the idea is, you can kill the surface of the tumor >> hell yep helen -- helen says it is important to get the right diagnosis since this is hard to spot. >> my prognosis is very good at this point. it has been two years since my surgery. there is a lot of hope. >> lisa robinson, wbal-tv 11 news. >> and joining us now with more information is dr. gushen. thank you for coming in. >> thank you very much. >> she is lovely, very brave, and doing well. >> yeah. she is a wonderful woman. she went through the treatment very well, and she has a very positive outlook. >> it is very important. another thing important, this surgery is still quite controversial. why? >> well, it was considered to be experimental 20 or 15 years ago. now more and more centers consider it a way to go in very specific stage four cancers that spread over the peritoneal surface. we accumulate a lot of data to support our approach, but it takes time for the medical community to come around. >> ok. and so you are saying particularly people that do not take this radical approach, they go through things piecemeal, and that

helen? >> all right. [laughter] >> i'd probably bust 'em in the mouth. [laughter] but, no. .. and make sure they understand that you have ever damn bit as good as they are, and you are as critical, or more so, and that you work very hard and you're not asking for any favors, and you want to be recognized. [applause] >> that's a great statement. >> barbara, what would you add? >> don't know i can improve on that. always useful to try to find some allies. and there are some men today who are quite enlightened. one of the -- there are others, and if you're trying to get somewhere in an organization and you're a woman, it'siful to fine some allies -- it's useful to find allies who are male. it's always good to have women supporting each other, and 40 years ago, one thing that stands out to me is the women who were there were supportive of each other, and that should continue today, but it's always useful to find allies. again, be assertive and recognize your own value. and that's just basic. >>

until helen.and then the pace picked up at this rather remarkable when you think of it. >> what about the reception though in other, around the administration? you were depending on individual departments and agencies to do what you were telling them they had to do. >> and we were helping them. we were pushing, and i was out there beating the bushes. we divided the country into 10 regions, and i would go and make speeches and set up a network of contacts. i was building a talent bank of women so that if they wanted to fill whatever job, they could, and tap our talent bank. of course, i was doing that, too. i was trying to spot places where they're going to be opens -- openings. >> what kind of reception we getting when you said we want women to come into government? >> i would say my technique was more targeted. i would find a job or a term of an appointee that was coming up. and do what i would try to do, frankly, was to go to the powers that be, and that would've been ahead of presidential perso

. >> reporter: helen spearing was an 11-year-old girl sleeping in a murphy bed. the kind of bed that lifts up and shuts into an alcove in the wall. >> i remember i was in a bed and the bed started to go up and was going to close and be up there with me in it. i got out of there in a hurry. >> reporter: betsy shum's parents decided to clear out of their china townhome. >> my father they don't have any time to pack any clothing. my father have to carry my mother out, and a neighbor has to carry me out. >> reporter: san franciscans balked -- walked out of one horror to the other. >> he said toya look at san francisco burn. and the sky the whole sky was red, red as a beautiful sunset. >> reporter: but was a disaster for adults adults was an adventure for children. >> dad took us to the top of the fairmont. from there we saw four big fires at 10:00 in the morning. big fires. >> reporter: men formed volunteer groups to fight the fires and got a nasty surprise. san francisco's water system was entirely inadequate to the task. gist to name one problem the -- just to name

joining me, helene >>> we're back with our roundtable. joining me white house correspondent for "the new york times," helene cooper, and from the "washington post," bob woodward, and author of "where men win glory," and an iraq war veteran, paul rieckhoff. welcome to all of you. i wish we did not have the focus on this conversation. you have a tragedy in afghanistan with the death of afghan civilians and the tragedy of our forces, some of whom are put in a situation where the cost of war is so high, it's affecting them in the theater of war, war that goes on and on. we see the photo of robert bails, and more is being learned about him. more in the headlines have come out about what may have been behind this rampage is also striking. he was a soldier strained by deployments. it was his fourth deployment between iraq and afghanistan, and this caught my eye this week about the question of what was behind this, and where military institutions are failing our soldiers. and a retired major wrote this in the washington post. before we get too in

