price wise, items vary, there are lower price items and man tells and fireplaces that -- mantels andireplaces that cost thousands of dollars. >> from her place with her and matthew. >> he has done work for a man named donald trump. >> did stuff for trump. some of his buildings. >> bill paxton. >> and bill paxton. >> joan rivers he has quite the list. >> capitalist of the week. >> governor christie was in a good mood, i was able too ask him important questions. >> what is the trouble with trump. >> i was in this, went 48 hours he had nuance backed off in the primary. xt1 underline >> hi mr. snake. >> you are a long boy. >> you are a nasty looking boy. >> oh, my god. >> you are a bad snake. >> this video happened in alabama. if you see a ?ai snake coiled u, don't get close to it with your camera. >> he bit at my phone. >> i am in south plainfield, i am chasing governor christie, he has been avoiding questions from the press over last couple of days, he was in a good mood today, i asked him questions about the race between trump and hillary, the first was about trump's speech. >> isis t

host: the fireplace?enator mcconnell: well, it has fireplaces, which some of which actually still work but we don't use them anymore because of portraits like henry clay here on the wall. that was a contemporary portrait of clay. and smoke is not good for old portraits. clay would have been thrilled. he and jackson were, i would argue, basically -- their rivalry began the modern two-party system. they disagreed on absolutely everything. clay took jackson on directly one time in 1832. jackson won overwhelmingly. they argued and debated. and that was the beginning of the whig party under clay which became the republican party. and, of course, jackson was a prominent democrat. and i think clay would have enjoyed the fact that since my predecessor is from tennessee, when i moved into this office and replaced him, i took jackson down, sent him back to the museum, and put henry clay up. so clay finally bested jackson , in at least something. host: the other portraits are from -- senator mcconnell: republican pr

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he would plaster and redo the fireplace, chimney, ceiling. way, it was all done and brilliant colors. sometime in the 20th century, they whitewash the whole thing. today the studio school is trying to raise the money, they now have a lot of money, they are trying to raise the money and the day they restored it will be fabulous to walk into. if you look closely at the fireplace and chimney you'll notice the flames rising up. look closely at the flames and you will see devils, which is, and i don't know what else you are going to see. to the ceiling, here is the chimney. and the a smirking son rays of the sun cut across the ceiling. , here'sg the clouds just one view. i do not know if you can see that as well. there is a ingrained. and what looks like a small shark. what is holding onto the stingray is a nude man who looks like he is going through the flames of hell. a fortress probably. whoe is another nude male looks like he is going through the fires of hell. withould line the floor gertrude vanderbilt's party and trip. the day they restore

the bed is gonna be on a motor that you can turn the bed, push a button, and you could face the fireplace, or it can shift around, and you can have the beautiful view of the lake. >> it's full service. it's full service. [ both laugh ] >> by the way, every bedroom in this house has a jacuzzi, even our servants'. >> we are now walking into your closet. do you have, like, any idea at all how many square feet this area is alone that's part of your closet? >> well, i know it's larger than most people's homes. >> yes. >> probably 1,500 square feet at least, maybe 2,000? >> yeah, it's big. and i'm seeing something over there that looks like it's two doors with gold, and it looks like it opens, which means it's probably an elevator. >> oh, you're good. >> it's amazing. well, you know, i'm the property man. [ both laugh ] do you ever, like, pull in here one day and say, "why -- why do i need all this for?" >> you know, actually, the house isn't, like, as important to me anymore as it used to be. >> of course. >> you know, since we lost our daughter... >> understood. >> ...we kind of put it like o

hey, what caught my eye was the fireplace. mean, come on, rving is all about adventure, and family, and like i say, romance. i mean, we all need that, right? >> chris: of course.

