. >> eleanor? >> i will single out one of the beneficiaries is marco rubio, the senator elect from florida who cuban-american young attractive charismatic, likely presidential material. >> say goodbye to the tea party. >> well, it is a question of who got on whose bandwagon. the ole real tea party person on this panel, i can attest to the fact that yes, the tea party was the biggest winner and this year they went from just being a movement to being plain stream america and bringing america back to constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets. >> thanks for clarifying all of that. >> you're welcome. >> clarence, welcome. >> i was thinking tea party but john, i chose john bohner because he is a bigger winner than the tea party because he got to be speaker and didn't have to do much work to do it because the people did most of the work for him. >> the envelope, please, monica. >> here you go. >> thank you very much. >> that jacket, i'm blind. how am i going to make it t

eleanor had always been interested in young people.because of this very warm relationship with flash, she became officially involved in causes of young people and international student work and ways of trying to get young people as part of the political process. also in doing so, because flash has skirted communism. in fact, i think he was a communist at one point. she learned a lot about communist. and the faction learned so much about communist prepared or later on in the united nations to know how to deal with them. >> thank you verythank you earlr time. >> yours look now at "the new york times" top 10 fiction hardcover books for this week. >> next, robert melson argues that environmentalismi

well, this book concentrates on the way eleanor roosevelt wrote the script for first ladies. now, every first lady since eleanor has either followed the script or hasn't followed the script, but at least they had to read the script. they've had to know about it. there are lots of books on eleanor roosevelt, but what this book does is tell what she did in the white house to make the job of first lady more than just that of a he's or somebody -- hostess or somebody that was interested, perhaps, in a cause or two. she really made the first lady ship a potent part of the american presidency. >> so was the script that she wrote giving the first lady a role to play in policy? >> the script showed what a first lady could do. the script showed that the first lady could make the job of the president's wife into one in which she could promote the administration, she could show the public that the presidency was interested in individuals. she was the public face of her husband's political program, the new deal. but because she traveled so much and because she really had an innate love o

and eleanor roosevelt. he got along surpsingly well. you have this genial figure on one side and hoover on the other. they cooperated very closely. however, eleanor roosevelt made the mistake once of referring to j. edgar hoover as stupid because he was pressing a background clearance of a white house staffer who ad bee around for years. hoover was not the kind of figure who would forget a slight and, consequently, when the army came up with a preposterous report tat eleanor roosevelt had been involved in a sexual tryst with her young protege joe lash, hoover kept this formation in his own private files to the day of his death. >> what was the story, though? was it ever proved that they had a relationship? >> no, the rmy intelligence people that provided this information tohoover had made a small error in their evings dropping. they had found -- eavesdropping. they had found eleanor roosevelt in a hotel with lashe visiting. but what they produced as proof of a tryst was young lashe's involvement with his girlfriend. he was having an aff

. >> eleanor. >> i'm in favor of the garble process. just because you think the conservative majority is going to rule -- senate's going to get there, eleanor, why not do it now? >> why eliminate the interim steps where other people get to argue it back and forth? >> it's going there anyhow. >> everything is going to be suspended until the supreme court rules. >> i wonder why candidate barack obama did not support the mandate and hillary clinton d. his position was if you make the premiums affordable you can get enough people in the pool. this is still a private insurance market, and the insurance companies are out there, they want all this business, and nobody has come up with an answer for somebody who gets sick and can't pay it. they have their freedom to not have health insurance, but who pays the bill? >> it's a great irony that now barack obama is in the position of defending hillary clinton's position on the individual mandate. look, ultimately it is going to be decided in the supreme court. the outstanding question about that is

i could see eleanor saying, what was that. as only willie brown can do. we have two cameras today. one, we brought. we had one camera. channel four, before young broadcasting. they were very formal. the reporter runs up to me. i didn't know what it meant. she said, what is your vision? i knew i was in over my head. i have tried not to repeat the mistake willie brown made. he got lucky, i hope. i figured it out and tried to impress some folks. he appointed me to the board of supervisors. i've tried to be a little more comprehensive when it comes to analyzing the pros and cons of those i'm appointing. taking less risk than brown took with me. this is an assembly of those individuals. these are people i'm reapp ointing and appointing. all i ask is that you do the public good. you represent not only the people in the room, as important as they are because they took the time to be here, but the people were not able to make it to that meeting, or that board meeting. people that are not necessarily advocates with a particular interest,benign or as appropriate as this may be. you have a du

