she goes home to kentucky and marries benjamin harden-helm. the lincolns also grew close to helm. harden and lincoln were from the same region, around knob creek, kentucky. they knew the same families. both were political moderates, helm even on slavery. so when lincoln is elected, mary really hopes that emily will come to be an ornament in her court. abraham lincoln offers harden a job with a paymaster corps as a major. you kind of have to know your rankings and what this would mean in an era where everybody wants a job. this is the highest ranking, highest paying job, abraham lincoln can give without the permission of congress. so he's really offering harden an alternative vision of his life. he even says, we can post you to the west. we can post you to mexico rather than raise arms against us. harden has a difficult decision. he consulted with many people. perhaps including robert e. lee. i had a bitter struggle with myself, harden admitted to a friend. the most painful moment of my life was when i declined the generous offer of my brother-in-law. instead, of course, harden hel

in this he is writing to helm and saying that todd had been killed and he shows in a map where todd is buried. so the family can claim him if they wish to afterward. did they? >> they did try to find him, and the record is unclear. there are men who sort of fleeced and made a business of trying to say that they knew where confederate dead were, and emily wasn't sure the degree to which she was being played. i'm not completely sure exactly where his body was. this letter would help. so they looked for him. whether they ever found him, i'm not sure. helm, they did reclaim from the atlanta graveyard and moved him to kentucky. >> was david todd ever brought to justice because of the prison problem? >> no. no. as you all know, senate opens an investigation, i mean, once andersonville becomes public information almost immediately, one of the first investigations is treatment of union prisoners in confederate hands and there you will find david todd's name often. and what's most interesting about him is, this is very early in the war, where you cannot make claims, as spirited as they might be

jesse helms. and what was the one big government program that jesse helm s would always promote and always support? tobacco subsidies. probably the most pernicious, the worst government program you could possibly imagine, but of kourks the tobacco farmers are in north carolina so he is for -- that's one of the reasons you can't cut agricultural subsidies. you have all these senators, many of them conservative from all these states, the last thing they want to see cut is agricultural subsidies. you have not only new responsibilities on the part of the government for general economy, you have new responsibilities on the part of the government for individual and family well-being and welfare. how else does the new deal change politics, policy and the presidency? you've got two big areas. what are some of the other things that the new deal instituted in the way of changes? >> like what social groups made up the support centers for the political parties. >> very important. you have an utter transformat

congress and then president clinton passed and signed into line the helms/burton bill which has never been fully implemented, as you well know, because of a provision which allows a waiver for a suspension every six months to that law for implementation of that law. and that suspension i believe takes place around every january or february and at midyear as well. so we probably have just recently seen the obama administration suspend the law as it has been done twice a year every year since 1996. now the rational allowed in the law for suspending implementation of the law is twofold. number one, that it serves u.s. interests. and number two, that it would expedite a transition to democracy in cuba. given what we've seen in the last few years during the obama administration and what has been occurring in cuba in terms of the wave of repression against human rights activists and dissidents, given the deaths of several hunger strikers, given the recent persecution against the ladies in white peaceful activists in cuba that have been calling for democratic reform. given the stern rebuff t

it came from a group of students who took turns at the helm of this pully system. just inside, the high schoolers are owe monitoring the power again rated by wind and reporting their findings back to luminolt. and they'll study impact on wildlife. >> keeping track of monitoring is if they do get injured. >> instead of it movering this way, it move that's way so that means that birds won't get sucked into it and die. >> this is the reason the national park service put these turbines here. >> to be true is sustainibility and use that to educate the public. >> that is. >> and let's face it, we can all use ed oox new laser technology for erasing acne scar autos a new option for darker >>> lasers have become a popular tool for correcting a host of skin issues but in rare cases they can cause a darkening of a skichbl now a gentler version is providing an alternative. when an jellica looks in the mirror she sees scars of adult acne. >> i experienced it in three years. and i started getting pretty intense. >> she's turning to a technology to make pitting less noticeable. t

