>> aladdin is playing at grovers. >> no, sir. i'm afraid not, sir. >> pity.ome fine acting there tonight. >> the officers could keep their side arms. >> and what terms did you make for the common soldiers? >> i told them to go back to their homes and families with the promise to not again take up arms against the united states of america. >> quite simple. and quite right. which brings to mind how very providential it is that this was crushed just as congress has adjourned. there are men in congress who harbor feelings of hate and vindictiveness toward the south. but there will be no persecution. when this war is over, no bloody work. we must spend every effort to reanimate the south. put her state governments in order and to re-establish the union before congress reconvenes. still no word from general sherman? >> we are hourly expecting him. >> it will be good news. general sherman will have secured johnston's surrender. i know this because i have had the dream last night. i've had it before. it's always the same and invariably followed by favorable news. as

gerri: a note, grover, i want to make to you here.e tried to find form 8965, which is form you have to fill out. it is not available. >> any luck? this is one they're telling all the tax preparers to deal with? gerri: yes. >> they don't like tax preparers. this may be part of the screwing the tax preparers and going, you know what, the irs will do everybody's taxes for you way they do in france where government sends you a bill. oh, this is a big, big project. they're trying to do it in several states. trying to do it at national level. they think they will save everyone a lot of time and energy doing your taxes for you. imagine once the government has done your taxes for you, the irs sends you a bill, you think they did it wrong, talk about fighting city hall? how would you like to fire the irs? gerri: give prison guard the keys. grover, thanks for coming on the show. wish i had seen you. good having your voice here. >> i'm from rural maine. we don't have -- gerri: thank you. >> take care. gerri: time for a look at stories you're cli

it's not the obama recovery, grover nork wist says it's the gop recovery.t, "the new york times" says grover nor quist may have heralded a republican shift on the economy. he credited the budding revival to the party's austerity push. he wants republicans to take credit for the improving economy. i mean what's next ryan? taking credit for obamacare? >> you know the stimulus in early 2009 is what really stemmed the bleeding and started the turnaround. and at the time, yourself and a lot of others were saying it ought to even be bigger. >> right. >> grover nor quist was not one of those people who was saying we need more stimulus. they started calling it the job-killing stimulus immediately. then they started calling it job-killing obamacare. so we got the job-killing stimulus, we got job-killing obamacare, now the economy is starting to rebound and all of a sudden they want credit for it. i think a lot of republicans aren't going to go along with him because they're on the record so many times as saying that all of these regulations, obamacare, et cetera all

you talked to grover norquest what did you tell you?ore robust economic recover after sequestion and after we instituted a continuation of5% 85% of the bush tax cuts. these are basic tenents of economic philosophy. why don't we make the case that it is republican policies that led to this growth that president obama met us rather than us meeting him. there is a truth that obama has bent a little bit on that but to jarrett's point, correlation is not causation, necessarily and the fact this is happening doesn't necessarily mean it's because of it. he is sort of dismissing the stim stimulus, ignoring that it stopped the bleeding and got the economy on a surer foot and allowed for this to happen. one other point that is harder to get into it he said a lot of what was benefiting the company now was instituted ten years ago, specifically the energy revolution, which certainly has contributed to what we're seeing now. but the debate is much more knewancesknew knewancedknew nuanced. >> republicans have been talking about how bad the economy is

melissa: grover, thank you for coming on. i appreciate your time. >> thank you.elissa: rough day for the markets but not as bad as earlier in the session. the dow and s&p having the worst day in two months. let's go to nicole pest on the floor of the -- nicole petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange having a bit of recovery. >> we're taking a breather with serious selling this morning. down 200 points on the dow. down 89. there is the intraday chart. we look at abroad, from the s&p which is down six. that is up 12. china they actually said they were cutting back on riskier forms of debt. of pushed stocks into negative in asia. in europe they moved up elections for the greek president unexpectedly by two months some that put pressure and uncertainty in europe where you have uncertainty about the economy and the like. right now you can take a look at the vix, the fear index, we've seen that sitting six-week highs. it was up 14% today. now it is up 8%. gives you sense of volatility and nervousness on wall street. oil hit five-year lows. we've seen ene