how sad is that you it is a quirky wonderful house, he had a fireplace built with a window over it sothe smoke could go on either side and he could see snow falling when flames were coming up, he adored the house, he had a loopy family life. they had three dogs and twain names one i know, the other you know and the third don't know. he also enjoyed acting with his daughter susie, they had a tiffany drawing room, 7 servants, it was never enough for twain. the poor missouri boy wanted everything, and a literary other. he wanted to be a family man but also a poker playing rogue. he was so full of conflicting desires, he liked down-home folk and wanted to be rich as a rockefeller or vanderbilt. he wrote few can understand prosperity. and he was a magnet for conmen. and james w page, could persuade a fish to take a walk with him. twain was losing his shirt. a lethal combination for an investor, moonshot enthusiasm or patience for details. a profit loss statement that even his daughter could understand. gene was two years old at the time. twain thought the following invention would change t

he stopped in chelsea, london, jimlook at three- six-fireplaces. >> chelsea is on sale. mean, francine? >> chelsea is having a fire sale. francine: overall, what does that mean? >> overall what that means is -- dean and tom were talking about their functions of feedback from people selling on volatility. a major view that as threat. francine: does mark carney have to decrease interest rates or do something bigger this week? adam posen: i think he is trying to decrease but i don't think we should kid ourselves. of oure are downgrades ability to pay debts. if it is a context of feeding a further pound decline, there may be limits to how far they can go. if they are going into recession in the u.k. and i'm not going into contents is they are, then a kind and interest rates will be enough. personified in the free speech of the peterson institute, are people more concern versus a group of economists who say this will work out. gentle taken a more path, where is the debate as we go into monday? think there is much debate on the u.k. side. anybody paying attention to the so-cal

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he had a fireplace built with a window over it so he could see snow falling while the flames were coming up. he adored this house. they had a family, loopy family life. they had three dogs, and twain named one i know, another dog you know and the third dog was don't know. [laughter] he also enjoyed acting with his daughter susie. they were rich. they had a tiffany drawing room. the family had seven servants including a butler and a coachman, but it was never enough for twain. the poor missouri boy wanted everything. he wanted to be a funny writer but also to be a literary author. he wanted to be a family man, but he also wanted to be a poker-playing rogue. he was so full of conflicting desires. he liked down home folk, and he also wanted to be rich as a rockefeller or a vanderbilt. he wrote: few of us can stand prosperity, another man's, i mean. [laughter] and he was a magnet for con men. what a talker he is, he wrote of the inventer, james w. page. he could persuade a fish to come out and take a walk with him. [laughter] so twain was losing his shirt. [laughter] he had a lethal combinat

original detail, huge fireplace...have two more of those-- one in the den, one in the master bedroom. you should turn this place into your restaurant. can't be more elegant. well, you know, that's all jessie. she's got the sense of style. she's got an eye. jess? maybe she's out. no, she had no plans to... ( moaning ) jessica?

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. >> in that wonderful big room were the fireplace and roundtable and discussion took place. >> germmyoccupied. >> it was an important to stalin politically to have the conference in yalta? >> absolutely. he understood there were people who would like to get rid of him. all paranoids are, he is suspicious. >> even towards zoya. >> probably they didn't trust me too much because i was too friendly with the americans to the first time in teheran. >> goodwill among the allies quickly dissipating. and the 63-year-old president roosevelt was falling ill. >> i have seen those eyes and i was mesmerized. it was absolutely clear in his mind but i saw that he was suffering. >> yalta would be his last meeting with churchill and stalin. he'd not live to see victory in europe nor the collapse of the anti-hitler alliance. may 1945. as american and british troops invaded germany from the west, the red army ruthlessly pounded hitler's capital from the west. nickolai entered the city on the front lines. >> translator: the street fighting was just horrible. fire was coming from every window. germans had