i could see eleanor saying, what was that. as only willie brown can do. we have two cameras today.ght. we had one camera. channel four, before young broadcasting. they were very formal. the reporter runs up to me. i didn't know what it meant. she said, what is your vision? i knew i was in over my head. i have tried not to repeat the mistake willie brown made. he got lucky, i hope. i figured it out and tried to impress some folks. he appointed me to the board of supervisors.

so did eleanor.i think she changed in many ways but i don't know of jewish groups particularly taking her help for intervening with roosevelt. i know she tried you know on racial issues. i think she tried to get him to support something you would think as safe as anti-lynching legislation. he wouldn't do that. thank you professor. >> thank you, bob. [applause] >> this event was hosted by politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. for more information visit politics -- pros.com. >> hugh pope where did you get the title "dining with al qaeda"? it was better than eating chinese with al qaeda which apparently some people thought would need -- let it become an episode in the book, one chapter where i'm in riyadh and very soon after september 11 i was sitting down with a missionary from the al qaeda camps where most of the canon fodder struck the world center and washington. the dinner started off with him saying i'm going to kill you. i said i assure you that is not necessary. i speak arabic if that

eleanor satterfield, richard satterfield, tiara gholston, amari ghlston, darryon faulkner, and daylon faulkner. a memorial may by this community outside the homes that burned has grown steadily in the hours since the fire that took those six lives. neighbors knew the victims home as a place to find a friendly ile and a helping hand. victims include great grandparents, their daughter, and three children. >> they were just pretty and beautiful children. i mean, and to see six bodies to die in a fire around the holidays is just overwhelming for me. >> our friends and family. that's the strongest thing we have right now. god bless us. that's all we have right now. and just hold on. that is all we can do. just hold and keep each other close. >> this is a neighborhood that is heartbroken this morning. those grandparents have lived here for about 20 years. as for what caused this fire, authorities do not know. they do not think there were any working smoke detectors in the home at the time of the fire. george lettis, wbal-tv 11 news. >> thank you. dangerously cold temperatures of the last fe

i want to talk about influence and just get your opinion whether franklin listened to eleanor because traditionally when it's her that eleanor was far more sympathetic than her husband to the jewish cause. >> i couldn't find much evidence to that. i think the evidence may be she was neither of the rules of concern with these issues before they got to washington. both of them have certain social anti-semitic tendencies. i don't know of a jewish group particularly seeking her help or intervening with racial issues i think she tried to get them to support something you think is as safe as antilunging legislation. thank you. [applause] >> this event was hosted by politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c.. for more information, visit politics-prose.com. malcolm coyot welcome author of what the bald salles and david graham author of the devil and sherlock holmes discuss respective collections of essays and their writing careers of the new yorker. barnes and noble and a dark city hosted this 45 minute event. [applause] >> thank you for coming. think the two of you for coming. the diffi

eleanor and richard scatterfield were killed. the couple's 26-year-old granddaughter and her three children also perished. and the youngest victim was just one year old. investigators are still working to find out what started that fire. there have been 18 fire-related deaths in baltimore this year. >>> a judge has ordered a mental evaluation for an arlington man that federal agents say made threats to explode pipe bombs on the metro system. a facebook friend of 25-year- old euness tipped off officials about the posting regarding pipe bombs at rush hour. one former high school classmate that we spoke to says he's not surprised. >> like when 9/11 happened, he clapped about it in his class. >> reporter: clapped about it and said what? >> "that's what they get. " and then they beat him up. >> he is scheduled to be in court next week for a hearing. >>> if you live in montgomery county, we have important information. you will have a new tool to help you survive the winter. see how you can track the progress of snowplows in your neighb