i agree with a lot of what grover said.e trust fund. that's for sure. number one. number two, we got rid of earmarks which is in some ways not so good but in other ways very good because it means we're not going wasteful ridiculous projects. >> governor, davis-bacon, is that obsolete? is it bad that still is prevailing and can democrats ever see fit to -- would they ever have the intestinal fortitude to make -- grover is saying no -- to go against the unions on this issue? >> they can't do it. they can't do it. >> you're looking at a democrat who's a very progressive democrat. and yet we raise the cap in pennsylvania on the jobs for smaller jobs, the prevailing wage doesn't apply, we raise the cap from $50,000 to $100,000 on those jobs. but labor costs are a small percentage of what road building or for that matter, building buildings -- >> is that true, grover? that's not the fly in the ointment then? >> look, it's a very important -- >> it's not the cost driver. >> okay. don't come to the american people and tell them the

the one in that group who was different was grover cleveland.he had two non-consecutive terms as president. he was the only democrat between buchanan before lincoln and wilson. which is one of the reasons why daniel was so supportive of the politician, wilson, was because he was a winner. after losing three times with brian who was a close friend of daniels and colleague, he thought that wilson was the way to go. well, one of those republicans was theodore roosevelt. and theodore roosevelt may or may not have been a good president depending on your perspective but he was a very bad ex-president. he was not constitutionally suited to be an ex-president. he had run as being rejected by the elders of the republican party as a candidate against wilson in 1912. he ran as an independent bull moose candidate. so daniels thought that it would really make the administration look good from the beginning to bring a roosevelt into a democratic administration. and so in his correspondence he was describing later in life he described how he had this vision of

on the one in that group who was different, the outlier, was grover cleveland. he had two nonconsecutive terms as president and he was the only democrat between buchanan, before lincoln, and wilson, which was one of the reasons why daniels was so supportive of tht politician wilson. it was because he was a winner. after losing three times with brian, who was a close friend oe daniels in college, he thought that wilson was the way to go. one of those republicans was theodore roosevelt.ing theodore roosevelt may or may g not have been a good president, depending on your perspective, but he was a very bad hi ex-president. he was not constitutionally suited to be an ex-president. he had run, being rejected by the elders of the republican party, as a candidate against wilson in 1912. he ran as an independent candidate. so, daniels thought that it would really make the administration look good from the beginning to bring a rationelt into a democratic administration. so, in his correspondence, he was describing later, actually, in his correspondence later in life, he d

the one in that group who was different was grover cleveland.he had two non-consecutive terms as president. he was the only democrat between buchanan before lincoln and wilson. which is one of the reasons why daniel was so supportive of the politician, wilson, was because he was a winner. after losing three times with brian who was a close friend of daniels and colleague, he thought that wilson was the way to go. well, one of those republicans was theodore roosevelt. and theodore roosevelt may or may not have been a good president depending on your perspective but he was a very bad ex-president. he was not constitutionally suited to be an ex-president. he had run as being rejected by the elders of the republican party as a candidate against wilson in 1912. he ran as an independent bull moose candidate. so daniels thought that it would really make the administration look good from the beginning to bring a roosevelt into a democratic administration. and so in his correspondence he was describing later in life he described how he had this vision of

. >> grover cleveland territory and fannie. >> quite a bit of gossip around grover cleveland's white house. >> anyway my question is mary todd lincoln -- >> mary lincoln yes. >> mary lincoln didn't like grant too much. >> no. >> and she liked his wife less julia, but my question is she called grant a butcher after cold harbor but in the 1870s curiously enough when grant becomes president, he secures some type of presidential pension for mary lincoln when she's financially struggling a little bit. did she ever -- >> you think grant was the one to secure her pension? >> that's what i found in the reading, yeah. >> well, i would just check my last chapter because -- i believe it was a long campaign on her part. i would say there were congressional persons pushing it more than i would give grant credit. it may have been granted during grant's period but i don't really think he would be someone i would line up as advancing that cause too dramatically. >> that's what i heard. i just wondered if she ever thanked him for that or not. >> did mary ever thank grant for advancing her political f

