trying to look the part as one blog put it, she looks incredibly like lindsay lohan dressed up as elizabeth tayloris comes to us from ksnw, in wichita, kansas, in nearby harper, one wedding featured pictures of the happy couple that are simply amazing. and scary. the bride and groom had just said their i dos, when they are on a farm, they found tornadoes in the sky eight miles away. that created the back drop of a life time for incredible wedding photos. it was not only the bride's first wedding, it was her first twister, they are now off on their honey moon, hopefully in better weather. >> amazing. >>> i'm lynn berry this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning. we should get a fairly quiet drive time. for this morning, i think we will get by without too much in the rain fall department. we had some rain storms last night. in all kind of a dissipates. there is some rain south of the d.c. a mixture of sun and clouds. mostly dry this morning. showers and thunderstorms redevelop this af

trying to look the part as one blog put it, she looks incredibly like lindsay lohan dressed up as elizabeth taylor. >>> this comes to us from ksnw, in wichita, kansas, in nearby harper, one wedding featured pictures of the happy couple that are simply amazing. and scary. the bride and groom had just said their i dos, when they are on a farm, they found tornadoes in the sky eight miles away. that created the back drop of a life time for incredible wedding photos. it was not only the bride's first wedding, it was her first twister, they are now off on their honey moon, hopefully in better weather. >> amazing. >>> i'm lynn berry this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. [ female announcer ] with xfinity, you can always expect more. like more on demand shows and movies than ever. and more ways to discover them too. plus more speed from america's fastest internet provider. so you can run more devices at the same time. ♪ feel a firework [ female announcer ] and best of all, it keeps getting better. no wonder more people choose xfinity over any other provider. ♪ lo

trying to look the part as one blog put it, she looks incredibly like lindsay lohan dressed up as elizabeth taylor. i think she looks like her, actually. this comes from ksnw in wichita, kansas, in nearby harper, one wedding featured pictures of the happy couple that are simply amazing. hard to believe, actually. the bride and groom had just said their i dos, when they are walking down the aisles to find tornados in the sky eight miles away. quite a sight there. that created the backdrop for incredible wedding photos. not only the bride's first wedding it was her first twister. they're off on their honeymoon. let's hope it's better weather. >> that's good luck? >> it's amazing. even had the cowboy hat and then the field behind it. >> it does look like it's photo shopped. >> like steven spielberg was involved or something. >> i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your first stop of the day, today, on your nbc station. >>> the latest and greatest from china's young minds went on display at the robot show. the futuristic devices flew, rolled and zoomed through exhibits as enthusiasts looked on.

blogs say she looks incredibly like lindsay lohan dressed up like elizabeth taylor. i'm lynn berry.ay too early with willie geist" starts right now. >>> the nbc/"wall street journal" polls are out, and they show president obama with a slight overall edge on mitt romney but with double-digit leads among women, latinos, young people and independents. all this while joe biden was back on the trail hammering romney's economic vision for the country. how does romney reverse some of these persistent poll problems? >>> another day down for facebook as its stumbling public roll-out continues among new reports that analysts at morgan stanley weren't investors before friday's ipo that it could be a dud. the question is what's going on with facebook's stock price? we'll have a live report to try to sort through this.

elizabeth greenfield, elizabeth taylor greenfield, born in mississippi, would move to philadelphia. would sing for queen victoria in the 1850s. she would give concerts and the pro'd hav p proceeds of the concerts would go to help the families so it was a community effort to help these families. also women would disguise themselves as men and fight. now, if they were successful and got away with it, we don't know anything about them. but there are women who disguised themselves as men and fought. then there were women who worked as guide scouts and spies. lucy carter has been noted in the virginia theater as one of those guide scouts and spies, but one of the top guide scouts and spies, man or woman, in the civil war was none other than harriet tubman. she would go down to the department of south, some time in the spring or early summer of 1862. she would go behind enemy lines and establish her relationships. i'm going to refer to it as captain tubman since i did that earlier. and captain tubman in june of 1862 would lead or -- would lead a raid of 300 men from the second south carol

and we did -- we had elizabeth taylor once, which was very exciting, and she, of course, was very glamorous, and we had don johnson and melanie griffith one year, and that was quite interesting. she wrote the cutest note to the president and barbara afterwards saying, my mother never told me what i should wear to the white house, and the reason was that she had come in what she thought was a lovely little outfit. it was a gold, all gold sequins. that part was okay. it was very low and very short. >> it was a very little outfit. >> a very little outfit, and so she looked adorable in it, of course, because she had a beautiful figure, but she was very cute, and it was cute of her to write and say, you know, i didn't realize i should have -- i was maybe not quite properly dressed. >> let me ask you, because the white house, obviously, reflects the broader culture. a lot of people think that broader culture has been coarsened over the last half century, has that, in any way, found its way in the white house? how's the dress code, for example, compared to -- >> when we were there, i even noticed

