and here is a really special artifact, much like the harriet tubman material we couldn't believe. this is a bible that we think was owned by nat turner. nat turner was an enslaved african who led a revolt in 1831, he led what was considered the largest slave revolt, and when nat turner was eventually captured, he had a sword and this bible. and the fact that this was passed on in the families and eventually donated to us is very powerful artifact that allows us to tell a story that is often left out which is the story of rebellion and desire for freedom at all costs. one of the things that is really interesting about a museum is that on the one hand you tell these grand stories. but on the other hand what you want to do is personalize it. and right here is really a simple document, a piece of paper that is hard to read, but what it is, it's a bill of sale for a young woman named polly who was a 16-year-old woman who was being sold from one person to another. in the 19th century. what i think is so powerful about this is to recognize that on the one hand this is a legal document. o

your affectionate wife, harriet.newby heeds this plea, goes from ohio to brown's mountain hideout in maryland carrying harriet's letters with him, and finally that october of 1859 brown leads 8 of his men -- 18 of his men across the potomac and into harper's ferry sparking this savage street battle, and the first of his men gunned down is dangerfield newby, shot dead in the street, 50 miles short of his goal of rescuing harriet who is sold a few months later to a slave owner in louisiana. so there's great deal at stake personally and collectively for the men and others caught up in this conflict. now, i'm not going to walk you through all the details of the raid tonight or the court and prison drama that follow and the tremendous impact this has on the nation, you'll have to read the book for that. but as a former journalist, i'll just say a word about this, these headlines i have up here on the left, one of many interesting things about this story is it occurs at a time when the telegraph is relatively new, and unli

this is a hymnal that harriet tubman owned. what is powerful, if you remember, when tubman would go south often to alert the enslaved that it was time to go, she would sing various hymnals, "swing low sweet chariot" "steal away jesus." tubman couldn't read but the fact she carried this hymnal for a large part of her life was a very moving and very powerful piece. and it seems to me that this museum has to tell what is one of the most painful stories in america, which is the story of enslavement. and there is -- there are few things as powerful as the shackle. these are the kind of shackles that were used during the period of enslavement. and what people forget is that slavery is also about control and violence and trying to coerce people to do unpaid labor. what i think we want to do is to be able to interpret slavery both as a system that helped the country economically and as a system that was shaped by the people who lived it but also recognizing that the enslavement of people continues to shape the way americans' identity i

harriet tubman never lost one person who she escorted to safety on the underground railroad. 19 times she goes back down south to bring black slaves to freedom. never loses a single passenger on the underground railroad. you know where i'm going with this. tuskegee airmen. never lost a bomber. every plane escorted, they got it back cyclic. >> a number of them ended up dying. the life expectancy of a pilot back then was about 15 missions. whites were told they only had to do 24 missions. blacks do not have the same thing. negroes were retiring. but because they were so limited, and number of tuskegee airmen, because the washout there were facing, the lack of educated ones -- these men had to go on 74 missions, on average. the possibility of being killed was triple. if not even more. that in itself shows a dedication to service. maybe that is what protected them. all of the bombers, whether they were english bombers, part of the allied forces, or a number of the other supporting french fighters -- all of those bombers have family members that are so thankful to the sacrifices the tuskeg

we are not trying to stop them from making this bigger home harriet we are asking if they could just make a little more light for us. we are not trying to stop the project, we are just holding for our interests. president miguel: project sponsor, you have two minutes if you wish. thank you. commissioner moore. commissioner moore: i always feel bad when the essence of discussions which could have happened between those people happen -- have occurred. i cannot comment on the particular comments i have. it is a heat said, she said, which we cannot comment on. it is something you need to work out with each other. and also have the courage to accommodate each other. you will be neighbors with or without this house. according to the analysis we have gone through, this is a modern addition. while we have opinions about that, it is a compliant addition except for the property in-line windows and. they need to be -- they are required to be obscured in addition to things that need to be in notice of special restrictions because the adjoining owner -- if the adjoining owner decides to do a simi

so harriet, the new england woman, had died the year before.nancy ridge went out -- excuse me, sarah ridge went on out to oklahoma, worked in the family general store, kept a pretty low profile, moved over into arkansas and privately grieved what happened. there were a lot of retribution activities and murderous reprisals on both sides after this because as you might be surprised to learn, john raz did not -- ross did not make a big effort to have these people arrested who had executed them. that whole phrase is kind of interesting. i've had historians call with the second word in my book which is "assassins." they were there to execute the law which said that if you sell tribal lands without tribal approval, then you deserve to be executed. and that was in tribal law, that was kind of a blood revenge that they were posed to put behind -- supposed to put behind them. so i made a decision this was an assassination, not an execution. sometimes the language get caught up in historians' arguments about, wait a minute, is it true they deserved to di