they have been identified as eleanor and richard satterfield, their daughter, and their children, amari, dareon, and daylon. >> family is what we have right now. we just have to hold on. that is all we can do. we have to keep each other close. >> relatives of the victims had a harder time coming to grips with the tragedy. >> to burn up in a fire, that is so heinous to hear. we can just hope and pray for the togetherness, the unity, and the oneness for the family. >> and the firefighters were left traumatized by what they found. >> to be confronted with six lives lost is very devastating for our fire fighters to confront that. it is something we never look forward to. >> investigators are still looking into the cause and it is unknown whether any of the homes had working smoke detectors. it is not what is on the family's minds right now. >> they were beautiful children. to see six bodies to die in a fire around holidays is just overwhelming for me. >> 30 people were displaced by this fire and they are being helped by the red cross. officials say as far as the six people who died, the mos

washington, secretary of state hillary clinton will mark world human rights day by presenting the eleanoroosevelt human rights award to three recipients for their work to end discrimination. today marks the 13th annual international animal rights day when activists encourage people around the world to treat animals with respect. >>> and one of 48 rare copies of the emancipation proclamation signed by abraham lincoln will go on the auction block in new york city. the historic document was once owned by robert f. kennedy and could go for as much as $1.5 million. >>> all day long, you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with nbc "nightly news." >>> and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. matt lauer goes one-on-one with the head of a website that reportedly turned down a $6 billion bid from google. >>> and olympic gold medalist sarah hughes skates live on the rockefeller center ice rink. >>> now keep it on this channel for continuing local

richard and eleanor satterfield and her three children all died in that fair.y firefighters will be back in the family's neighborhood on home wood avenue making ckhpsure everyone a working smoke detector and install free ones for those who don't. they will also offer a free home fire safety inspection. results of investigation into last week's five alarm fire in mount vernon suggests an electrical problem may have sparked the blaze. now as jeff hager reports questions remain over whether businesses there to reopen. >> reporter: it appears the fire climbed the four story building through the ventilation shaft guting indian restaurant and neighbors offices. surveying the smoke and water damage at donna's coffee bar. >> for 8 hours they were putting out a fire and water kept screaming down. >> ;á:vreporter: the owner isn sure if she'll ever be able to reopen again. >> it's overwhelming. every time i came into the and see d look around it and smell it, feel the cold and the emptiness of it. >> reporter: the historic baltimore's cultural district has had many faces

neighbors who live on there tight-knit street say eleanor satterfield and her husband of 50 years richard here on home wood avenue çbsñfor mor than 30 years. the fire claimed the couple, their granddaughter and three great canned children. the family gnbis just devastat over this. >> we try $oto get together wh we can. spent suchers together spent birth days together. >> reporter: investigators still have no cause for this fire. dozens of homeless by this horrific fire the red cross is doing everything they can to help. on saturday city firefighters are going to head to the neighborhood checking homes for working smoke detectors they -  will install them for free in any homes that don't have any. a fire safety check they will do it on saturday. >>> you already know it's going to be another bitterly cold night here in the area. for the second x#oday in a row baltimore city has killed a code blue weather alert. shelters are going to extend their hours to help people get off the streets and out of the cold. >>> and iúgif you're looking the temperatures out there tonight you can see why we

rich and and eleanor satterfield their granddaughter and three great children died in that fire. a wake will be held at 10:00 a.m. with a funeral service to follow at 11:00. >>> the y of central maryland head start program serves 600 needs he families in baltimore county. hopefully the families christmas got a little brighter. tim rutherford explains how. >> reporter: 8 days till christmas and time for the annual y of central maryland's head start programs holiday extravaganza. it may be stretching it a get but this toy and clothing give away for baltimore county residents certainly does filet need in the community. this year in particular has been a rough one for their clients. >> we had a father just lost his job a month ago his wife is terminally ill. makes children's christmas a little bit happier. >> i was talking with a mom walking up the hill. i'm not sure why i'm here if you have something that will help make something better for my family i'll stand in that line. >> reporter: that line was impressive. filling the halls here and then some. the veteran volunteers here know