about annulare yesterday morning to bring the fire under control at a building on the end of palm grovert court. investigators believer the fire was accidental and it may have been caused by candles. a family of four livering in the apartment was forced to sleep have whether else last flame >>> investigators suspect a homeless person may have sparked a two alarm fire at a commercial building. videos posted online shows flames. we have not received any reports of injuries or damage. >>> for the first time in a century, christmas mass at holy cross catholic church was held in its bingo hall. a fire destroy the church's sanctuary. and investments that were zaired and cleaned after the fire. >> we went through all these motions. all this grieving. about losing our church. and the christmas, it seems is a time of joy. so p it's okay to rejoice to be happen. >> some of the at that statues from the fire were on display. the die sis of san jose is currently coming waive and give up reconstruction plans and figuring out how much it will cost to rebuild the church. >> hundreds of people gathered f

doug, governor bush repeatedly said he wouldn't sign grover norquist's no new tax pledge s that true?rue, trace. governor bush said he would not sign that pledge, that antitax activist lobbyists grover norquist puts to gop candidates running for higher office. marco rubio bobby jindal, ted cruz mergerly signed it. he said i don't believe you outsource your convictions and principles to people. grover norquist is tearing into bush for his refusal to sign the pledge. >> jeb bush won't put it in writing and won't say it. at some point you have to ask him what taxes do you plan to raise? why would you not reform spending? those are questions that jeb bush will have to answer if he is going to run for president. >> reporter: bush does answer with his record as governor of florida which stands as the real testament to his record as a tax cutter and fiscal measure. he cut $19.3 billion in taxes with tax cuts every year during his eight years as governor. that, while growing the state's reserve to $9 billion from just one billion when he first took office. so that is really no small accomplis

jill grover from our nbc station in los angeles shows us why you need to buckle up more than your seatelt when you're in the air. >> reporter: it happened aboard an american airlines red eye to paris. >> eyes were closed. >> reporter: the lights were dimmed and carol of orange county dozed off. >> sleeping on my side. >> reporter: leaving her purse in the seat pocket. minutes later -- >> a man stole my purse. i could see a blanket flopping under his arm as he's running up the aisle. >> reporter: the thief ran into a bathroom and she waited till he came out. >> he merged in full uniform, flight attendant with the badge. >> it could certainly happen to anyone. because this is a crime of opportunity -- >> reporter: the fbi's david gates says the feds have nabbed numerous on-board thieves. like the one on a flight from sydney to l.a.x. >> we got a confession. >> reporter: a confession from australian professional rugby star tony daley, who admitted stealing $925 from carry-on bags. he gave the money back to the feds so they didn't charge him. >> we sent the australian rugby star home to au

he stands politically but those of us who have witnessed his performance as governor -- i remember groverquist and 2006, for example, saying he was the most conservative governor in america. he dealt with tax reductions. he dealt with increasing the reserves. he dealt with education reform. he was the trendsetter in the conservative movement at the state level. those around the country who did not know him the way we know him and florida will get a better taste of where he stands. i think that they will be comfortable with them across the party. >> mitt romney -- what is the chance he gets in now? >> i think he has said prett y consistently it was his instinct not to run. he has said it as many ways as you can. i am not privy to his thinking tonight, but i think it makes it easier for him to state in that position. he has someone he admires and respects and the race and at this point in time, i do not see him changing his decision and actively getting a candidacy going. >> the speculation about marco rubio, despite what his team is saying this does not affect his decision, that he will ru