almost everybody that was in favor of ending slavery to include -- well, you know, later on harriet beecher stowe, even abraham lincoln up until '63, they all thought that once you ended slavery you had to send the freed african-americans somewhere else. back to africa, latin america, caribbean. this generation, the founders were extraordinarily imaginative in so many ways. they can imagine a larger public. they can imagine separation of church and state. they can imagine political parties. they could not imagine a bi-racial society. >> well, though, but the new york manumission society argues against that. >> really? >> they were not a colonistization group. and one of the things they did is they set up a school for block children in new york which were i think in the 1830s or 1940s, they were folded into the new york public school system. but they many projects. when they started off, they weren't abolitionists at all. one thing they did is they helped people who were being seized, you know, ott grounds oh, you're an escaped slave which was a bit fraudulent enterprise. they just grabbed p

have a big rise project for ninth and mission and doing a low-rise identity card-free project on harriet street. i would encourage you to adopt these amendments in their entirety because i think they are going to be very helpful in supplying, encouraging, and facilitating development in the c-3 areas. i think this is a good thing for what i view of -- at least five reasons. new development and a part of the town that can accommodate it. there is great transit and capacity to house new people. it also relieves pressure from outlying areas. the 20,000 new .comers that are coming have to live some place. if we can redirect a lot of their housing to these areas, they will not be putting pressure on outlying neighborhoods and single-family homes, raising the eyes of -- price of those. it will also revive housing close to jobs. we all know that is good for the city, transit, and good for the environment. a third matter is it would create huge number -- it would go a long way to create a huge number of jobs. both of us in the construction industry sorely need that right now. anything that the s

anti-psychotics remain america's top selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs says a medical doctor harrietfraud believes big pharma has manufactured a climate of insanity by manipulating and even creating illness for capital gains the advertising strategy is to have a big giant noses and then find wiggle room so that they apply to everybody prescription nexium the u.s. is the only western country that allows direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs this ad for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder warns that untreated patients will likely end up divorced and this commercial for so long and we'll learn this is to make you happier but side effects may include dry mouth insomnia sexual side effects diarrhea nausea and sleepiness the critics also say big pharma uses its financial muscle supply doctors with gives in cash kickbacks and research funding in exchange for endorsing or prescribe the latest and. lucrative drugs what you have is a whole network of doctors who are hustling these drugs if a patient comes in with a knee injury and says i'm so sad oh are you depressed hey wr

reggie kumar has more of a half and harriet >>reggie: the suspect was stopped here at mccrery, we areg some evidence on the pavement where all of this unfolded. they say gonzales' refused to get out of the suv and that is why one san jose police officer tays him through an open driver's side window. authorities say gonzales did not have a weapon on him. fee they say he has had a romance with the law in the past with investigators have not released those details. he was booked at the santa clara county jail and faces several assault with a deadly weapon charges on a police officer as well as carjacking and resisting arrest charges. >>darya: a funeral service is planned for later this week for the five-year old boy that was shot and killed at the family's talk of a truck in oakland last week. there is a fixture of the boy on the left. he was shot just a few feet away from his father and died when he got to the hospital. there have been no arrests made and a motive still is not clear. a man ordered a taco, started eating and an open fire. boys' funeral is set for friday morning at st. el

let us the very latest did 12 erica harriet >>erica: attack the morning james is finally filling liker around the bay area. but we have a clear star to the morning a pretty picture out there but he is a cold one. in fact occur in half freeze warnings in effect. you certainly want to bundle up at the head outside the door. take a look at the national weather service. we will be contending with subfreezing temperatures. you can see it highlighted in blue on your screen. you may want to scrape ice off your windshield. we will monitor the conditions for you in the traffic center. where is it the the temperature is right outside the door. it looks like san jose has dropped to the freezing mark along with los gatos. you will see widespread 30's around the bay area this morning. as we head into the afternoon it looks like this is by now he could reach 60 degrees. a few degrees warmer than what we saw yesterday. it looks like los gatos, san jose and morgan hill could be flirting with the 60 degree mark. a quick check from your satellite and radar shows what with activity and snowfall in the p