richard and eleanor salterfield, their granddaughter tiara and three young children. a neighbor who lived in this burned-out end unit didn't want to have to appear on camera and she did, however, tell us her terrible story. >> got and i could hear my neighbors next door talking. they were not hollering or screaming or anything like that and seemed like she was stilling the grandchildren to come there and then all of the smoke started coming in to our whole and downstairs were full. we would leave out the back. come around front, the front of the house will go on fire. and also -- . >> that must have been terrifying. >> it was. it was devastating. >> and may neighbors, six of them. there were the best neighbors they had. >> i really don't know. all i thaseemed like to me like he was trying to get them together or something. i don't know. jew. >> reporter: however, there is nothing that leads them to believe it was suspicious. in baltimore, karen gray houston, fox 5 news. >>> how low will it go? the cold coupled with the winds making life miserable for a lot of you and

. >> reporter: eleanor was bernie madoff's secretary for 25 years. and watched mark and his brother grow up. >> i always knew that mark wore his heart on his sleeve and he wanted to be liked. that was just his personality. >> reporter: i certainly liked him. people who were around him, couldn't help it, he was so jubilant and he was so -- he was so sweet. >> reporter: 46-year-old mark madoff took his life saturday. on the second anniversary of his father's arrest. a date on which his life of luxury and privilege became one of torment and shame. his father-in-law discovered the body hanging from a pipe on a dog leash. his 2-year-old son nick asleep in another room of the new york apartment. mark had sent an e-mail to his wife, stephanie, saying, i love you, send someone to take care of nick. how do you think he could have gotten to the point where he would hang himself with his 2-year-old son in a nearby room? >> i don't know. i don't want to go there. it's hard for me to go there, to think that, you know, but it had to have been unrelenting. for him

or eleanor roosevelt and these amazing people.al heros are the heros that we live with every day. that's vital. i should tell you do you want to talk about the hero who i spent my time with, my son, my oldest son jonas. this is the moment that i gave him the book. i've waited eight years. it's called "heros for my son" i'm telling my son. he doesn't care about eleanor roosevelt or rosa parks. he's looking through the athletes. he finds roberto clemente. you know what being a famous athlete, nothing. it doesn't make you a better person, nicer, you know what selling a lot of books and being on the best seller list, nothing. doesn't make me smarter. it means people read the books. roberto clemente is in there not because he was a baseball player, because there was a earthquake in nicaragua. he sends three planes for help. they were stolen. he was so determined to make sure the plane gets there, the fourth one, he gets on the plane. it crashes in the ocean. killing everyone on board. he's not a hero because he died. he's a hero becaus

victims, however, according to neighbors the people that were killed in the house were richard and eleanor satterfield, both believed in their 70s along with their granddaughter and her three children, the oldest 9, the youngest, only 1 years old. a tragedy that has shaken this neighborhood. >> reporter: the depth of the grief is bottomless, loved ones gone, the home that neighbors say the family lived in for more than 30 years burned and broken. flames swept through the home before 5:00 this morning. the firefighters got there and the front of the house was burning along with four other homes on either side. other folks got out. but the elderly couple in the middle house, granddaughter and three of their great grandchildren did not. >> i just smelled smoke. when i came outside the house was enflamed in a lot of fire. >> where do you live? >> 2307 homewood. and the house, i'm assuming the fire started with the miller house, that's where my neighbors live and nobody came out. >> reporter: high winds hampered firefighters' efforts with 45 mile-per-hour gusts. when crews got inside they found

. >> reporter: friends identified the victims as richard and eleanor satterfield. the homeowners. also inside the home, their granddaughter and her three children. right now they are looking for clues in exactly how this tragedy started. city fire says the flames swept through this two-story home before 5:00 this morning. when firefighters got there the front of the house was burning along with four other homes on either side. high winds hampered firefighters' efforts as there were 45 mile-per-hour wind gusts. crews got inside and found all six family members dead on the first floor. neighbors say the family has been a fixture on homewood for more than 30 years and this is just a terrible loss. >> i seen the smoke coming from my chimney in my bathroom. there was nothing in my basement but smoke through my pipes. my daughter came downstairs, opened the front door and said, their house is on fire. that's when i was just like, get my grandson, y'all get out of the house. >> it's a tragedy, around christmastime. i grew up with her. i known them for all my life. like, it's just crazy.