. >> reporter: the living room has two limestone fireplaces and french doors facing the property. >> put your finger across there. there's actually two different techniques to feel like leather and then a plastic. this feels like leather wallpaper, but it's actually individual squares applied one- by-one. large. >> does it smell? >> yes. >> reporter: this room what walnut conceals the tv. this kitchen is glad with subway tile with the large island that feels like leather. we took the custom-made staircase to the 2nd level, and we met lynn stephens from douglas element. >> you see many beautiful homes, but this one i think is a feeling of intimacy and luxury. >> this is his dressing room, and this is hers. they thought to put in garment bag hanging rods. >> reporter: there's access to a terrace. >> there's a lovely feeling to >> it's a fabulous lounge bath. it's heaven. >> reporter: the indoor saline poolroom provides plenty of light to simulate the outdoors, or you can swim outside or sit poolside in the cabana. it's a two-bedroom guest home, all state of the art. to live large in gr

the chimneys had not then proper youee cleaned and clearly would use these in fireplaces all the timethis one happened to be in the chimney. at that time, the house had a cedar roof. the next thing you know, you are off to the races. they called in slaves from the field and were able to empty some of the second floor, but most of it was lost, including 's project. even today, we know little about badly for the house was damaged. his wife and grandchildren had to move out. years tolmost two rebuild the house. but the final result was the far grander impressive, some might call it pretentious house than the one before. even when they lived in the visit andrewould and rachel jackson. lafayette came when he was traveling to the united states. aaron burr came after he was vice president. martin van buren, james k. polk on house, especially during the presidential years, the house was filled with visitors all the time. if you were a dignitary coming to visit, you would have come to the front door because you were an important person. you would have been greeted by a short woman named hannah

president's plane doesn't have an organ or 15-foot mirrored bar or in private quarters two bedrooms and a fireplace sales in one year. about three times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. >> i'm telling you rock 'n' roll is no different than ibm, xerox, sara lee, chevrolet, supply and demand, the same business. >> rock 'n' roll had been a gritty novelty business. it was not the center of the world in the '50s and '60s. in the '70s it becomes the main event. it has repercussions in all sort of positive and negative ways. >> the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million. now the gross of the tour is in the region of $11 million. so -- yeah, it's a living. >> it was so decadent and over the top and money just -- whoo -- being thrown against the wall. >> feel like a hypocrite, if you are invoking the idea of young people. bouncing the idea of young people. taking young people's money and taking it and putting it in your pocket. really what you are is a middle-aged family man. it is only the hypocrisy that i'm worried about. >> bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock 'n

think of the fireplace you got the wood in there, paper in between, if you don't have a match it's not to light. same thing here, the sun that's the match. if we get the sun this is what the radar will look like in the late afternoon and evening hours on sunday. as far as impact scale tomorrow, heavy downpours by tomorrow morning, a break by midday and heavy thunderstorms possible by the evening hours. storm prediction center is concerned about lightning downpours and strong gusty winds. winds could exceed 60 miles per hour. they put hail and tornados in the moderate category. that's rare for the delaware and lehigh valleys. you don't get tornados very often. they continue to mention that word in their discussion. today, cloudy, stray afternoon thunderstorm possible west of philadelphia. 85 in allentown. millville, 80. dover, 80. cape may, 75 degrees. poconos clouds and sun, warm and sticky, 76 maybe a stray thunderstorm, downpours likely for sunday, 68. jersey shore, that's the place to be today, sun and clouds, 77 degrees, gusty thunderstorms for tomorrow, 79. here's the exclusive ac

a night to be inside by a fireplace, tucked under a quilt. not outside in the frigid dark, not way up here, 9,000 feet up in the colorado mountains, snow thick already that late november night. and with the windchill, 24 belo below. >> i don't know enough to know what happened. still trying to figure it out. >> what in god's name was his wife doing, walking out into the brutal cold? more to the point, what happened to her? middle class married mother of three, where did she go? without a word to him or her friends. >> you can't imagine that this is happening to you and to your friend. >> she was just plain missing. >> yes, she was. it was terrifying. dreadful in the end. as events were about to prove, a shocking lesson on what can dwell hidden beneath a person's public skin. >> this is really a secret thing, as far as you know? >> a lot of it, sure. >> everybody has secrets, of course. stephanie roner's secrets lived as she did. silverthorn, colorado. the happy way she got here is the sort of thing that you might read in a romance novel. >> i

