifice led them to better lives. not only did they had -- have to do with racism but the belief that a woman's place was in the home and in this case on the farm doing the chores like cooking, cleaning, milking the cow and cutting wood. this is the 1930's. you have to cut wood for everything. as i mentioned earlier prince edward county was not interested in educating colored children but my grandmother and her sisters were persistent and found a school in the neighboring county of appomattox which was down the street from the courthouse where general robert e. lee surrendered to general ulysses s. gra

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i'm edward lawrence for cbs news, hollywood. >>> good morning. thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. happy tuesday. >> mardi gras. >> fat tuesday. >> i'm andrea roane. >>> i'm mike hydeck. good morning. glad you're here. here's monika santami. >> go ahead, howard. give me some french. >> oui, oui. weather wise, we have a good day ahead. we start with clear skies and cold temps and light winds. we finish with more clouds and higher temperatures in the 50s and a bit after breeze as well. looking at your day planner, expect sunshine this morning with the clouds rolling in here midday. temperatures will be climbing into the mid- to upper 40s by noon. then this afternoon we get to about 53 here in town

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edward, thank you. edward deicke. we appreciate that. courtney -- >> thanks very much. thanks for joining us. >> i'm ross westgate here in europe. "squawk box" is up next. we hope you have a profitable day. >>> good tuesday morning. the clock is ticking. greek lead eers are racing to secure a new international bailout while unions in the country call for a strike today. a $90 billion global deal glencore and xstrata a merging creating a powerhouse. it's the industry's largest tie-up ever. and here at home the fed chairman is on center stage. ben bernanke set to testify before congress on the state of the economy, his first comments since friday's blockbuster jobs number. it is tuesday, february 7, 2012 and "squawk box" begins right now. ♪

finally, more bad news for former democratic presidential candidate john edwards.al surrounding campaign finance violations over money used to hide a sexual affair, was delayed after his lawyers revealed edwards has a serious heart condition. now newly filed finance reports show the presidential campaign spent nearly $900,000 last year. even though he dropped out of the running in early 2008. the money went to airfare, hotel and legal fees. despite a ruling from the federal election officials that edwards still owed taxpayers more than $2 million in public matching funds. he received after he left the race. one try that is expecting in california is not welcome there. correspondent adam housley reports on new business bringing if mety of trouble. >> along california majestic coast, 250 miles north of the mexican border. sur evidences and sailors have company. >> they are moving further north. >> they're cartel smugglers, bringing drugs and illegal immigrants to the shores of malibu, ventura, santa barbara. >> they want to know coming to the country and prevent bad

. >>> well, the john edwards sex tape may never go public after all. after a lawsuit -- rather, under a lawsuit settlement between edwards' former mistress, rielle hunter and aide andrew young, copies of the tape must be destroyed within 30 days. hunter lived with young and his wife while she was pregnant with edwards' baby. she sued the youngs over the tape and other personal items. the couple claims she abandoned them in a box of trash. >>> the louisa county high school will receive millions of dollars from the federal government to help rebuild from last summer's earthquake. fema is giving the school $19 million to help rebuild. that's a little less than half of the $43 million needed to complete construction. insurance money as well as local and state funding will help pay the remaining balance. fema recently awarded millions of dollars to help rebuild the elementary school in louisa county and to homeowners in the area, as well. >>> this story might have you scratching your head. despite the warm weather we've seen, the state of maryland says almo

. >> ken edwards should know. while flying for a regional carrier several years ago, edwards almost collided with an airline he could not see. >> we were being told very loudly by this voice we were about to collide with another aircraft. >> near mid-air collisions happen more often than most people realize around the countranun around thed bay area. we tracked nmac conflicts and official faa incidents here in the bay area dating back to 2000. more than 1,000 different events in all. >> there are more of these situations that take place than the public has an awareness of. >> gabe spent 28 years with the faa. >> the faa has made an effort to try to hide these numbers in the past. >> but take a look at this. we found this inspector generals report, a report that raises serious questions about the faa's overseeing of the training and performance of pilots, pilots who have to deal with close calls between airplanes. the report says the faa has "not implemented initiatives with the greatest potential to improve safety