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you said after you were nominated for the oscar, this was a surprise, elizabeth taylor and gregory peckknow, it's like -- i knew it was them because, at first any time anything like that happens you think some of your friends are playing a trick on you. but they have voices that i don't think you could imitate, especially gregory peck. it was scary talking to him. but i became friends with both of them and it was terrific. marlon brando called and a lot of people. it was great. >> you've been married five times. are you a hopeless romantic? >> i think so. i always wanted to -- i've always been a 50/50 people, happy and sad at once all the time. and i think i was that way in the romantic world. >> here's what i'm going to do. this is the look. this book is dedicated to the top guy and also to the guy right below it. >> those two guys, yeah. >> i thought i'll try my hand at being a cartoonist. >> i don't know if that's a good path for you. that's where you need the 10 sthou hours. >> i need 10,000 hours. >> you said about angelina that you didn't know whether you actually -- you felt like

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if you publish these photographs, they can't be anywhere near photographs of -- >> elizabeth taylor.he studio. liz was getting a million and 10% of the gross. she wanted to prove to the studio that she had the same power and publicity to sell movies as liz did. of course, liz was having a love affair. >> there was a picture of her 36th birthday which she celebrated on the set. give me the quick story. >> it was very, very sad. the only people that showed up for the birthday party were really those that were working that day. and she celebrated her 36th birthday party. it was the last day on the set. she would never return to make a motion picture. she went to a baseball game that night and two days later, three days later the studio fired her. >> you seemed to have a good relationship. you saw her a couple days before she died. >> right. >> when you saw her, what was her mental state like? >> number one, we were discussing her doing a cover for "playboy" magazine. she was resisting that. she didn't know whether she wanted to do it. look, she had no makeup on when i saw herment a very

elizabeth dowling taylor talks about paul jennings a slave who worked in the white house. here is author elizabeth dowling taylor talking about her book, "a slave in the white house." hertog in the library of congress is just under one hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the library of congress. i am john kohl, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress. the center is the reading promotion arm of the library of congress. we were created in 1977 by librarian of congress daniel boorstin to help the library of congress stimulate public interest in books and reading and literacy. we operate primarily through a couple of national networks. there are state centers for the book and in most of the state. they work with us to promote books in their respective states and in particular to promote writers and writing. we also have national reading promotion partners, many nonprofit groups and government organizations that we also work with to promote looks and reading. we are a major component in the national book festival and i hope many of you know about the n

eastern, elizabeth dowling taylor on the book a slave in the white house. paul jennings and the mountains. just before 9:00 p.m., hugh howard talks about his book mr. and mrs. madison's war. americans first couple at the second war of independence. after that, the author of james madison and the making of america. the tv in prime time all week on c-span 2. >> sunday on "q&a." >> i want each book to examine the kind of political power in america. for it to say that this is a kind of local power. seeing what a president can do in a time of great crisis. what does he do to get legislation moving? to take command in maastricht in? that is the way of examining power in a time of crisis. i said that i want to do this in full. i suppose it takes 300 pages. that is why i just said let's examine this. robert caro on the passage of power, volume four in the years of lyndon johnson. his biography of the 36th president. this weekend on c-span's "q&a." and look for our second conversation with this author on may 20. >> in a few moments, our "book tv" programming in prim

starting at 8 eastern, elizabeth dowling taylor, author of "a slave in the white house: a chronicle ofpresident madison's enslaved servant." at 8:55 author yu howard, and at 9:50 p.m., kevin getsman on his book, "james madison and the making of america." >>> bin laden was a strategically-relevant communicator with various and disparate outfits, and to a certain extent i have to confess that i had insider knowledge. while still in uniform, i worked in centcom and afghanistan, and we worked on the problem of iraq, and we knew bin laden personally was involve inside communications to try and corral and bring under control zawahiri. we knew he was making outreach early on toal shah a babb in somalia working through immediate qualms and other individuals, but we knew he was there and doing that, and as a consequence and no surprise, bin laden was relevant. >> can how has counterterrorism and national security changed in the year since the death of osama bin laden? former and current administration officials, analysts and intelligence community members continue to weigh in. see what they hav

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