. >> reporter: sam helene is a friend who recently tried to help mcguire.order to keep gilberti away, but it would not work. >> heather was saying does something have to happen? do i have to get killed? >> reporter: and that is exactly what happened. >> i'm sick of them. a family has been destroyed. she was a mother of six. we just want it to be safe. >> reporter: doesn't seem like a lot to ask. >> no, it doesn't. >> reporter: but it was too much to ask last week. helene says gilberti showed up at his house because he knew heather was there. >> he was banging on the window. i told her call 911 of. >> reporter: since she already had a protective order gilberti went to jail. >> she calls me the next day and says he got out on $4,500 bond. i'm like how? >> reporter: helene says he followed her and early sunday morning police picked gilberti up and took him to jail again. >> the police did their job well over and over. they knew him. they knew what he was about and they responded like that. they picked him up like that. >> reporter: helene said he assured heath

helen and the darkness about? >> the frightful moment which presented itself once in my owner personal life when you think you've lost it. you think it's come to an end where you can't actually produce any more. your journey's over but you don't want it to be over. nobody wants to and that's what the play really deals with is how helen realizes the inevitablity and what lies beyond is anybody's guess but we cannot escape mortality. we can make gestures of defiance. we can say no like but it's a pessimistic courage. >> rose: so you have to at some point come to terms. i assume that's what happens in the end that at some point you come to understand the role that death plays. and when you come to that conclusion and you're willing to accept it that this is the way it has been and no one, no one has ever defeated death. >> no one of will. >> rose: then you can some how come to some -- good it defends on what -- >> rose: you haven't lost your capacity. >> it also depends on what life you've lived at that moment becaus

from the "washington post," bob woodward, and from the "new york times" helene cooper. and finally, my conversation with george clooney to stop ethnic cleansing in sudan. nbc-universal television >>> good morning, puerto rico, universal television >>> good morning. >>> good morning, puerto rico, 48 hours to go until the big stakes illinois primary, 54 delegates on the line there. >> we're going to show on tuesday the conservative movement in illinois is alive and well on election night on tuesday. >> after a pair of third place finishes in alabama and mississippi, mitt romney is fighting hard for a rebound in illinois trying to cement his delegate lead. he stands at 423, and santorum at 184. and here to talk about the fight here at home and abroad, arizona senator, john mccain. senator, welcome back. >> thank you, david. >> i want to talk about afghanistan, but i want to start with politics. where we are in this race, rick santorum was interviewed on the "today" program this week, and he made a strong point. watch it. >> if you can't with an overwhelming money advantage

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after the intruder left, paul found helen on the living room floor. feels like there's a sense of fear and anxiety. >> this is my life. i work with cold case defectives. >> helen's brother, jake hill, is hardly surprised police haven't solved his sister's case. >> the fact that i still see a homicide division that is under resourced and i think ill equipped with good people still is shocking to me. >> morals police chief ronald told us he is working to fick the problem. they're recruiting new officers and the city has also started a cease-fire program that recruits people from violent neighborhoods to serve as mediators, and the cold case unit now has four full-time officers. >> is there a message that you're trying to send to those who are committing all these crimes? >> we're coming after you like a dog and a bone. >> with all due respect, you're not the first mayor to tell me things are going to improve, we're going to fix this, we're going to change this. why should i believe you or even the people of new orleans -- why should we think this is goi

thanks, helen. as i mentioned, all these artifacts come down to the lab and they're washed, sorted and then cataloged. then eventually restored. and this is an example of some of the units that we've -- we've recovered from the south yard. these are actually units that we were working on this past week. when we closed out that level, this is 1907, one of the five by five foot squares, the occupation layer, has all the trash remains from the slave households. for example, you get ceramic here. this is a piece of transfer printed willow ware. you can identify the pattern from the edge here and the pattern right there. so these are the artifacts in their so-called native state. still having the virginia clay soil on them. here's a wine bottle fragment. the glasswares, the ceramics, these can all be washed in water. we use a toothbrush to clean them. the iron is dry brush. this if you submerge this in water, it's going to destabilize the iron and it's going to begin to corrode at a more rapid rate. the

