congressman charles halleck from indiana. while working to move civil rights legislation forward, president kennedy and leaders in the house went to minority leader halleck to ask for his help to get the bill through the judiciary committee. congressman halleck, despite having a small percentage of african-american constituents and despite receiving some criticism, agreed to help. when the civil rights act came to the judiciary committee, some committee members took issue with several of its provisions. after working with other committee members to take out some of the controversial provisions in the bill, congressman halleck and others went to work to convince their colleagues to support a more moderate version. in the end the bill passed the committee with bipartisan support. no one got 100% of what they wanted, but thanks to congressman halleck, the judiciary committee was able to move forward a strong bill that both republicans and democrats could be proud of. in private conversations shortly thereafter congressman hallec

grant and halleck were very upset with wallace. he did fight the second day but they shoved him aside after that. his job at this point in the war was to be commander of the union middle atlantic department which was -- he was military governor of baltimore. reading the same intelligence that the union high command guy didn't do anything. the other thing that helped him was the head of the b&o railroad had his network of intelligence who were the station masters all along the railroad. they're sending telegrams. wallace picked up on this and on his own -- do not forget, he was in hot water -- no orders. he gathered up 2800 men. he came down to the westernmost point of his jurisdiction which is right here. he set up on the eastern bank of the monocacy river. after the war, lew wallace became a novelist. he wrote the second-most popular novel -- ben-hur. he wrote a memoir. it was really quite refreshing compared to the drive memoirs -- dry memoirs. here you have the lew wallace writes the memoirs 30 years after the fact. when wallace

quinn halleck saw the ground open without warning. >> you could hear the crack of the cement and then just the roar of water as if you're at like a water park. >> reporter: outside officials shut down the pipe gradually to prevent a systemwide shock, while inside pauley pavilion, the mop-up began. >> we have some very old infrastructure that we are gradually replacing. >> unfortunately we lost a lot of water which is not ideal in the worst drought in the city's history. >> reporter: a los angeles water official defended the long delay in turning off the valve, saying we had to find the correct valve. closing off the wrong one would have left people without water. the loss in that break could have supplied more than 100,000 people with water for a day. as for sunset boulevard, it remains closed. >>> in gaza this morning hamas is dismissing an israeli offer of a four-hour cease-fire. attacks overnight killed more than 60 palestinians. at least 15 of them died when israeli tank fire hit a u.n. school used as a shelter. that attack happened hours after u.n. workers found hidden missiles i