this is the moment when he wears the cardigan sweater, and he sits by the white house fireplace, and he announces to the country the energy crisis is still with us, it's permanent, this is going to require sacrifice, and the only solution is for us to change our wasteful ways. and, you know, this is after two weeks of him, you know, wearing long underwear, and he announces that, you know, the solution is going to be to cut back. and so if relationship afford nixon during -- richard nixon said we have to dial down to 68 degrees, now jimmy carter says it has to be 65. >> you, there are a number of things they do symbolically in the white house. you note that they posted signs all over the white house signed by the management. what did the signs say? [laughter] >> you might have to remember. >> please keep thurm stats at -- thermostats at 65 degrees, the management. >> and these appear all throughout, you know, and so the it's this combination, right, of carter urging americans to use less, to put away their cars one day a week, to carpool, to use mass transit. he ends limousine service

furniturere maybe some old coins, so jewelry, things in the attics t or the basement or maybe on your fireplacered forever? re whatever it might be that yout t think is worth something we may be able to help you.elp you. >> fox5 going to help you find f out what they're worth.orth or if they're just your ownr o treasure and really not worth nt much to anyone else. e >> personal value.>> >> has to do with this week's zip trip. w zi we are headed this friday to kensington maryland where whe antiques rule. they are king. several appraisers will be onprs land to check out your items -... hand to check out your treasures.es. they'll appraise your items from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. it will be in the courtyardourt behind 3762 howard avenue in762 kensington. get there early. they only appraise until until 11:00. you get to see the crew, too. t >> i was looking aroundroun yesterday and i was like hm, what could i take down and i'maa looking and i was like nothing.ing. so -- >> we could be best friends onbe friday. >> tomorrow. >> we don't have much time. my stuff it s getting appraisedd tomorrow. focus

craig was by the fireplace lost in grief with the pain he could do nothing to say the man he so loved, and felt, i am sure as many of you have experienced in your life, the truth of the words of the prophet -- love eows not its own deathd -- depth until the hour of separation. has washed and lapsed into unconsciousness, closed his -- as washington lapsed into unconsciousness, he closed his eyes they and that had been , taking his poles fell to his side, his countenance changed, and he then expired without a struggle or a sigh. the great mind so steady in its operation, so sure at its conclusions, had failed. here was no more than an empty vessel, drained of the subsistence of a nation. when a revolutionary war veteran to as a, referred melancholy intelligence of washington's demise, he dropped and exclaimed, i rejoice that i have been a soldier under washington. we can rejoice that we are citizens of a great country that he founded. and let us forever be grateful that the father of our great nation left us a lasting example of love for a united country, the desire to expand freedom, r

>> i grabbed my two founders and went and spent three hours with steve in front of his fireplace talking about the future. he made the case for how iphone was going to win the smartphone wars. and how we could work together to change the way people interact with them. >> rose: and then when did they say we want to buy your company. >> we had some back and forth negotiation stuff but it was a few months later that we decided to go ahead and move forward with it. >> rose: and what role do you think it has played in the iphone? >> well, i think it was a crucial part of the 4s launch it was also introducing this new paradigm on the world in a way only apple knows how to do properly. it was very exciting to watch our baby get taken on such an international stage. and i think they did a wonderful job with it. >> rose: why did you leave to start another company? >> actually i left for over reasons. and eventually came around to talk to some other entrepreneurs, a couple of years later. we just were brain storming what was going on. we ultimately decided siri is and all of the other assistants a

