he leaves the meeting and goes to see bob hartman again, and hartman goes ballistic. he says you should have grabbed hague and thrown him out of the office. who told you? and he says i got this from a white house lawyer that that option is there, and that there was a lawyer in the white house, and then they remembered that richard nixon was a lawyer, and ford says, yes, maybe i left him with the wrong impression, and hartman says what you have to do is call jack marsh, a former congressman, and he would become secretary of the army. ford meets with march, marsh here's the story, and marsh in ely understands the gravity of the situation. he has left richard nixon believing that there could be a pardon, and they wanted to get the troops together. i want you to talk to hartman again and one of nixon's loosest advisors who is still working in the white house, and they both tell ford, you can't leave this this way. this becomes important. they are all three in the room. ford picks up the phone and called alexander haig and says, and i am paraphrasing here, i am under no ob

haig is surprised that ford brings with him bob hartman. hartman, a former newspaper reporter and good friend of vice president ford's was brought in to this meeting not just because bob hartman went to every meter, he did with vice president ford. but ford knew something was up and he needed a witness. haig tells ford in this meeting, he could hardly get rid of them haig tells ford that what is going to happen in the next 24 hours could possibly be the tipping point in the nixon presidency. he doesn't give a handout. haig knows that the tapes are going to come to the white house. haig absolutely knows that the tapes are going to come to the white house. ford thought that haig was holding something back. in a moment you'll see what haig was holding back. and he talks to hartman on the way out and he says well i kind of heard this before you know, no great problem. i'm going to keep my speeches today. and hartman goes to his office. ford then gets another phone call from al haig. he says mr. vice president, i need so see you and you can't br

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and steve hartman with cops following the letter of the law. >> hello, ma'am. your vehicle was targeted. >> mason: and the spirit of the season. >> oh, my gosh! are you serious? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> mason: good evening. scott's on assignment. i'm anthony mason. the f.b.i. confirmed today that the communist north korean government was behind the hack attack against sony pictures entertainment. at his year-end news conference, the president promised the u.s. will respond. he did not say how or when. he did say sony should not have pulled the movie "the interview" in response to the hackers' terror threat, suggesting it set a bad precedent. major garrett at the white house begins our coverage. >> we cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the united states. >> reporter: the president said he understood sony faced serious financial and liability issues but said the company should not have caved. >> i am sympathetic to the concerns that they faced. having

and steve hartman "on the road" with a couple who found love. is where the heart is. >> i think we fell in love the moment we seen each other. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> dubois: good evening. scott is off tonight. i'm maurice dubois. this is our western edition two days after a new york city grand jury cleared a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man, the protests are growing larger and spreading across the country, including boston and chicago. and now another new york grand jury, this one in brooklyn, is about to investigate the shooting of another unarmed black man. michelle miller begins our coverage. >> i can't breathe! i can't breathe! >> reporter: today, the chant on the streets of chicago was like thousands heard last night in new york-- >> i can't breathe! >> reporter: -- at a protest in minneapolis. >> i can't breathe. >> reporter --and at a die-in on the campus of clemson university. >> i can't breathe. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. >> reporter:

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and steve hartman. it began with a routine traffic stop. >> how you doing, ma'am? >> i was good until you pulled me over. >> pelley: but this story is about to take a sharp turn "on the road." captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. parts of california so desperate for rain got it in buckets today from a fast-moving storm hitting the west coast. at least a billion gallons of water fell into los angeles reservoirs, a year's supply for at least 30,000 people. but drought relief came at a price. at least two dead in oregon, flooded roads, mud slides, and now a massive cleanup. we have two repors, beginning with bigad shaban in los angeles. bigad. >> reporter: scott, the mud slide buried this neighborhood after just about two inches of rain fell in a matter of hours. now, last year, a wildfire actually burned much of the vegetation along these nearby hillsides, so when the rain came down, the dirt had nothing to hold onto. on this street in the community of camarillo, there's mu