alongside me in making sure the mayor's office, working with the board of supervisors, has at its helm, with the proper authority, a corporate visibility, leadership in making sure innovation is a part of everything we do, both in leading the departments and our efforts to innovate ourselves out of the many challenges forthcoming. i think we need an innovation that the mayor's office, so we have asked him to come forward to do this. i needed to be very visible to everybody. i need it also to signal that this is our dedication -- that we have talked about for a few months. innovation will be a key component, key way in which we conduct ourselves in the city. by the way, it is not just innovation for innovation's sake. at the heart of this is job creation. i have said this over and over again to the point where people may be bored with it. at the heart of my 17-point plan of job creation and economic growth is technology growth. that has been the exciting part of my few months as interim mayor, and the last few months, to see that technology growth that is at the heart to bringing down t

ed helm is here and he's just now reading the book for the first time.aking of star power can we bring in megan hilty, one of the stars of "smash," nice to see you. >> you, too. >> i'm confused. help me out. >> uh-oh. >> we now know your character, ivy, got the role of marilyn monroe. where does that leave us in terms of drama? >> i'm marliilyn for now. as someone who's gone through the process of doing musicals from the ground up. just because you start it doesn't mean you can keep your job. >> they can snatch it away from you? >> it adds to the drama. >> how sit playing ivy the actress and also marilyn monroe? >> it's great. makes it less daunting. it's not me playing marilyn. it's ivy lynn. so i can hide a little bit. but i'm doing research. marilyn is fascinating. i like to read about her and watch her on youtube and get her voice in my head. >> second you said as someone who's gone through it before you were on "wicked," "9 to 5" on br broadway. how close to reality is this? >> it's close. there are so many people involved in the project that come f

in massachusetts after he stopped working for jesse helms.o there's something -- there's a real sort of pathological disconnect. and they've really got to be called on it and they've got to be called on it by democrats as well as people like us. >> i think that ken mehlman though has sort of -- i think ken mehlman has done the right thing to the extent that you can't do back in time. you can indict what he did in the past, but then once you come out, if you were complicit in politics that were not only hypocritical but you decided were very bad for the country the right thing to do is work to change those politics. he's certainly doing that in his public life. >> he's doing things like the proposition 8 fight but what is going on with the republican party? how is it every candidate, every single candidate with the arguable exception of jon huntsman who's long gone, has taken such anti-gay views in terms of policy and rhetoric? how have they remained silent? when you have a gay soldier who's serving in iraq ask a perfectly innocuous, pleasant

i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. i helped to build the lgbt community center. i started doing campaigns. i gradually got involved in democratic party politics. i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? >> i learned a lot. i knocked on about $15,000. -- i knocked about 15,000 doors. i met a huge number of people. that is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and what their concerns are. i feel i can do so much more than before and started campaigning. -- i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. we're all part

our strategy here in san francisco now with anne at the helm at d.e.m. and her predecessors and mayor lee and his predecessors and joanne and myself and our pred cesars as we prepare for every disaster that happens around the world as if it happened here. so if you think of what's happened over the last 22 years beginning with loma prieta and arm geten and y2k, we'ved that world series three times. one we liked. we prepared for floods with katrina and all the problems that come with water and on and on and on. we even prepared for tsunamis in a city of hills. so we really want to be as prepared as we can be. we are committed and dedicated to being as prepared as any city in the country. and i think someone once defined preparedness as the amount of time it takes to get the necessary personnel and resources in place to recover from any calamity. and here in san francisco we are absolutely committed to having that period of time as short as possible. his time before becoming mayor, mayor lee was actually the chair of the recovery body to engage public-private partnerships, get infrastru

at the helm is billy crystal already tweeting away. tonight, i might tweet winner of best supporting actor. who can stop me? >> chris connelly there. we have some inside scoop. cynee is on her way -- cynne is underway to los angeles along with arch campbell. they will join us at 5:00. it turned -- to non- with that. -- to an end for that. we're going to host a live chat on our facebook page during the oscars on sunday night. a whole lot of excitement coming up. still ahead, adam is back with a final look at the weather. >> you might call this the ultimate in luxury. look at this yacht off the coast of l.a. this is reportedly the ninth largest yacht in the entire world. it is worth $300 million. the owner is said to be a russian vodka tycoon. >> i could fish out of every corner off of that. >> i am sure you could pick see if you are one of our facebook fans we have a good deal for you. -- i am sure you could. >> if you are one of our facebook fans, we have a good deal for you. if you are the one that takes over the top, you will get a $