. >> edwards is burned over 60% of his body.rapped inside the blaze, he had wondered if his time had come. >> the fire and everything was about ten foot away from me and from all of that heat and everything it was heating me alive and i couldn't go know where it was scary and i was just wondering if i was ever going to see the next day or not. i figured this was the end. >> over the next three years, edwards undergoes a dozen surgeries. along the way he contracts an infection that ultimately claims his eyesight. despite his hardships, edwards remains positive. >> the good lord felt like it was not my time to go. i feel like i still have something to offer, to give to people. i'm blessed to be here still today. i talk to people about how important it is to not take anything for granted because you can lose everything in a flash. >> in recall, six people die in the fire. what went wrong to start this deadly blaze in the first place? turns out it's something that went unnoticed. accumulating for years. dust, polyethylene dust, a no

demandÓ al ex asesor de edward cinta.reja acordÓ en una corte de carolina del norte renunciar a la propiedad de ese polÉmico vÍdeo.. >> josÉ orozco dijo a un periÓdico de ese estado que pronto revelarÁ una nueva evidencia de las amenazas que recibiÓ de su ex compaÑero. alega que el policÍa y polÍticos lo amenazÓ con deportarlo. el caso estÁ ahora bajo investigaciÓn. >> es un escÁndalo con detalles que van en aumento diariamente, que ha forzado a diario a reimprimir para actualizar informaciÓn. una batalla de opiniÓn pÚblica. los detalles del migrante mexicano ex amante del alguacil en fotos comprometedoras. >> usted puede tener una vida privada. pero un alguacil. >> un sitio de citas para homosexuales donde detalla su anatomÍa sexual. algo que supuestamente habrÍa dado al periÓdico. >> el mensaje se perdiÓ. los americanos estÁn diciendo que es una pelea entre dos amantes, pero no es asÍ. >> en un comunicado enviado a univisiÓn, el alguacil dijo el solicitado una investigaciÓn. las conclusiones a se harÁn pÚblica de inmedi

and his former mistress will be destroyed riel hunter has settled a two-year lawsuit with former edwards aide andrew young she sued young in 2010 over the sex tape and other personal items that the couple claimed she threw away under the terms of the settlement all nine copies of this tape are to be destroyed within 30 days the legal troubles are not over for the former presidential candidate however edwards is scheduled for his own it's time to get going. to have the energy to turn a "to do" list into a memory. to put more giddy-up in our get-along. to keep stepping up even in overtime. it's time to start gellin' with dr. scholl's... ... and mix a little more hop in our hip hop. thanks to the energizing support and cushioning of dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles, your feet will feel so good... ... you'll want to get up and go. chicago with a look at today's business headlines going to the market's the dow is above 13,000 on times of signs of continued economic recovery new home sales jumped last month. everyone is watching oil prices go higher toward $109 a barrel that's a high for nin

john edwards girlfriend and one time mistress reay el hunrielle videoed it while john edwards was stillarried. the aid agreed to give up any claims to it. edwards had a baby with rielle hunter and later confessed to cheating on his wife elizabeth who died of cancer more than a year ago. >> the state of alaska has released the last batch of sarah palin's e-mails from her time as the governor there. back in 2008 when john mccain made her his running mate. sarah palin is now a fox news contributor. they left out most of the e-mails from after she became the vice presidential nominee. today's release is said to include the rest of the former governor's records from october of 08 to 2011. it has her fighting for a gas line project and frustrated over a series of ethics complaints. >> a pair of marine helicopters crashed in mid air. the question tonight, how did another training mission turn deadly? a live report next. plus forecasters with a warning ahead of a peak twister season. it's too late for the folks who live here. ahead we will tell you why a huge cleanup is now underway and what th