. >> grover cleveland territory and fannie. >> quite a bit of gossip around grover cleveland's white house. >> anyway my question is mary todd lincoln -- >> mary lincoln yes. >> mary lincoln didn't like grant too much. >> no. >> and she liked his wife less julia, but my question is she called grant a butcher after cold harbor but in the 1870s curiously enough when grant becomes president, he secures some type of presidential pension for mary lincoln when she's financially struggling a little bit. did she ever -- >> you think grant was the one to secure her pension? >> that's what i found in the reading, yeah. >> well, i would just check my last chapter because -- i believe it was a long campaign on her part. i would say there were congressional persons pushing it more than i would give grant credit. it may have been granted during grant's period but i don't really think he would be someone i would line up as advancing that cause too dramatically. >> that's what i heard. i just wondered if she ever thanked him for that or not. >> did mary ever thank grant for advancing her political f

in this case, the scenario was changed from london to grovers mill, new jersey. this was being broadcast from new york city and the martians were landing, supposedly, an hour south of new york city. this did cause quite a considerable reaction. the interesting thing here is that it is not the reaction that most people think, even today. the newspapers of the time said that there was a panic in the street everywhere because this was being broadcast nationally. scholars have shown that that was not true. there was some concern. maybe a few people who panicked, but not widespread panic at all. the moral of the story here is -- why would the print newspapers to this? they were acting on anecdotal information and the scholars think now, these days, that they were trying to belittle radio, which was, after all, a competitor in terms of news and advertising. this fledgling new radio in the 1930's. that is an interesting reaction. many studies have been done on it. in the 1940's, the idea of the panic thing was really the main scenario of what happened. it was not that a

grover norquist tweets that the recovery is all due to the republicans' agenda to slash government spendinghat federal spending as a share of gdp has fallen. he also tweets that the economy grew because we stopped doing stimulus and did sequester in instead instead. so it was the sequester, stupid, not anything that the obama administration had done. is there legitimacy there? >> you have republicans playing both sides. on one side they're tapping into this raw resentment against government, or low confidence in government. it's government shouldn't be raising your taxes, have to cut back on spending. on the other side of this, they're trying to say we're also the ones who are cutting back on stimulus cutting back on basically obama and his regime, or his junta. and also trying to tap into this populist rage as well a little bit of what elizabeth warren is doing -- >> how much juice do they get out of that? >> some juice, but i don't think anybody in america will say sequester helped. for republicans there's a challenge going forward as we ramp up military activity in iraq, how do you expla

family scottish irish roots and details the lives and careers of several family members including grover cleveland vice president adlai stevenson and two-time democratic -- democratic illinois governor adlai stevenson second. this originally aired in 1996 and it's about an hour. c-span: jean h. baker, author of "the stevensons: a biography of an american family," what's the scope of this book? >> guest: well, it's pretty broad and it's a long book but it covers a lot of stevenson generations. and it also focuses on the most important, in some ways, of all the stevensons. and that's adlai ewing stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956. it took me a long time to do and i really was trying hard to look at layers of stevensons and different views of family life, etc., and not only do just a political biography of some of the best known stevensons. c-span: did you ever meet any of them? >> guest: yes, i did. the most prominent stevensons that i met were adlai stevenson ii's sister, that's buffie stevenson ives

it's vary that you have to go back to grover cleveland who refused to use fema or . it's this theory of let's steel everything that is not tied down, and it grows with the administrative state. it makes most of our laws in the sense of regulations and it has power over those who don't have independent agencies. so now the power is quiet vast. >> are we able to move forward to world war ii, either to the depression era acts of fdr or even as back as far as the decision to make war in spain grow the government during the prerogative era, and then go to war to save europe? >> certainly by the time the presidents will play a role in shaping the government, you see this huge accrual of power. it's true that presidents claim power at every turn. much of the power they have has been handed off to them by congress, and presidents again have powerful political incentives to guard what powers they have. you talked about a pendulum, and i'm not sure that's right. because once the powers are granted to the president, they'll do everything they can to hold onto them, and congress