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steve hartman, on the road, in kansas city, missouri. >> i know it looks like it certainly was a very merry christmas for a loft people there. what a great story. we're back in 30 seconds. >>> good morning, it is 8: 25, this monday morning, i'm diana rocco. new this morning a 711 robbed on the main line, happened midnight 5900 block every city avenue. investigators tell us two men walk in and demanded cash. one of the robbers had a gun. we're told they got a which with cash, lottery tickets, and cigarette. the store cashier was taken to the hospital for a back injury after getting pushed up against a wall by one of the robbers. now right to carol for a look at the forecast, good morning. >> good morning to you, high shall everybody. we have blue skies over philadelphia. they won't last long, so get out, enjoy them if you can. but you can see it looks like a nice bright start here. not as bright every place else. storm scan3, showing that there are clouds and number of locations and precipitation moving in from the south. it is going to be rain in our area, so we can expect to find som

jennifer acre and stacy hartman mendez got their videos. we helped to get their videos edited. >> i get emotional every time i watch it. >> dalvo never showed for at least a couple of weddings. the "action news" came was there as they took him into handcuffs to his first court appearance. >> i hope that you guys spends a much time doing this to me once you find out what happened. >> tell us what happened? >> if i had time i am sure i could. >> can you say anything about what happened? >> you really need to go and ask my father. >> dalvo said that his father left for florida and left him in his position. he sold his son the business. they gave their money directly to the younger mike dalvo. >> 44 victims that we had today. after this airs i am hoping that more people will see the story. he is charged with theft by taking and unacceptable business practices. he stole more than $40,000. >> if you think that you have case ben salem police want to hear from you. you can call them. and dalvo is in bucks county prison and $75,000 bail. >>> thank y

. >> osgood: steve hartman tells us latest what may be nation's least loved christmas tree.avid edelstein as pictures, we'll take measure of the christmas wreath. here are the headlines for the 7th of december, 2014. two hostages held by al qaeda militants have died after unsuccessful rescue mission. david martin reports from washington. >> the first attempt to rescue luke sommers ended in frustration. the second in his death. two weeks ago american command owes stormed the hide out where sommers was held only to find he had been moved just days before. after that raid al qaeda released video of sommers threatened to execute him if its demands, never spelled out, were not met in three days. with the clock ticking down to the final 24 hours team of 40 u.s. navy seals flew in to yemen and hiked to a large walled compound where sommers ever being held. as they approached the compound at that time 1:00 saturday morning something, perhaps a barking dog, gave the seals away. video purporting to show the resulting firefight was posted on a jihadi website. in the middle of the fight

steve hartman watches a secret santa at work. techno-claus is back with tips for holiday gifts. plus the brightest in christmastime lights and more. first headlines for this sunday morning the 14th of december, 2014h14. crowded streets and cities across the nation yesterday marchs were to call attention to the recent deaths of unarmed black men and boys at the hands of police. after an unusual saturday session, the senate has approved a $1.1 trillion spending bill. president obama to sign to keep the government operating through september. california is cleaning up from last week's stormy weather that included a rare tornado in los angeles. power has now been restored everywhere, some roads including stretch of the pacific coast highway remain closed. marcus mayo that is is this mariota is the quarterback of the oregon ducks is best player last night in new york. the first hawaii native to win the award. duke and duchess of cambridge released latest crop of photos of 17 month old prince george. he's the third in line for the throne. in case you missed it yesterday of 12-13-14. d

christian hartman is at the stadium, where the 49ers will wrap up a disappointing seasonal. >> if all the rumors are true, coach harbaugh will make tens of mills of dollars wherever he goes. today he didn't give off the impression of a deadman walking. >> jim harbaugh was at the podium for a whole two minutes before questions surrounding his possible firing came up. >> in typical fashion, he said what will happen, will happen. >> i've not participated in any of the speculation, the unnamed sources, the rumors. >> according to an espn report, the rumor is the 49ers coach will be fired within 24 to 48 hours after the team's final game of the season this sunday. he has one more year with the team left on his contract, but harbaugh spoke about the upcoming season finale with a tone of finality. >> i'm going to enjoy it. i'm going to enjoy all the players. enjoy the coaches, the staff, enjoy all the people in the building that i really love enjoy being around. the trainers and the front office people, the entire organization. i spent time with the scouts when they are in town, just everybo

steve hartman, on the road, in kansas city, missouri. >> yep, the good always outweighs the bad. is 6:56 right now. and philadelphia student are learning about the meaning of kwanzaa. a charter school celebrated the holiday with display of arts and crafter, in east germantown. celebrated on the seven guiding principals. kwanzaa. the goal to unite the families. kwanzaa officially begins december 26 and ends january 1st. >>> well that's it for "eyewitness news" at 6:00. here's what we have for you coming up at 7:00. medical breakthrough gives a local grandmother the gift of site this holiday season. stephanie stahl explains. plus, while shopping for christmas, many are offering to buy on line, makes sense, number of retailers offering free shipping. but is it really free? >> chilly sunday today, carol sunday with your weekly forecast next. i hear you're quite the expert at waking people up in the morning. let me show you how grandma does it. ♪ you're daddy made this when he was a little boy. ♪ this is your dad in my house, where he had his first christmas. thanks for making the cof

