. >> we are here at the intersection of lexington and guilford. this is the 300 block. the fire department was called here just after 9:00 a.m. when a forklift working inside the building set of the carbon monoxide detectors and the building was evacuated. as yellow tape allated. around it. we are told that nine people reported feeling sick here, but none were transported to the hospital. >> they return to that forklift and it is determined that they have levels as high as 1000 parts per million. right now, they're just ventilating the structure, disabling the forklift so it is not operational and they continue to perform monitoring so there are no fumes or until they are not able to get any readings whatsoever. >> the court house remains closed at this moment. the tape is expected to be brought down in the next half- hour or hour or so. business will resume as normal this afternoon. >> onto another top story, can the president pick from the supreme court be impartial? that is what lawmakers are trying to figure out today in the confirmation hearings for judge descoto -

elizabeth lowry of guilford, kent ket, 100. retired pediatric nurse.d until she was 93 and helped develop an aids initiative to help young children. god bless her. clementine miller, she is from haverford, pennsylvania. attributes her longevity to good health, common sense, and curiosity. known for her gift of gab. how about that? lena, good old sweet lena trofi, providence, rhode island. 100 years old. still makes homemade ravioli on command. here is john leininger, georgia, 100 years old. world war ii vet, one of the few survivors of the u.s. drexel." believe it or not i remember that. o's his longevity to eating dandelions. dandelions. laurel wheeler, aiken, south carolina, 100 years old. proud to have lived through segregation and voting for the first time. attends church weekly. of course she is a minister. how about it, 100. lester, our beloved lester peabody of bother, mass, 101. patriarch of the family furniture business, started in 1899. and kept the business going through world war ii all through the depression. that's it. the other hardest w

he had gone down and looked at the battlefield guilford courthouse which was one of nathaniel green'sories. in the early 1781. it was fought in north carolina around greensboro, north carolina today and green had waged a brilliant campaign and he fought a great battle that did great harm to corn wallace's army and even then washington said to jefferson if only he had positioned those militiamen differently than he did. he would have scored a better victory. required a great deal on washington's part to say something like that. i don't think there's a any question the continentals were better soldiers than the militiamen, but washington didn't give them their full credit. they did a great many other things. they really sort of pacified the homefront that kept, they disarmed the loyalists. they kept them in check when the british conducted raids on seaports. it was usually the militia who came out and the militia was called to active-duty repeatedly during the war to augment the continental army and without them and their numbers washington could not have done as well as he did. >> barb