part of that, helene, is u.s. influence around the world. the u.s. role on the word.eset of the foreign policy look like in the face of, you know, emerging threats, iran, on going threats, and to paul's point, if the army is so tired and our troops are so tired, so is the country, and war weary. the idea that we can keep meeting obligations in the leadership tests, it strains a reasonable outlook about political politics and presidential leadership? >> you see that again and again and again now when you see the foreign policy -- the national security challenges we are facing right now. you see, unlike iraq now with the iran situation, iran's nuclear program, you see much more discretion about what would happen on day two after an american military strike, and with syria you heard senator mccain talking about the need for leadership on syria, but at the end of the day the obama administration does not want to do any sort of military action in syria because it's so complicated. we have to take into account the entire load that this entire military apparatus has been und

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. >> sister helen is a petite fireball, very persuasive. she has made abolishing the death penalty her mission in life. sister helen is a tireless opponent of the death penalty. it is her life. in 1981, she began a prison ministry in more land than became a spiritual advisor to louisiana death row inmate and a witness to six state executions. she wrote a best-seller and the movie "dead man walking" is based on it. >> it is about the weight social change comes in this country and it's happening around the death penalty. we see it diminishing across the country in practice. >> legislation to repeal the maryland the death penalty and enforce a maximum sentence of life without parole is in limbo. the wood to transfer money saved from eliminating the death penalty to strengthen services provided to families of murder victims. >> the death penalty does not do anything to health victims. it's an illusory, false promise. >> the republicans and three democrats on record opposing appealing capital punishment. in the house -- it has 66 co-sponsors, bu

thank you. >> my name is helen johnson. i am resident of the gateway. i am not here to talk about myself interest. i live in the village, and i love living there because for someone my age it has all ages, and it has been such a wonderful privilege for me to live there. i am most concerned about the social aspect. our society is in turmoil. we had all of these protests about the upper 1 percent. this project will be not only for the upper%, but many people from abroad. that is not about the breadth and more. -- that is not about the neighborhood anymore. in san francisco where freedom is so prized, keep that in mind when you are making this decision. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is daniel delancy. i would like to talk with you today about how i feel the proposal would negatively impact the aquatics and outdoor recreation space available to the entire community. first, i would like to describe a few of the programs that are offered for kids, middle-class and elderly. while some people think of it as a tennis and swim club, is actually much more.

with this helen taft variety, we made the cross back in 1981. a long-term endeavor. >> wow. >> in fact, are there some 70 varieties of the cherry blossom trees right now? >> well, it depends on what you call variety. at the arboretum we've got over 400 different geno types. so there's a lot. a lot of diversity. >> and one more to add. >> that's right. >> and those trees are out now, or when can we expect to see them? >> the helen taft variety is just now in the hands of those trying to get it propagated, so about five years before it's available at retail places. >> margaret pooler, research leader with the usda and the national arboretum. thank you so much. >> fascinating. thank you. very cool. >> it is. guess what? we have more coolness from the tidal basin coming your way, and we'll check with headlines and chris wallace as well, congressman paul ryan is on the show talking about the budget battle on the hill. lots more to come here on fox 5 morning news. >> we'll be right back. Ñ [ male announcer ] this was how my day began. a little bird