after that, they did a day of service at the harriet tubman day program sponsored by catholic charitiesin, thanks to everyone there. it was a beautiful day. beautiful singing by the choirs. >> congratulations. the pictures are beautiful. yeah, really nice. >>> well, all right, president obama got a standing ovation in his first public appearance for the martin luther king jr. holiday. more on that story coming up. >> after last night's face-off, the republican candidates have one debate left before saturday's crucial south carolina primary. >> it is a big day for birthdays today! actress betty white turns 90! actor james earl jones is 82 today. news anchor turned talk show host maury povich is 73. and boxing legend muhammad ali is 70. >> comedian steve harvey is 55. jim carrey is 50. michelle obama is 48 today. singer kid rock is 41. actress zoe dechannel turns 32 today. if it is your birthday today, happy birthday to you as well! >>> welcome back to 9news now. 5:45. it is a milder day today. we still have some school delays to tell you about. allegheny county in maryland and mineral co

so harriet had died the year before. nancy ridge went on out -- excuse me, sarah ridge went on out to oklahoma, work inside a family general store, kept a pretty low profile, moved over to arkansas and privately grieved what happened. there were a lot of retribution activities on both sides after this because you might be surprised to learn that john ross did not make a big effort to have these people arrested who had -- [inaudible] it's kind of interesting, historians quarrel with the second word of my book, assassins. no, those weren't assassins, those were executioners. they were there to execute the law, you sell land without tribal approval, then you deserve to be execute. and that was tribal law, but that was kind of a blood revenge they were supposed the to put behind them, so i made the decision this was an assassination, not an execution. the very language you use to talk about this can sometimes get caught up in a lot of historians' arguments. wait a minute, is it true they deserved to die? and by the letter of

harriet tubman was credited with freeing 300. john parker freed more than 900 people. what about the plantations? what he said was we will free ourselves. the thing i want us to think about was the audacity which is not a word -- i just made it up. the many ways our people have been phenomenal and the reason i raise it is for my young people, my younger sisters and brothers, if they could do that what could we do next? if they could do that, enslave people to free themselves by purchasing themselves, 25% of enslaved people were self emancipated in cincinnati. you bought yourself. i always think that this is a sixth thought, who ran away and who saved? if i could be a sociologist and go back in time, who bought themselves and who ran away i know i was a runaway slave. i wasn't paying nobody for nothing. but the woman who was -- a seamstress. there were many women. men's stories are more told the history belongs to shiva holds the pen. she not only paid for herself but supporter white family. she supported 17 people with her needle. let's talk about this. we found that -

and if it wasn't for frederick douglass and harriet tubman, william lloyd garrison, so many others, they say, you know what? 2007 all of this -- given all of this ridge that's surfacing -- rage that's surfacing just like in the occupy movement, you can either go toward anger, revenge, bigotry or toward love, justice and equality. that has been the fundamental role of the black prophetic tradition from frederick douglass to a. phillip randolph to ida w. wells bar net to ella baker to martin luther king jr. to stevie wonder. i know his music was playing when we came in. [applause] how is it that when these black people who have been terrorized and traumatized and stigmatized for so long, hated for so long keep dishing out all of this love? that's a fundamental question. that's what i love about carl dix. y'all might look at him and see just a communist. i look at him and see a black man who loves poor people and working people, and he's working out his alternative vision, and he's been true to it for the last 45 years. and even if i disagree with x and y, i can keep track of the love. [app

there wasn't for frederick douglass, harriet tubman, william lloyd garrison, so many others that you know what, given all of this raise that's everything, just like in occupying the land, a fork in the road go towards anger, revenge, picardy or goes to a love, justice and equality. that has been a fundamental role of the plot prophetic tradition from frederick douglass toa philip randolph to ida b. wells or penny lou hammond or alice baker two might make king junior, to stevie wonder. i knew it was his plan it was his plan when they came in. how is it that when this by people who have been terrorizing and chama ties and stigmatize for so long, hated for so long keep dishing out all of this love. but the fundamental question or that's what i love about carl dix. you all might look and see just the communists. i see a black man who has poor people and working people in a smirking at his alternative vision and he's been true to it for the last 45 years. even if i disagree, i can keep track of the love that's what we need to do to each and everyone of us because if you have courage comin

that's the harriet miers nomination. i look a summit old enough to have the wisdom and maturity that comes through life experiences but young enough to be on the court for 30 to 40 years and impact jurisprudence of this country. and for the same reason of longevity. i took into consideration the health of the nominee. fifth, and this is most important, although i am talking about it last, was the judicial philosophy of the potential nominee. my views about judicial philosophy are a matter of public record. judges should apply the law, not impose their own policy preferences. when courts apply and active philosophy that affects the law to suit their policy preferences, they reduce the credibility of the authority of the judiciary. in so doing they undermined the rule of law that strengthens our democracy. but in contrast, a judge humbly understands the role of the court and our system of government decide cases based upon totally neutral principles. he or she generally differs the judgment of the political branches, and r