neighbors who live in the tight knit community say eleanor slatterfield and her husband lived here on homewood avenue for more than 30 years. the fire claimed the couple, their grad daughter and three great grandchildren. >> hurts your heart. it hurts your heart because this is somebody that everybody that lives around here, we seen them every day. and it hurts. >> dozens have been left homeless by the fire and the red cross is doing everything it can to help. on saturday, city fire fighters will head to the neighborhood to check homes for working smoke detectors. they will install them for free in any home that doesn't have one and even do a fire safety check as well. >>> two minute after five right now. here's breakdown of the house fire in the united states according to the u.s. fire association firefighters. they respond to more than 1 million fires a year, 75% of those fires are house fires. three,000 people die in fires every year with thousands more injured. most common causes of home fires chose stove fires and space heaters. 90% of house fires can be contained by one fire spr

the fact is, eleanor, i don't think washington should be doing this at all. i think you could in fact cut government spending but not by saying we're going to cut this program or that program. go to the government workforce, go in to the federal agencies just as you would if you were a large corporation, you say, we want to see you realize savings of x percent, you tell me where you're going to cut and how you're going to do it. then you'll get sensible changes and sensible cuts. but if you try to have one size fits all and somebody in washington sitting in a bureaucratic cubby hole or even you up in congress decide which program have to be cut, i think you're going to end up making the wrong decision. >> this is what was so good about the stimulus it directed a lot of money to state and almost governments. that was -- that was economist said very stimulitive. actually why the economy didn't get out of the recession more was because the stimulus wasn't big enough. that's what many economists on both sides of the aisle said. so now we -- >> republican economis

now that's taking on the states to eleanor's yes. who i know a little bit is an insane person i mean he he should be locked up preemptively so that we're all safer people and he's got a big jihad against drugs of all sorts for a lot of different reasons and and the thing is people are calling him out on it people on the sort of fringes of drug policy debates will point out hey look in california you can force california laws states are under no obligation to enforce federal laws states are supposed to support state law says a constitution that kind of out of the concept debate is that you know federal law supersedes state law but we don't have to that would just you know if it doesn't and when that is when you talk about bombers but but states are not under obligations to send their own cops to enforce a federal statute about how health care companies should behave it doesn't make any sense the good news is that when the feds threaten to arrest people the feds only have fifty five hundred do you know what action that is going to say

answering some of the million plus questions which flooded in he's not eleanor because of the event. not quite truth or dare in his annual q. and a session the russian prime minister was given a choice and some of the questions were rather daring like the one about former oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky who's currently serving. and eight year term in prison for fraud and tax evasion it was a question that got put in going. just like a character in a famous russian movie i'm sure that a thinks places in prison because he's accused of stealing tax evasion and fraud but with a new charges he faces is about stealing hundreds of billions for him his company security chief is in prison for murder they didn't like the mayor of nifty new guns so they killed him then there was another woman in moscow who refused to sell her little stool to them and they killed her when they didn't like the hit man they hired he's dead as well. another sore spot was the issue of recent ethnic clashes between russian that tickles and people from the north caucasus that the government failed to prevent the prime

and abraham lincoln or eleanor roosevelt,an lucille ball, but the real heros are the ones we live with every day.y and that is vital. you want to talk about the herol who i spent my time with is my son. my old oest son, jonas, i wrote the book for him. this is a moment i've waitedo eight years for, right?ed it's called heros for my son, and this is it, i'm presenting it to him, and he doesn't care about eleanor roosevelt. he doesn't care about rosa parks. he goes looking for the athletes in the book.r and he's flipping through, and he finds a picture of robertohe yes clementi. i tell my son it means nothing to me being a famous athlete. it doesn't make you a betterhlet person, doesn't make you nicer. i say to him, you know what selling a lot of books means? nothing.s a it doesn't make me smarter,e nicer, anything. it means people buy the book.es' so he's reading about roberto, and he's in the book not becausp he played baseball, in there. because there was an earthquake in nicaragua. and roberto sent three planeloads of food and medicine over to the victims. all three planeloads werend