besides singing on the fireplace hearth with my sisters, we did community theater. >> so many pop starsin the world of broadway feel out of place when they are asked to be theater people. did you feel out of place? >> completely. >> i don't believe for one second you are as many as you play. you are better than anyone. >> waitress, the musical is based on the 2007 film about life, love, and pie of the same name. it was written and directed by adrian shelly who costars in the movie. >> that was the place where you can write your first letter to your family. right in the middle. >> shelly was murdered before the film's release. >> i talk a lot to adrian shelly in my writing and invite her into the process. >> waitress stars someone who knows all aboutn broadway. jesse mueller won a tony for the portrayal of carol king musical. >> i got a sense of early demos she had done. i had an emotional reaction to the music and that doesn't always happen. >> one song was she used to be mine. ♪ ♪ >> i was taken with it and fascinated by it. intimidated for a long time. they have a moment in the course

called the parole officeled the wall listens up living there and in 1975 he leaves the great to the fireplaceopen and it burns down his home and they have to rebuild it is a beautiful ornate infrastructure but here is what is beautiful in state michaels cemetery as wallace died his tombstone doesn'tnext u say robo or homeless drifter it says clinton wallace night of the road and that is curch he loved people here love stories he wasas very forgiving but he was interesting so he liked him issues that he was on the criminal side. [laughter] >> something that you might imagine he would think about i don't mean to put you in his mind but who better to ask then somebody to put together this biography? what would he think about today's political environment? >> he would be horrified in every way and to things would have bothered him immensely he spent the last three years of his lifeug combating this right or wrong he thought george bought bush form policy wasica against everything that america stood for the first goal for and saw this as the first for re into the american empire building she was v

. >> head for the fireplace. >> facing death and danger to find the long, lost artifacts for which hearching. this week, some real-life archaeologists started their expedition in a much more mundane place -- a parking lot in reading, england, an hour west of london. they believe that underneath a layer of pavement lies a king. king henry i, to be exact. the son of william the conqueror was buried in reading's abbey in 1136. 808 years later, little more than ruins are left. historians using state of the art ground-penetrating radar pinpointing the king's final resting place. if it all sounds familiar, it's because four years ago the final resting place of king richard iii was also located beneath a parking lot in the city of lester. after dna testing confirmed richard's identity, the british government decided to give him a royal reburial in 2015. [ cheers ] >> reporter: there are some who believe richard's reburial lifted a curse on his hometown soccer team. le the team shocked the city winning the premiere league by 500-1 odds. maybe discovering king henry i can provide a royal relie

and fireplaces are not efficient lawsuit the franklin stove is.refused to take out a patent on it because he felt that anything that was that good for his country should be owned for humanity, for that matter, should be owned by everyone. so the problem is that -- individualism isn't necessarily bad. it's also part of our evolution. it's their to a reason. but the problem is in that in this society, that ethos that franklin adhered to in that amazing act, with the stove, has been basically lost, and it's to our detriment. >> god love benjamin franklin. >> you say acting in a tribal way means being willing to make a substantive sackry identifies for community, be that your neighborhood, your workplace or your entire country. obviously people in the military are doing it for their entire country. what can become of -- i'm not trying to make you change the world but what can compel people to think that way? because i see some out about in the city, people trying to help their neighborhood, their block, trying to help their billing, but i see this cou

. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first.hould check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. >>[gavel] >> recommissioned will please come to water and the secretary will call the roll. >> >>[call of the roll] >> the second item on the agenda the approval of the minutes of may 17, 2016. >>

before the fire it is upside down as you can see (laughter) this was so the in the front door the fireplacewhere the bands sets up and basically have the lamps on the harp there and the resolution curtains we lost all that and the fire after this is what we were left that basically the same angle we were crushed the staff lost their employment and tough year but we feel a little bit of silver lynn the blessing the redwood studs a stringerers are still there only because of fast action of the fire department this is the clean up afterward as you can see our facade remained and a 3 alarm fire it was about to take over the whole block the 3 stations take care of it and saved our honkey to know. >> give us a change to- never installation so we puts first started with kills pant that is a thick latex paints and put so many coats our first barrier before the bar a quarter inch of paneling as the only installation and we use the best i believe this is the best on the market the r thirty installation and puts that not only in all the walls north, south, east and west but also in the ceiling so all