>> guest: work with grover nordqvist. he doesn't like corporate welfare. he calls it crony capitalism. we work with right groups, even ron paul, very, very critical of the patriot act, which is coming up for renewal next year. they'd be able to search your home and not tell you for 72 hours. the government can get your library records and if the librarian tells you they got a security letter from the fbi the library could be criminally prosecuted. this is not america. >> host: the book is called unstoppable. what's next on the agenda as far as books go? >> guest: well, we have a book on my unanswered letters to president george w. bush and president barack obama. i want to revive the practice of letter-writing with government officials as a form of communication. it used to be muchmer -- fertile. >> as always we appreciate your time. >> robert hawse talks about the life and career of leo strauss, considered by some to be the start of the neoconservatism. >> i'm now happy to intro use to our guest speaker. roberthouse has been a visiting professor at, among

two met while attending a function at pots grover high school. your time 5:09. continuing to follow this morning's breaking news, several bodies have been found, from the missing airasia plane. >> plus, another scare in the skies, as flames shoot-out of the engine after plane from philadelphia. we're now hearing from passengers on board that plane. >> also, ready to go boom. we will take you behind the scenes of the two big new years fireworks shows they're going to go down or go up, if you will, up and down, on the delaware river. >> and the temperatures tumbling as new year quickly approachesment katie lets you know just how cold it will get if you are planning on watching the fireworks outside. you'll want to bundle up. we'll be right back. >> we have breaking news bodies, debris spot in the waters near where the missing airasia flight was last seen. officials say, it is likely from the missing plane. there is no sign of survivors so far. >> according, a woman killed, three other passengers injured in this crash in nicetown. police say speed may have been a f

investigators say giveny met the boy at a function at pots grover high school. she used her cell phone to send him nude pictures of herself. >> this souters jersey manna cured of hut g his fiancee's two year old son. giovani facing attempted murder charges after the boy suffered several injuries including kidney failure last week. prosecutors are not releasing any other details about how the boy was hurt. >> well, a driver accused of running away from attempted traffic stop in delaware county is dead following a violent head on collision with another car. authorities say a folcroft police officer attempted to pull over this white nissan al tim a when the driver sped away. moments later the driver plowed into a red pontiac grand am. it all happened yesterday afternoon, in front of the glenolden fire company. >> i heard the whistle going off. i was in my office upstairs, heard large bang, and came down immediately and just saw the scene at the corner there cars everywhere, police came out with the guns drawn. >> now the driver of that grand am remains in critical

grover norquist joins us from washington d.c.. welcome back. a long time but we thought you should be here after the president suggested a gas tax increase. i know what you are going to say but i can't believe the president wants to attack something just because the price is down and we are all doing well. >> the president wants to raise taxes because that is his answer to everything. in point of fact over 20% of the money we spend on roads is overspending because of the davis bacon act from the 1930s which requires the government to spend more than the market would require. 17% of your gas tax dollars gets siphoned from mass-transit which should pay its own bills and the user fee from doing a subway. the gas tax is supposed to be a user fee for using highways end the money, 20% is taken off for david bacon, 20% transit, we should be cutting those wastes out and using that money to build more roads or fixed mortgages or reducing the gas tax, not increasing it. stuart: the gas tax money -- bike paths, and that is not what i am paying that tax fo

rye questions of benjamin harrison for children and grandchildren, five years later grover cleveland'swhite house tree with electric lights. and one first family had to sneak a tree past their commander in chief. >> of course roosevelt didn't really agree or enjoy the idea of having christmas trees in the house because he was such an after i had conservationist, but did bundle under to his children's wishes and actually they did have a tree a few years while in the white house. >> children have always added something to christmas at the white house. both private celebrations, and public events, the spirit of the season the same as any address. in washington, i'm karen kafa. >> that's really cool. >> history look. >> yes, and i think one of my >> christians quartered at churches across the region to celebrate the centerpiece of christmas, the birth of jesus christ. archbishop chaput presided over midnight mass at the cathedral of saint peter and paul. if you ins dollars the service, still time, another christmas day mass is scheduled for 10:00 and another for noon. now, let's get a chec