. >> my prayers go out to the victims as eleanor and richard satterfield. their granddaughter tiara gallston and three children. amari, nine, darryon three, and daelyn one. @%re investigators ifted through the debbis for most of today. but there is still no word on -hat caused the fire that claimed six lives. in ast baltimore, kathleen cairns, fox 44 news at 10:00. >> well, firefighters have bben through a lot in the last eight days. two sepaaate five alarm firess and of course, today's tragedy. %-physically can be fixed with r but as joel d. smith reports, it is not ttat simple hen it comes to the effect on the oul. %-tell the story.jjckets, faccs in more than a wwek, three major fires, tested firefighters in many wayy. first a fiie on the block. %-sending people fleeing to the3 streets and jumppng from buildinggto building.3 >> then less than 12 hours both fires, five alarm. charres now worst of all, this tragedy on homewood. >> it takes an emotional and physical toll. >> physical deeands are bvious. tough hours, strain on the bodd. but they say they ccn

. >>> up next, robert shogan explores franklin and eleanor roosevelt's decision not to intercede on the part of europe's jewish population during the lead up to world war ii, despite having close jewish and fighters. the author contends that these advisers had political thinking and hesitation to stir resentment among american jews kept fdr from acting on the police coming from the larger jewish community. robert shogan discusses his book at politics and prose bookstore in washington, d.c.. the program's love all over 15 minutes -- 50 minutes. >> i want to thank those of you who are here for coming and i want to thank looking ahead those of you who are attuned and on the model public surface television c-span. thank you for watching and i hope you will find reason to stay with us. i also want to thank another institution, politics and prose bookstore, for hosting this event coming and i want to say a special word of appreciation for carla cohen, co-founder of politics and prose, who has many of you know, lost her brief fight against cancer only about ten days ago along with her partner,

they include eleanor satterfield, richard satterfield, tiara gholston, amari ghlston, darryon faulkner, and daylon faulkner. a memorial outside the burnt- out homes has grown steadily in the hours since the fire. neighbors knew the victims home as a place to find a friendly smile and a helping hand. the six telecoms -- the six victims include three children, all under the age of 10. >> there were just beautiful children. to see bodies die in a fire around the holidays is just overwhelming for me. >> family is the strongest thing we have. god bless us. just hold on. that is all we can do. >> what a tragedy. so far authorities have not determined what caused this fire. life in east baltimore, george lettis, wbal-tv 11 news. >> freezing temperatures outside are making things difficult for firefighters and anyone and everyone who ventures outside. three people in maryland have died of hypothermia. it only takes a few minutes to pull yourself at risk. hypothermia cases are already starting to trickle into the emergency room. people sometimes forget about covering their faces, their noses, c

edith north rogers along with eleanor roosevelt had put the fear of god into the navy admirals back in december of 1941. so the navy supported the bill that passed, and it was signed into law on 30, july, 1942. now, guiding the creation of these new women's military branches was the women's advisory council. members of the -- they were civilian educators who represented the five sister colleges which included mount holyoke college in south hadley, massachusetts, and snook college in northampton, massachusetts, where women marines and women accepted for voluntary emergency service were trained. the women of the advisory council were some of the brightest and most well educated women in the country. the chairman of the council was virginia gildersleeve, dean of varner college who was overheard at one point in the deliberations regarding the acceptance of women in the navy, she said: now, if navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, either of those certain admirals -- the older admirals -- would certainly have greatly preferred them to women. [laughter] in november of 1942,