middle of july he'd walk around his house in paris, his body wrapped up in blankets, all the fireplacesng away. he believed that just as the gases in the atmosphere were beneficial to the earth by acting like blankets to hold in heat from m the sun,n, that keeg his body wrapped in blankets was beneficial to his own health. and arguably it was, until one time a b blanket k kid him when he tripped on it and fell down the stairs. [laughter] fourier was a great scientist. we owe him a huge debt. but what exactly were the gases that enabled the grereenhouse effect? roughly 30 years later that question troubled an irish scientist named john tyndall. scientists at the time thought that all gases were transparent. but if that were true, how could any one of them block infrared or heat escaping from the earth? was there a gas that wasn't transparent? tyndall tried, couldn't find one. then he noticed that the gas that was pumped into the laboratory--in those days they called it coal gas because it was extracted from coal-- tyndall found that for heat rays, coal gas was opaque as a pint of wood. b

. >> reporter: investigators say the most likely cause was fireplace ashes left in a bag in the house'scina took the blame for that but in a recent deposition said it was madonna badger that mishandled the ashes. in response, she told nbc news last month, i feel sorry for him. i feel incredibly sad for him. during an interview in 2012, she said she thought an electrical problem and not ashes sparked the fire. >> how is it that you have a little bit of ashes cause this enormous fire that spread so quickly? >> reporter: as for the mystery surrounding borcina's whereabouts, madonna badger could not be reached for comment, matthew badger declined to comment and we tried to contact michael borcina but so far have not been able to reach him. matt? >> joe fryer, thank you. >>> allegation this also this morning, new questions are being raised about the effectiveness and safety of popular hand sanitizers used by millions of americans. natalie is here with more on that. >> we use them. the food & drug administration is requiring further study on the long-term safety of specific ingredients found

he initially took blame for the fire saying he impropererly disposed of his fireplace ash but then said it was his girlfriend that mishandled the ashes. his lawyer says he haesn't been able to get a hold of his client. >>> let's get a check of the weather. >> thank you very much. good morning. we had people being dampened back in colorado last night. look at these strong storms. they had hail and lightening and damaging winds. they had a lot of rain. look at those flags flying in all that rain. we have more strong storms, same system, pushing to the east. you can see those storms pushing through kansas making their way to the south. we got a risk of strong storms today especially out to the west. hail and possibly damaging winds and then it's part of a station area front you can see down through the gulf we're looking at more scattered showers and thunderstorms, heavy down powers and a lot of heavy rain for the next three days could be anywhere from two to three inches of rain and into the pan handle of florida and southern georgia possibility of two to four inches of rain creating some

. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. >> good morning everybody. welcome to our board of supervisors' budget and finance committee meeting for monday, june 20th, 2016. could i ask members of the public to -- thank you, if we could get moving on the agenda, so we can get people speaking. my name is mark farrell and i'm going to be chairing this committee and joined by

ford: on a marble fireplace in the white house is carved a prayer which john adams wrote.but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." since i have resided in that historic house, i have tried to live by that prayer. [applause] mr. ford: i faced many tough problems. i probably made some mistakes, but on balance, america and americans have made an incredible comeback since august 1974. [applause] mr. ford: nobody can honestly say otherwise. and the plain truth is that the great progress we have made at home and abroad was in spite of the majority who run the congress of the united states. [applause] mr. ford: for two years, i have stood for all the people against a vote-hungry, free-spending congressional majority on capitol hill. [applause] mr. ford: fifty-five times i vetoed extravagant and unwise legislation. forty-five times i made those vetoes stick. [applause] mr. ford: those vetoes have saved american taxpayers billions and billions of dollars. i am against the big tax spender and for the little taxpayer. [applause] mr. ford: i called for a permanent tax cut, c