five years later grover cleveland's family have the first christmas tree with electric lights.irst family had to sneak a tree pass their commander-in-chief. >> rosevelt didn't really agree or enjoy the idea of having christmas trees in the house because he was an avid conservationist. but he did buckle under to his children's wishes and naturally they did have a tree a few years while they were in the white house. >> from the young roosevelts to the obama daughters children have always added something to christmas at the white house. both private celebrations and public events, the spirit of the season the same as any address. >>> still ahead on kron4 morning news, more joy and holiday cheer. see i picked up two more words george. >>> let's take outside at the san mateo bridge, as george says, was busy yesterday there. i guess it wasn't but not today. you can see a great shot and great visibility. nothing is problematic in the ride around the bay right now. we will be right back at low clearance prices. save even more on floor samples, demonstrators, and closeout inventory. plu

storytelling is not interviewing grover norquist in an office. usually policy officials being interviewed. i've got nothing against offices. but that is not interesting. it is not entertaining. it won't bring in people. storytelling is not stacking up all of the statistics, facts, and graphs. people will fall asleep. they will turn and walk away. the only way i think you could get this to work is if you distract people like in clockwork orange and force-feed information. we cannot do that. we are not in favor of that. what do we do instead? we end up ranting and complaining to our friends. we overwhelm them with information and typically come across like these people. [laughter] with apologies to my gluten-free friends in the audience. that is how we end up coming across. i write. i have got the statistic. i know i'm right. i've got the statistic. when you go in and start arguing, instinctively the brain releases endorphins and they dig in their heels and they don't want to listen to you. there is a better way. it is storytelling. it is how we ha

another from grover norquist who, every election cycle puts candidates to sign his pledge. rand paul, scott walker, marco rubio, ted cruz have all signed it. jeb bush has not. >> the pledge was presented to me three times. i never signed the pledge. i don't believe in giving principles and convictions to people. >> jeb bush put it in writing and he won't say it. at some point you have to ask him, what taxes do you plan to raise? >> i think that's kind of nonsense. >> former political scientist derio said in the sunshine state, jeb bush, republican, has come to recommend anyone with credentials. >> he is a tax cutter and a fiscal conservative. he got rid of the florida corporate tax and he reduced the florida intangible tax which is a tax on investments. so when jeb was governor of florida, he did a tremendous job of reducing the size of state government and of keeping taxes and rolling back taxes. >> bush cut $9.3 billion in taxes over eight years while growing the state's reserves to 9 billion, up from 1 billion when he took office. that in a state with no state income tax

grover norquist suggested republicans actually get their heads together and come up with an alternativeent's immigration plan but i have a hard time believing that is in any way feasible. >> i think the marijuana legalization thing must be taking over washington -- >> did you prep these lines in advance? >> sorry. no, no. >> they're too good. >> last night he was practicing in front of a mirror. i saw him. >> there are not a lot of mirrors in my house, sam. i think the republican leadership in the house really wants to address immigration in one form or another. the folks i've talked to on the republican said in the spring they want to come up with some version of this that at least gives them the ability to say to latino voters that they took some sort of effort at this. they could have done it last year with less political cost. but the feeling is this is unfinished business. i wouldn't be surprised if there was some new framework that boehner and his folks came up with that address this. obviously it would be heavy on the border security stuff and limited exemptions. >> that's the qu

people ask, what did i think of grover cleveland? >> i get those questions, too. >> not quite. with the exception of richard nixon, who you did cover, we all know, have you seen a president act on his own? go off on his own to the degree this president has? >> well, i don't think -- i agree with jason in terms of what's going on here, and i would be optimistic. i think the issue this year that was hidden in plain sight and snuck by was the deal on trillion dollars of spending. a deal between obama and the congress. and it worked. they didn't go to the brink. they didn't shut down the government. and i think both obama and the republicans see value in achieving some things. of course, when you achieve something, you have to give something in divided government. and i think people are willing. so i think there will be steps here. on your question -- you know, obama declared, i'm doing all these things if you go back and look at all other presidents, without declaring them, they did lots of things through executive action. i don't think it's changed the dynamic. it is inevitably b