and eleanor satterfield, who die in the flames, recently smelled the odor of gas. >> they didn't find where it came from and left it at that. >> reporter: raymond obra hi is the one who leads the city's fire investigation. >> you cannot leave any stone unturned. there is always something to find in there. and you have to find it. >> he wouldn't give specifics about the homewood fire. but did speak about what goes into these investigations. >> finding a cause when all that is left is burnt debris. >> because you get that -- to that point of origin. sometimes have you to excavate. sometimes with hand shovels, hand tools. then we work the least to the most damage. and much of the time, that gets us to our point of origin. >> reporter: he says starting the investigation is critical. >> the further you separate the time of the fire from the beginning of the investigation, the harder it is. we're lucky in the city. we staff our fire investigation bureau, 24/7. >> while loved ones wait with a cause, they lived with one that meant so much. >> it ain't hit me yet. >> the fire department says t

. >>> family members had a wake for richard and eleanor satterfield, their granddaughter, tiara, and her three children, will be held the 22nd, at empowerment prim rose church. at 10:00 a.m. the funeral will be at 11:00 a.m. >>> the cause of the fire remains under investigation. for information on how to donate to the satterfield family, log onto wjz.com, and click on news and the local tab. >>> there will be no tax increase for most americans on new year's day. president obama and congress worked out a deal to extend the bush-era tax cuts for another two years. joel brown reports for wjz. the president made the agreement with republican leaders, even though it passed. not everyone in washington is happy about it. >> here we go. [ applause ] >> reporter: this president signature turns the tax cut compromise into law. the deal is hammered out with republicans. prevents a new year's day tax hike for millions of americans. >> this is real money. it's going to make a real difference in people's lives. >> reporter: the house approved the plan late thursday, after a marathon of debate in c

killing eleanor and richard satterfield, an elderly couple that friends say were the heart of the neighborhood. along with their daughter granddaughter and three great, great grandchildren, ages 3, 8 and 1. >> mr. and mrs. satterfield, lovely people. heaven is welcoming new angels. >> reporter: it made firefighting tough. spread to two row homes. those who saw the flames will never forget them. >> i have more smoke in my house but fire. but the other two houses were in flames. everything was just on fire. >> reporter: the fire department is unsure whether the home had working smoke detectors. investigators are still working to determine the cause. >> exactly what started the fire, we don't know at this point. our fire investigators and police detectives are here on the scene and they have begun their preliminary investigation into the cause of the fire. >> the department also responded to concerns that a nearby fire company was not on the seen due to rotating closures. noting that the response was quick, at 3 minutes. >> i don't think there are words to describe how devastating this is for the

d them as eleanor and richard satterfield, their daughter and her three children. >> they were beautiful children. i mean, and to see six bodies die in a fire around the holidays and -- it's just overwhelming for me. >> family members of the victims can't believe their loved ones are gone. firefighters also had a tough time gripping the situation once the fire was out. >> to be confrond with six lives lost. it totally devastating. it's very difficult for our firefighters to con front that. it's something we never looked forward to. >> in the meantime, fire inveigators are looking into the cause. relatives said the family did use space heaters in their home, it's too early to speculate. it's also unknown if any of the homes had working smoke detectors. >> to burn up in a fire, it's so heinous here. can you just hope and pray for the togetherness, the unity and the oneness for the family right now. >> the red cross is helping about 30 other people who have been displaced by the fire damage. >>> drug use is on the rise among teenagers. drugs are more common than cigarette smoking. a new sur

they have been identified as eleanor and richard satterfield, their daughter, and her children. >> they were just beautiful children. for them to die in a fire around the holidays, it is overwhelming for me. >> family members cannot believe their loved ones are gone. firefighters also had a tough time with the situation once it was out. >> to be confronted with six lives lost is devastating. is very difficult for our firefighters to confront that. it is something we never look forward to. >> firefighters and investigators are looking into the cause. they did use space heaters in their home, but it is too early to speculate. it is unknown if any of the homes had working smoke detectors. >> to burn in a fire, that is so heinous. you can just hope and pray for the togetherness, the unity of the family right now. >> this neighborhood is certainly in morning. fire officials say the victims most likely died from smoke inhalation and burns. as the cause remains under investigation, they say that these six deaths, 80 below have died in the city this year because of fires. the red cross is helpi

