doing yoga, playing guitar, a far cry from his famous great-great grandfather who fought in gettings gettysburg. gettysburg. >> i yo knew about it. i was not that interested as a little kid. >> some people said, didn't he lose, wasn't he a loser? that is the way a lot of history books talked about, pickett's charge. >> did you bury your head. >> i did that one time, i didn't know enough to defend him. >> someone that knows a lot about general pickett, civil iar historian earl earl coats, i mem on the battle feel. >> you are one of the icon excites of the civil war. >> what was pickett's contribution? >> general pickett to that time was known as a confederate commander, but after the charge he was known world over. >> pickett's under james long street in july 1 1863 in gettysburg. commanded by general robert elee. >> he was looking for a great victory on union soil. >> federal army holds high ground, lee orders a controversial attack, an assault on center of the union line, general pickett's troops are assigned to brake through the middle. >> quit right now we're on the confederate side. >> on t

stormtracker 6 live double scan already showing us that the atmosphere is beginning to get moist down by baltimore and gettysburg and dover delaware this initial precipitation may not be hitting the ground but we are setting the table for that precipitation coming in from the south and west. the system extends towards cincinnati and nashville. this is pushing past us and bringing us the majority of rain the low pressure is swooping by to the south as well. some clouds are rolling and we started with how this was this morning going to change and there is that rain, the initial onslaught of it is not all that heavy, enough to slow things down on the roads and getting steadier toward rush hour the wide view it moves in from the southwest to the northeast and at times there are steadier cells popping through and at midnight everything begins to calm down and how much rain are we expecting the models vary on this and a couple of them close toward a third of an inch we feel comfortable with the half inch to inch rain and i'll show you how this rolls and out, and tomorrow's weather with a nice upswing in temperatures.

gettysburg address tend to be the two documents people remember the most of lincoln's. and they are the two documents inscribed at the lincoln memorial. the second inaugural is on the north side. get is it addresses on the south side. -- the gettysburg address is on the south side. people remember -- the last phrase. why that page was display the most. it is pretty extraordinary after four years of civil war after hundreds of thousands of deaths, the treasure involved in prosecuting the war that lincoln goes into the future with "malice toward none with charity for all." that that kind of -- that kind of generosity is something you would not necessarily expect. the other thing, that was actually not frederick douglass's favorites part of the speech. but he concentrated more on the passages with slavery, that this war was about compensating in some sort of larger sense for the sin of slavery. that is again where you get that "for every drop taken from the lash will be paid with one from the sword." for african-americans, remember this war was the one that eliminated slavery. while abraham lincoln gave the speech, the 13th amendment had been put out to the states. it abolished slave

the batch out by get ities burger and -- gettysburg and wilmington is starting to slide in.nd off and drying out in the afternoon. late day sun saturday will feel like winter, high of 42. in the morning windchills in the 20s and windchills in the 30s, tam. >> something to look forward to. coming up on "action news" at noon we've got new details on the crash about the germanwings flight. mounting evidence about the co-pilot that crashed the plane may have been mentally ill. "live" with kelly and michael is next. have a great weekend! announcer: it's "live with kelly & michael"! today, hollywood heartthrob chris hemsworth is here. and shaq takes on our own michael strahan in a karaoke contest you won't want to miss. plus, from "pretty little liars" actress lucy hale. and someone in our audience gets the chance to win big. all next on "live"! [captioning made possible by disney-abc domestic television] now here are kelly ripa and michael strahan! [cheering and applause] kelly: what? thank you. michae

lee certainly looks back at gettysburg and has never given explanations for why gettysburg has failed. he says he's not getting good intelligence because jeb stewart has disappeared. jeb stewart as some of you know lee's cavalry commander and he goes on, basically a joyride before gettysburg, and lee relies on him for intelligence. he believes his corps commanders don't act in unison and even picket's charge could have succeeded if they had proper artillery support but no one told him they were running low after that initial bombardment. he does feel that he's running out of time, he has to destroy the union army. and if you go back actually to chancellorsville -- i mentioned this earlier -- and you look at robert e. lee's attitude after of the battle of chancellorsville, he's furious that joseph hooker manages to escape. and the final position was a pretty strong position x robert e. lee was planning to run a frontal assault, but hooker withdraws that night. and so in some sense hooker makes the greatest mistake of his life by retreating, and he saves robert e. lee from making the mistake he's going to make a