. >> what did i think the grover cleveland? is that what you are asking? >> i guess those questions too. >> you does cover you ever seen a president go off on his own for the degree this president has? >> i don't think -- i agree with jason in terms of what is going on here and what might happen. i would be optimistic. the issue this year that was hidden in plain sight and snuck by was the deal on trillion dollar of spending, a deal between obama and the congress and it worked, they didn't go to the bring, they didn't shut down the government and i think both obama and the republicans see value in achieving some things. of course, when you achieve something you have to give up something in divided government and people are willing. i think there will be steps here. on color question, because obama has declared i am doing all of these things if you go back and look at other oh presidents without declaring them they did a lot of things through executive action. would think it has changed the dynamic. it is inofof inevitablying news. mccounsel a deal maker an

executive orders are something he's -- even with grover cleveland, half of what reagan did. >> but quantityquality. final word. >> the poll that resonates the most is to secure the border first. virtually everybody agrees with that. than didn't happen after the '86 amnesty under reagan. it is not happening now. people want the border secured. nobody wants 11 million people deported. we can fix that problem after we secure the border. it's like a hemorrhage. you got to stop the bleeding before you can treat the rest of the body. >> we get medical and political analysis from you two. good to see you both, merry christmas, happy holidays. >>> still ahead, an army chaplain being punished for sharing his faith? we'll talk about that. >>> and are cheaper gas prices something to get excited about or to be worried about? we'll talk live with ben stein. d with terrible chest congestion. better take something. theraflu severe cold doesn't treat chest congestion. really? new alka-seltzer plus day powder rushes relief to your worst cold symptoms plus chest congestion. oh, what a relief it is. here we g

five years later grover cleveland's family had the first white house tree with electric lights. command near chief. >> roosevelt didn't agree or enjoy the idea of having christmas trees in the house because he was such an avid conservationist but he did buckle under to his children's wishes and actually they did have a tree a few years while they were in the white house. >> reporter: from the young roosevelts to the obama daughters, children have always added something to christmas at the white house. both private celebrations and public events, the spirit of the season the same as any address. in washington, i'm karen capa. >> we want to see your holiday traditions. share them by sending us the pictures. keep them coming. look at that doggie. send them to us at breaking news kron 4.com. we'll share them on the air, facebook and twitter. we'll be right back. >>> some chp officers were alerted when santa was making his rounds overnight. take a listen to what the officers heard on their radios? >> there appears to be a large red sleigh that reads ho ho ho being pulled by eight rai

investigators say she met the boy at a function at pot grover high school. police also say she used her cell phone to send him nude pictures of herself. >>> your time now 6:08. we continue to follow this morning's breaking news, several bodies have been found from the missing airasia plane. the very latest from overseas. >> also, another scare in the skies as flames shoot-out after engine, of a plane from philadelphia. now we're hearing from passengers on board that flight. >> also, there is a new theory on who is behind a hacking at sony. find out why some security experts think they could have been an inside job. >> and will you need few extra layers if headed out for the fireworks tomorrow night? katie has the fireworks forecast, and we do traffic and weather together on the 3's. we'll be right back. >>> six bodies, luggage other debris from have been slotted in the java sea near where airasia flight 8501. no sign of survivors. >> twenty-four year old man critically injured another killed, in a crash near wissahickon, roberts avenue in nicetown. two other

joe grover.get her purse back, american airlines offered carol 50,000 frequent flyer miles as an apology. >> markets are open, a half day of trading christmas eve. you know who is working full time? meg tirrell live at cnbc world headquarters with business headlines. good morning, meg. >> good morning. the dow looks to march higher today, after a close above 18,000 for the first time tuesday. futures are pointing to a higher open on wall street. stocks rose on strong gdp report which showed the economy grew more than expected this summer. dow went from 17,000 to 18,000 in less than 6 months. it's short day of trading today. markets close at 1:00 p.m. eastern. the dow rising 64 points to end at 18, 024. nasdaq fell 16 to 4765. bad news for last-minute shoppers. fedex and u.p.s. capping express holiday deliveries after a surge in packages led some to go over their agreed upon limits. trying to avoid a repet of last year when 2 million packages didn't make it on time because of bad weather and rush