probably the most delete young person in america, his cousin had been president, mary eleanor and had done to all the right schools never working today in his life. why did he choose these people? during the depression all four stood up and actively took on wall street. that is something that impressed roosevelt. explained reversed weekend road to the sec that had the first modern regulatory system as we know it and hugo black subpoenaed said telegram which was the email of the day of everybody who had sent any telegram to washington d.c. in the hopes of finding embarrassing material on corporate executives which he did then use that on the floor of the senate. he was famous by saying wall street and big business were corrupt. jackson went head-to-head with andrew mellon secretary of treasury and one of the richest in the country and attacks fraud trial that put the national gallery in washington but that was the establishment and embody the financial system and douglas just gleefully took on never betty and threatened to take over the new york stock exchange and sufficiently scare th

the book by harriet eleanor smith. >> well, it's true that mark twain didn't want to complete autobiographyd because he wanted to be able to speak his whole, frank mind. that has not been respected. there had been earlier editions that had published much of the material, but the editing challenges was one of the main reasons it's taken this long. he left us material and it was difficult to figure out how to put it all together. >> again, we've been sending mark twain quotes out today, facebook and twitter. nothing goes over better with the crowd. mark twain on the u.s. congress. he says readers, suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of congress and then says, but i repeat myself. how relevant are his -- >> well, he is another version of that, too, which is congress is the only native criminal class in america. he certainly took aim at government and he was particularly inferenced about the war of expansion in the philippines. he felt that it was basically a false pretext that they were fighting there, that there were commercial interests at stake and he felt that the gover

the list of one time "dupes" liberals who changed, i humphrey bogart and eleanor roosevelt, paul douglas, john do we. from hollywood, lucille ball, james cagney, olivia they havilland who played melanie in gone with the wind. edward g. robinson, melvyn douglas and a later anti-communist crusader and conservative republican, president ronald reagan who admitted in 1946 that he had been duped as well. democrats on the other hand, anti-communist democrats and liberals from the beginning who were never duped and right away recognized the danger the communists opposed. i will surprise you here. the first president who had to deal with this, founding of the american communist party was who? woodrow wilson. woodrow wilson may have been the man of the left but he was an anticommunist and stridently anti bolshevik. he described as the bolsheviks as barbarians, tyrants and terrorists. exact words. harry truman, same thing. jfk warned us about our atheist faux and godless communist conspiracy. they realized the communists were not their friends and went after the car as they held here. they attacke

edith rogers along with eleanor roosevelt had put the fear of god into the navy admirals back in december of 1941. so the navy supported the bill passed and was assigned into law in 1942. now, your guiding the creation of these new women in military branches was the women's advisory council. members of the worst civilian educators who represented the five sisters colleges which included mount holyoke college and head of the massachusetts and smith college in hampton massachusetts where women marines exited for voluntary emergency service for trained. the women of the advisory council were the brightest and most well-educated women in the country. the chairman of the council was virginia come dean of the call which was overheard at one point in the deliberations regarding the acceptance of women in the navy. she said if the navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, either of the admiral scott the older had models would certainly have greater preferred them to the women. november, 1942, the waac and army chief of staff, george c. marshall, found out exactly what it meant to no

[laughter] if it reminds me of choice eliot and eleanor, she said which was about the biggest praisecould possibly hope for fast and event we got to have a wonderful conversation about george eliot. as a writer it doesn't get better than that. and you will also appreciate when she introduced me coming and i of course hope she would mention george eliot, she said instead it's nice to have mary kay of stairs. she is usually in the children's section with someone in her lap. [laughter] that measure the importance matched my daughter's assessment who knew the reading was a big deal because the biggest celebrity in her life, her story teacher came to the reading. [laughter] carless encouraged us by her example and support to care deeply about what we do and i got a note recently from alice mcdermott four its a menacing and i am going to read it because it is lovely. i think most sitting in the office before the reading it's been my experience some booksellers use this time to worry out loud or maybe prepare the writer for the worst. the weather is often discussed, rain, snow or exceptiona