certainly looks back at gettysburg and has a number of different explanations for why gettysburg fails, he says. he's not gettinggood intelligence because jeb stewart has disappeared. jeb stewart, as some of you know lee's cavalry commander, and he goes on -- basically what's a joyride before gettysburg, and lee relies on jeb stewart for intelligence. he believes his corps commanders don't act in unison, and he believes even at pickett's charge maybe it could have succeeded, but no one told him they were running low on artillery. i think it's a moment of frustration for lee. he does feel he's running out of time, he has to destroy the union army. and if you go back actually, to chancellorsville -- i mentioned this earlier -- and you look at robert e. lee's attitude after the battle of chancellorsville, he is furious. he's furious that joseph hooker, who's then a union general, manages to escape. and, actually, a lot of confederates think that hooker's final position at chancellorsville was a pretty strong position and robert e. lee was planning to order a frontal assault against that position, but hooker withdra

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get to the other side. i'll go out wider here, lets just go all wait out there is a second batch forming by harrisburg and gettysburg. there could be more on the way an hour to hour and a half later. we have cloudy skies and aboard chopper 6, sunshine that stayed with us throughout the morning, now that the rain is on our doorstep the rain has got and thicker, winds out of the south-southwest at 13 miles per hour, that is as strong as they will get today as we go through the middle of the afternoon, there is a chance of a sprinkle or shower to the north and sweeping through the northern areas, more action popped up down the shore by tonight and we are looking at spotty light stuff high temperatures in the region up to 50 in cape may and 45 in allentown a lot of areas from philadelphia south getting to 50 or so in atlantic city 52 this afternoon as we roll down from philadelphia coming down from the high, to 49 and 47 by 5:00 and 44 by 7:00, i'm posting the possibility of showers here in the 3:00 to 5:00 period. spotty and light. a lot of you can avoid that. watch how temperatures kind of just settle and pop up by mi

gettysburg. by mistake actually. neither one expected to be fighting there. looking frantically for a commander to get the orders to. it was the end of the union line. i got a was absolutely undefended. one of the people looking at the battle map saw it was uncovered. send orders to coverage immediately. the person who brought the orders could not find the man he was supposed to give it to. vincent saw him frantically writing around looking for the guy inside what is your orders? the orders were to defend. he said i will take the responsibility of defending the top, and he moves his men over 1000.

get home by 3 o'clock. storm tracker 6 live double scan around the region, you can see that we're dry currently. we've been watching a few snowflakes move through gettysburg affecting our area just yet. let's go on outside and see what it looks like as we go live in sky 6 in hd checking out philadelphia international airport where we're dry and we actually have partly cloudy skies, not too bad to start you off but look at that temperature. it's just 25 degrees right now. it's cold out there and the wind chill making it feel like it's in the teens so colder than yesterday morning. the dewpoint way down, just 11 degrees so we still have to moisten up the atmosphere before we get any precipitation. winds out of the north and they're light at seven. nothing like the windy day we had yesterday and that barometric pressure is holding steady right now. satellite6 and action radar showing the clouds filling in at this point and precipitation still well out to our west. we'll be watching that until later on. we brought in our always on day planner to see how temperatures will go through the day. future tracker 6 we're fine during the morning then we advance this t