meet julie hartman, mother to four boy, including two in service.cut. >> especially at the holidays, that's the hardest. >> reporter: dominique and zach are with her. but nicolas and his wife cannot afford the trip from his california base. >> he has been the one that's so family oriented and it's so important for him for all of us to be together and the one person that can't be here, is -- that's tough, right? >> reporter: in fact nicolas hasn't been able to see his brother michael in three years because of deployments. michael forced to miss nicolas' wedding last year. >> for the wedding, we thought he was going to be able to go. >> they changed the date four times. >> it was so perfect at one point where he was going to be deploying to afghanistan, michael, but he was going to be just in time to be nick's best man at the wedding. >> reporter: but michael's deployment date was moved up at the last minute, forcing him to leave the date of the wedding. michael sending an emotional video toast in his absence. >> the army has seen fit for me to go and

and steve hartman. it began with a routine traffic stop. >> how you doing, ma'am? >> i was good until you pulled me over. >> pelley: but this story is about to take a sharp turn "on the road." captioning sponsored by cbs

steve hartman tags along on one man's very long trip to the office.ill geist watches "gone with the wind" fans going all out but first headlines for this sunday morning. 21st of december. first day of winter. new york city is mourning the shooting death of two police officers killed in their patrol car yesterday afternoon. gunman may have target them for the chokehold death of eric garner in new york and michael brown case in missouri. we have report from mark albert. >> the ambush came in a brooklyn neighborhood. police say man named ishmael brinsley shot wenjian liu and rafael ramosz you are our hearts are heavy. we lost two good men who devoted their lives to protecting all of us. >> after the shooting brinsley killed himself in a subway station. he posted this message on instagram three hours before the shooting. it has not been independently verified. it reads, quote, i'm putting wings on pigs today. they take one of ours let's take two of their's. rest in piece mike brown and eric garner this may be my final post. >> frustrated with the results

and steve hartman. it began with a routine traffic stop. >> how you doing, ma'am?s good until you pulled me over. >> pelley: but this story is about to take a sharp turn "on the road." captioning sponsored by cbs

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and steve hartman with cops following the letter of the law. >> hello, ma'am. your vehicle was targeted. >> mason: and the spirit of the season. >> oh, my gosh! are you serious? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

and steve hartman with cops 'allowing the letter of the law. >> hello, ma'am.e was targeted. >> mason: and the spirit of the season. >> oh, my gosh! are you serious? captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley.

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and in montgomery county, a live look at route 309 near hartman road where low beams need to be on because of the foggy conditions there. finally, delaware county, on 95 right near highland avenue, they're also dealing with foggy conditions. philadelphia drivers, there was an accident right near oxford circle on route 1 southbound, the roosevelt boulevard southbound. that's since cleared, but we are still following an accident on the new jersey turnpike southbound right as you pass the exit for route 322, which is exit number 2. vai? >> thank you, katy. >>> the university of texas at austin wants to know where about 100 of its brains are. that's about half the specimens the school had in the collection of brains preserved in jars of formaldehyde. a curator of the collection said students may have been swiping the brains for years for pranks or conversation pieces. >>> well, if you shopped online monday, you are a part of history. next, the clicks that set a new record. >>> and hope for a saving grace. the ultimatum posed to local students and parents that has them rushing to save their sch

. >> and don't forget "mary hartman, mary hartman." >> i want to start out with the name, "even this i get to look at the posters and my book and even this. i get to experience. >> i want to talk about "all in the family." every week we all sat down and watched it and everybody says there was such wonderful social comementary commentary. was it by design? >> it wasn't so much by design. it was men and women writers, prue deesers, directors, and we were relating to our experiences as parents, as fathers as children. we were scraping the barrel of our own experience. we weren't looking to do anything that was obvious. >> but you were pushing the envelope. you made the nixons' enemy list and jerry fall well. >> and didn't carroll o'connor say he didn't know if the audience would trust him and like him? >> that was an honest question. since i grew up hearing everything we had to do with in schoolyards let alone in homes and so forth, i had no question in my mind that we were simply dealing with the truth in american life and the things that were impacting american families. it was no big