now, last thursday heather mcguire moved in to sam helene's house because she was afraid gilberti was out to get her. >> brutalized her, stalked her, broke her down psychologically, broke her down physically. >> reporter: after gilberti was arrested the second time, helene says no one thought he'd be getting out of jail. >> did anyone call her to tell her he was out? >> no. >> reporter: tuesday morning sam helene goes to court himself to get a peace order against gilberti. he sees gilberti is out of jail and knows heather is home alone. trouble is on the way. while sam helene was in court getting that protective order phil gilberti comes to the house in aspen hill, kicks in the back door, goes inside, beats up heather mcguire, drags her out, puts her in her van, and then takes off. minutes later philip gilberti shoots and kills his wife inside that van and dumps her body in kensington. later that night, gilberti kills himself at a friend's home in rockville. now gilberti had an extensive criminal record in montgomery county. it goes back to the '80s. we tried to talk to judge hamilton

the movie was the cook, the thief, that one -- with helen merrin, who is absolutely fabulous -- helen mirren, fabulous actress. he showed me some painting of rembrandt and said, "uc that? could you do the in modern, in today? and i said i will try. yes, but it is part of the job. so i tried. i worked with a dutch artistic director, and i get to work with him. he was very specific and fabulous man. also, they were very specific about the color. in reality, they asked me because the color is a little like in the spirit. it is something in common. i was flattered to do that, but it is beautiful to see how much they are -- our work, our demand is to make a beautiful movie. i should not be able to do anything. i never thought about it, but when people ask me, you have to be so clever. >> tom ford made a movie, so why not you? >> because my brain is not that sure. you have to think about so many things. truly, it is a big work. you have to be strong. you have to take care also of the physiology of the actor which is, like, oh, my god. you can be depressed. also, you see the depression of ev

helen keller playground reopening. this is truly some great news from the mission, with generous donations of more than one part $5 million from the mercer fund in honor of helen diller. with the great support of the friends of the delors park playground and other stakeholders. our major renovation of the delores park playground has been completed. we will be hosting a grand opening event on march 31 starting at 2:00 p.m., including air ribbon cutting ceremony, music, and entertainment for children and families. if you have had the opportunity to drive by the playground, it is truly spectacular. spurring extravaganza. april 7, another family- friendly end on april 7 with egg hunts, carnival rides, games, live entertainment, and the animal -- annual barbecue read cookoff. park and directing staff, police department staff, and fire department. richmond station has taken the rib award two years running. a lot of teams are ready to topple them. presells start on march 26. this is one of our great four family-friendly even

quarter inch screen like we do at the site, we wash it through window screen, and what you can see helen doing is she's washed down some of the soil through the window screen and you can see the small artifacts coming out. fish bone, egg shell, straight pins, smaller pieces of ceramic and glass that would be lost at the site. there is some element, some groups of artifacts we would never recover if we didn't go through the process. what we do is we soak the soil in these buckets of water and what happens is all the sediment sinks to the bottom, that is what helen is water screening right now, but then the charred wood floats to the top and we've skimmed the charred wood off because what we find with the charred wood, and this sample has a few specs of charred wood, you can see right here and smaller black flecks which are not just charred wood but charred -- we dry it, and send it over to a paleobotonist who can identified the specimens that can't be seen. what we're able to get from this is more evidence about in this case the slaves diet. not only the bones from the animals he they wer

. >> jimmy: your grandma helen? >> yes. grandma helen.n hell. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: she was in therapy. i met your grandmother a number of times. >> a pain in the ass. crazy. a good one. i have a million helen stories. >> jimmy: she was very open sexually, wasn't she? >> a little too open. one time when i was adding a kitchen on to their house in the '80s, when i rebuilt their kitchen, she came in to help every morning. it was a hot, summer day. we are painting. and she came in and she was wearing a blouse and nothing else. i said, grandma, what are you doing? she said, i'm here to paint. give me a brush. i'll cut in. i said, grandma, you're in your underpants. she said, i'm a grandma, i don't have painters' pants. so, give me the brush. i'm painting. i said okay. but for [ bleep ] sake, stay off the ladder. that was my -- >> jimmy: did she stay off the ladder? >> she honored our agreement. yes. >> jimmy: that's nice. >> i came across the pictures, which i've seen before and knew i had. and they had writing on the back of them. and i jus