finally after helms left office, president bush signed the authorization for this museum in 2003. $100illion in private funds have already been raised. the 374,000 square foot building will house about 20,000 artifacts and is expected -- get this -- to draw 3 million to 3.5 million visitors annually n. museum is expected -- annually. this mao seem why is expected to be -- museum is expected to be the largest of its kind anywhere in the united states. i'll have more on the growing concerns coming up in my next live report in a half-hour. >> thank you. >>> we have a look at some bargains coming up. daily deals time very soon. >>> three actors at a local museum show and tell the stories of black men and women during the civil war. we'll be back. >>> it is 5:38 out on the weather terrace this morning. jackets needed. we're if the 40s with a light breeze out here. some spots out to the west and southwest down in the 30s. your day planner, get ready for a spring like day. we'll have those breezes out of the south and southwest at times up to 20 miles an hour. mid-50s by noon. near 60 at 3:00

, one of the homophobic senators, he was in a gay marriage after he stopped working for jesse helms.cal disconnect. they have to be called on it. >>> i think ken melman has done the right thing to the extent you can't go back in time. you can indict what he did in the past once you come out if you were complicit you have to work to change the politics, he's doing that. >> in things like the proposition 8 fight but what is going on within the republican party? >> that is the question. >> how is it every candidate. every candidate with the arguable example of jon huntsman, long gone, has taken such anti-gay views in terms of policy and rhetoric, have they remained sigh len a gay soldier serving in eye iraq, asked a perfectly pleasant question through youtube in a republican debate and no one including the then nine candidates on stage speaks up against it? it's great that ken melman is involved with raising money for afer and to fight proposition # appeared so on but what about within the party? i am i don't mean to sickle him out, paul singer, the hedge fund guys, the big bucks people

then helm past neimi. the wings win again. sharks 1-4 on the road trip. the sap finals, milos had the serve cooking early. the a's smoking 150-miles-an-hour. only had seven aces but made them count. then taking the match in straight sets. wins the sap open for the second straight year. >> find round of the northern trust open at riviera country club. bill haas roars from the back of the pack. mickelson needs this to force a playoff. got it. bradley, playing with phil. how about a three-way playoff. are you kidding me? we go to sudden death. and the second playoff hole, bill haas from 45 feet for birdie. he wins it. in sudden death. what a day. >> thank you very much, shu. >> a race to see who tops the holiday weekend box office, and it's a close >> you were in a car accident. >> my head hurts, doctor. >> a battle between love and action at the box office this weekend. as the row -- romance, the vow, and ryan reb nadals and den sez washington's safe house has a slim lead. ghost writers, in third. journey 2 is number four, and this means war, wraps up the t

helm rips one by neimi. the wings win it. >> final round, the at riviera.l mickelson needs this birdie point on 18 to force a playoff. got it. money from the 41-year-old. tegan bradley playing with fill. and he nails it. sudden death. bill hawes for birdie. are you indicating in the in bill hawes, nowown trust winner in sudden death. >> at 6:00, stanford baseball, and cub scout pack 287 out of pleasant hill is in the house. give yourselves a hand, guys. there you good. [applause] >> mike: there you go. >> coming up at 6:00, deadly avalanche in washington state. we tell you what happened. the fight over jobs in spain as unemployment skyrockets. joins at 6:00. >> and oscar sunday here on abc-7 is one week away. >> you can predict the winners and get the latest buzz on oscar.com. >> you can also download the app for iphones and ipads, get live video from the red carpet and back stage. >> and get in on the

since taking the helm in january, after someone that i have a great deal of respect for, tremendous work for their office, who has struggled for many years, without any technology, and with a tremendous amount of internal problems, i wanted to make sure that i would continue to do the work that kamala harris did, continue to move this office to the next level. one of my first commitment was to reduce the backlog in homicides. we have done so by 36%, resolving cases that have been languishing for years because of a lack of resources, and finally giving family some closure. i am proud to say that i continued the work that kamala harris did, her homicide team. conviction rate is now at 91%. equally impressive is our results in sex crimes where we have an 89% conviction rate, and our gang unit, where we have a 100% conviction rate. this is important, because often, especially during the campaign, a lot of people use disparaging marks for the performance of the san francisco district attorney's office. in addition to this effort, we are tackling white-collar crime. we have created a corporate