identified two more of the six victims and tease are passengers on that plane. 52-year-old david hartman and 31-year-old, the two passengers as i said on that jet. >>> a mother originally from our area and two of her children in the house were also killed. this is a picture of 36-year-old mar margie gem dwgemmell and her tw. >>> christopher murray is charged with killing his wife connie. police say he strangled her in august after they had an argument. her husband confessed. at today's preliminary hearing, his public defender argued his client didn't mean to kill her. >>> a father and son made a really surprising discovery just hunting in the woods in berks county. it wasn't an animal, it was a cash machine. the pair came upon this stand alone atm and police are trying to unravel the mystery of how the machine got there. if you know where it came from, pennsylvania state police would sure like to hear from you. >>> today the power of high heels and how women can use that kind of footwear to get results from the opposite sex. >>> but first, here's what we're working on for you at 5:00. >>

high point university and freed hartman university in tennessee previously distanced themselves from the comedian. >>> 6:33 right now. new from overnight in philadelphia, police are trying to track down a 15-year-old boy accused of attacking his uncle. it happened just after 9:30 last night on sentner street in lawncrest neighborhood. witnesses say the man's 15-year-old nephew punched him during an argument. they found a pair of pliers and a screw driver next to him. >>> the search is on for a hit and run driver just before 9:00 last night. police say a volvo station wagon hit a man. the driver kept going. the victim is in critical condition. >>> and new this morning, investigators are on the hunt for a bank robber in bucks county. showing you photos taken from the bank's surveillance camera. walk under to the first national bank of newtown before closing time yesterday and he demanded cash. witnesses say there was no get away car and he did not have a weapon. no one was hurt. >>> two college students from south jersey are charged with sexually assaulting a female student at william

. >> debbie is actually actress and comedian kara hartman. >> i have always done characters and weirdnd my sister and my brothers. >> in june of 2011 kara is in her bedroom when inspiration strikes. >> the line came into my head, i want to hug every cat but i can't because it's crazy, and that made me laugh. so i was like, i should do something with that. >> that something is a fake online dating video using the alias debbie. >> hello, my name is debbie. every time i'm introduced to a debbie i automatically think she loves cats and just improvised the whole thing. i love cats. i promised i wouldn't cry. the art of fake crying is just, you just get really overwhelmed and embarrassed and just kind of cover your face and just give me a second. like that. >> kara uploads the video to youtube. >> i had no intentions of it going viral, nobody seeing it other than my friends. >> but friends pass it on to other friends and within days the hot mess becomes the hottest video on the web. >> it was unreal. it hit a million a day for two weeks straight. >> and i want them in a basket, and i want l

we bring in margaret hartman, who recently wrote about what we can expect next in the eric garner caseank you so much for being with us. you wrote a great piece about what we can expect from all angles. we saw videos of the protests last night. everyone is feeling it across the country. i can't even imagine how the garner family is feeling at this moment up. write about the fact they are seeking now $75 million from the nypd and the city. what will come of that? >> right. so, the grand jury decision this week was just the end of the state civil criminal case against officer pantaleo. the family has already filed their civil suit and that has nothing to do with what happened this week. so that can move forward. they're is accusing the officer and nypd of various forms of negligence, wrongful death, assault. there's a lower burden of proof in civil cases, as we know, so the jury in that case only has to decide whether there's a preponderance of evidence if there was police misconduct. they don't have to prove he's guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. >> they basically mean more than 50/50,

holidays in six years until "gma" stepped in. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> reporter: and for julie hartmanlitary thousands of miles apart reun e reuniting this band of brothers after four years it it was a true christmas miracle. >> thank you so much for bringing our family together. happy holidays, happy new year. >> it's really fantastic to see those and just want to quickly say on behalf of abc news we want to apologize to technology's family. he does love you. he has a funny way of showing it and that's fine. >> cool, that works, right? >>> all right, well, coming up we'll look back at the best moments of the year, the biggest news and the craziest fun, who could forget ginger's fearless sky dive. walks of life. if you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. it's a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. along with diet and exercise, farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. with one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. and, although it's not a weight-loss or blood-pressure drug, farxiga may help you lose wei

would like unanimous consent to enter a record of letter from cbo director and an article by a tom hartman -- and henry waxman. >> without objection. >> recognize myself for five minutes. its at least to me it is apparent today with what we have heard that americans now know that government transparency under this administration simply means what you see is not what you get. ms. tavenner do you believe obamacare was crafted in a way to be transparent to the taxpayer? >> i certainly believe the of work i have been a part of the last five years has been transparent. >> that was obamacare crafted in a way to be transparent? >> i was not here during the crafting it. >> you say to is bertillon dash transparent with its implementation and? you have been here for that. >> we have tried to be transparent and provide documents including those we sent yesterday. we have already provided 135,000 pages of documents and provided more than 1,000 transcribed interviews we have tried to. >> but not completely. >> whenever we can. >> another term in this hearing whenever we can, i don't recall, probably re