veterans get congress to establish in august 1890 chickamauga and chattanooga national military park as the first such public area in the u.s.. subsequently, the battlefield of antietam charlotte, gettysburg and -- shiloh, gettysburg and vicksburg will be created. with its units at the chickamauga battlefield, on lookout mountain and on missionary ridge still tells the story. a vital story in the course of our nation's history. an important part of deciding how the civil war turned out. you can read about our country's history in books but here you can walk the ground where those decisions were made. here on the chattanooga battlefield you are mostly in an urban environment. you can still stand near where ulysses s. grant stood. look at that profile of missionary ridge. understanding little about the difficulties he faced in dealing with the confederates on that formidable piece of terrain. and then seeing, amazed, the union troops charge up the slope. you can drive along crest road and see the monuments along the crest of missionary ridge marking where troops were stationed. and marvel at how the union troops charged up the slopes of missionary ridge. >> our live coverage continues on am

gettysburg cemetery. this is the opening page. it was printed in washington d.c., right after the speech. if i can getthe paper to turn -- it starts off with a description of how greek heroes were treated. he starts in ancient athens with people who fought nobly for a good cause and how they were treated, honored in death and burial. he is starting off 2000 years ago and working his way back up to the united states civil war. the pamphlet was printed by "washington chronicle" after the speeches were given. this was the first booklet form, official version, of the gettysburg address. i thought it was interesting that when you look over to eve rett's speech goes on and on, and i did not see applause very often, but when you look at the short speech that many of us had to learn as schoolchildren, the speech lincoln gave, on the last page, you see where they put all of it right here, they put "[a pplause]" in brackets. this was recorded by a couple of newspaper people as well as various handwritten versions. there are several and there is controversy about, did he say this word or that word that might be

get tysburg. >> that old cap was worn by general picket at gettysburg. there's his uniform sleeve.otos his military sash. and this, picket's own handdrawn map of the the battlefield. >> he was delighted. it's like he found a gold mine. >> it's a sneak peek of strange inheritan inheritance. i got goose bumps. >> swindled. he -- you have to see the episode to see what happened to him. but for so many years, ed picket was known as picket because he was embarrassed. we learned it in school, it didn't go very well. he led his soldiers into battle and many of them died. but as we started to go through the history and see those civil war and gettysburg memorabilia, this is about learning about these incredible family legacies and this is an incredible story. this is what can happen if you don't research what something is worth. ed picket realizes now that general george picket was a great soldier. he's a great great grandson of him and he was doing what he was ordered to do. that's one of the episodes. >> were these artificates in the family all these years? >> all these years in a suit c

gettysburg. in late '80s and 64 -- 1864 talking about the campaign from tennessee and mississippi there were not a lot of major military actions that would take place though that could not getthe attention it probably should. galveston's role was important it was the largest city in texas with the largest population went into commercial centers and the primary seaport there were no real connection is between texas and the western united states. canso texas to the rest of the confederacy that was the better harbor but so with that blockade running went through galveston for the of the most part. listed was primary. even before the confederates fired april 1861 in charleston, s. secession becomes a shooting war. the idea of a plot by -- a blockade is an old traditional technique used warfare to keep shut -- ships and vessels to get support from outside. declared a blockade that was two days after jefferson davis had authorized privateers to go after union ships which itself is an act of war. but the union blockade was declared april 1861 proposed the idea was to the federalist with position and borg ships around the airports to prevent vessels from coming in and out. running

get a check a little closer to home. >> dry so far on storm tracker 6 live double scan ginger although there is a little bit of upper level precipitation out by gettysburga little damp tomorrow but milder. >> it says lolly loves bennett from aubrey, arkansas. [ cheers and applause ] >> i think she's taking over the show. >>> coming up we have an emotional interview with celine dion, the star opening up in an abc news exclusive. stay with us. ♪ incredibl jim kenney. son of a firefighter. first in his family to go to college. he's been councilman at-large, representing the whole city. a progressive voice who'll be a mayor for our neighborhoods. bringing philadelphia together... expanding pre-kindergarten improving our schools... ...and partnering with businesses, community colleges and universities to create jobs jim kenny, the block by block mayor we need to move philadelphia ahead. ♪ incredible ♪ >> looking forward to this all morning long. celine dion, the superstar singer making a big comeback after taking a year off to be with her beloved husband rene as he battles throat cancer. now she's speaking out about that decision and why she's ready to take