traveling between willow grover and mid county toll plaza expect the usual.wo her delays at philadelphia international airport due to the weather. keep in mind because of the the weather, it is causing slick spots on the commute, so we have had a few accidents this morning. definitely be mindful to practice some extra caution today, ukee? >>> i'll take it, thank you. >>> gunman opens fire in a delaware county community shooting a dog through the neck. this morning police continue their search for that shooter. investigators say it happened on clinton road in upper darby on tuesday. police tell our todd quinones that this is part of the bigger problem. >> hi mom, look at how beautiful my baby is survived. >> reporter: bullet pierced through the dog's neck and shooter agitated upper darby police. >> the thing that really bothers me is the moran that did the shooting could have killed anybody. >> reporter: in this densely populated neighborhood on the 6900 block of clinton street, someone decided to open up fire, shooting deborah feliciano's dog. >> it went in t

we are looking at the grover cleveland christmas tree in the yellow oval room. linda, that is the second floor? second floor. so not on the main level. >> right above the blue room. >> here we see teddy roosevelt's son archie, he actually smuggled a small tree into the white house and hit it in a closet in the upstairs sewing room. why? >> because his father was a staunch conservative, and at that time they did not grow trees as a crop. they grew trees in the woods and people went out and saw them -- and cut trees and brought them home. the president being a staunch conservative, he decided he did not want a tree in the house because that did not fit his thinking on cutting down trees. >> he sounds like a grump. >> ba humbug. >> he made great parks. so -- >> here we have franklin roosevelt and his family. and more of the roosevelt white house at christmas time. that is -- the east room? >> yep. >> it looks like about heavy tree -- a bottom heavy tree. >> they look like heavy chandeliers. >> there he much so. and the eisenhower white house. and we see a lot of ti

a bill that had the support of the civil rights community as well as conservatives like grover norquist. we passed it. that's what the constitution said we had to do. and we sent it across the capitol, through the rotunda and across the capitol to the house of representatives where it fell into this dark and gloomy pit, never to be seen again. for 540 days now, we waited, waiting for the house of representatives to at least acknowledge it, maybe even to debate it, perhaps to change it, even to offer it on the floor of the house of representatives. but no, they chose not to. they chose to do nothing. a broken immigration system in the view of the house of representatives was to be left untouched. and so the president said time and again to speaker boehner when are you going to accept your responsibility when it comes to fixing this broken immigration system? and the speaker kept saying give me some time, give me some time, give me some time. 18 months passed, and the president said i'm sorry. i have to do something. if you are going to do nothing, nothing in the house of representatives

storytelling is not interviewing grover norquist in an office.t is usually policy officials being interviewed. i've got nothing against offices. but that is not interesting. it is not entertaining. it won't bring in people. storytelling is not stacking up all of the statistics, facts, and graphs. people will fall asleep. they will turn and walk away. the only way i think you could get this to work is if you distract people like in clockwork orange and force-feed information. we cannot do that. we are not in favor of that. what do we do instead? we end up ranting and complaining to our friends. we overwhelm them with information and typically come across like these people. [laughter] with apologies to my gluten-free friends in the audience. that is how we end up coming across. i write. i have got the statistic. i know i'm right. i've got the statistic. when you go in and start arguing, instinctively the brain releases endorphins and they dig in their heels and they don't want to listen to you. there is a better way. it is storytelling. it is how w

grover cleveland, frances cleveland, and let's see some of her style. >> was that painting in the style of sargent or by sergeant? >> i believe that one is in the style of sargent. >> this is a worth gown also. and it is silk indian muslin embroidered with orange blossoms and draped with a silk tulle falling from a circumstance circlet on her hand. >> you would travel to paris, go to his shop, and he would put together a look for you, and he was the first one who took coutures from being dressmakers to being someone who was all about big business and high art. and very often he'd tell his clients, i see new yellow, and he was sort of a dictator and much mocked in the press, but he was the first hugely successful established couture. you couldn't get better than this. >> his name is the one that pops up at the very beginning. >> this is also her wedding dress. >> ah. there is her wedding which happened in -- when did it happen? >> in the white house, i believe in the blue room if i remember correctly and that's an absolutely fictitious drawing. >> it was hidden from reporters. an announc