. >> familiar face back at the helm.ear reports. >> reporter: who could forget billy crystal at hannibal lecter. or any of the other seven times he's hosted the oskars. well get ready, because he's back. >> they were charged with tracking down a legend. >> reporter: his seven-year hiatus from hosting was spoofed by the academy. >> we come to you on behalf on an old friend. ♪ >> you could have just texted. >> reporter: crystal came to the rescue after real-life drama rocked the awards. unfortunate comments by the original show director, brett ratner, forced him to design. his hand-picked host, eddie murphy rezined as well. >> i think he'll deliver on every front. >> reporter: after last year's pairing of james franco and anne hathaway was widelied, it's no surprise that the academy is serving up something familiar. >> he's been working on the movie skits that are going to open the show. i hear they're outrageous. >> reporter: as for crystal, he may be a little poermd he's more than ready for one more round as master of ce

third period, on a rush, darren helm finds the back of the night. san jose loses 3-2. a year ago, milos ronnish won his first app title. the 21-year-old is back in the final at hp pavilion. ravich unloads, you see it's 145 miles per hour, but he can bring it up to 155. takes a step, 7-6. second set, a lot less time here. match point. unforced error. ronich wins the second year in a row. they award the canadian with maple syrup. phil mickelson needing a birdie at 18, this to force the playoffs in la. yeah, but up next, bradley can join him for a three-way playoff. >> can he do it? yes, yes, yes oh, how good is that? >> joining bill haus in the playoff. in the second hole of sudden death, it's haus's turn. and haus saves the best for last, a 45-footer to win the northern trust open. >>> baseball, giants pitchers and catchers took the field for the first time today in scottsdale, but not ryan vogelsong. he injured himself lifting weights at home a week ago. he could be out a week. but buster posy took the field after an infamous home plate collision that broke his leg and

steve jobs wasn't always at the helm either. he was ousted in 1985 and didn't return to the company he founded until 1997. fast forward to 2007. apple hits $100 billion in market cap. multifullying four fold in five years to $400 billion and just last month apple's grown $100 billion to more than $500 billion right now in trading at yet another all-time high. shares up $542.99. sue. >> courtney, well, apple's up, but the stock market's been slipping a little bit after the fed chief, mr. bernanke, hinted there would be no more monetary easing perhaps. nonetheless the nasdaq did stop the 3,000 mark earlier. first time that's happened in a decade and comes day after dow climbing above 13,000. and joining us, guys, nice to have you here. dan, i'm going to start with you if i could. as simon hobbs, i don't know if you were able to hear his report earlier, pointed out that there was a lot of selling just around the 10:00, 11:00 hour and the question is whether or not people are really moving away from the risk trade. whether they've s

. >> he will take the helm of the electronics maker april 1st when the current president howard stringer steps down. he vows to turn around their loss making television business by cutting costs through more outsourcing. the tv operations are set to make a loss for the eight this straight year, offered to raise profitability boosting digital cameras and game consoles. let's look at the latest market figures. >> that's the latest in business this hour. >>> europeans are bracing for more snow and freezing conditions. the eastern region gripped by a strong cold snap since last week, leaving at least 120 people dead. in ukraine and poland, the cold wave was responsible for 30 deaths thursday. the two nations have seen more than 90 people die from temperatures of minus 30 degrees celsius. record snowfall and low temperatures have been observed in italy and greece. usually have relatively mild winters. in southwestern serbia, massive snowfall blocked a mountain road and left 11,000 stranded. the severe cold snap is forecast to continue this week, and weather officials in europe urge caution. p

. >> reporter: they have mentors at the canal alliance, san rafael high and helms middle school in richmond and provides support for teachers. students take pride in writing and publishing their own books. they write and perform history lessons on stage and journal "science" experiments. through forwords, gail has empowered more than 700 kids. some have graduated from high school and college. 17-year-old pablo plans to be one of them. >> you're giving a lot of people hope. >> i hope so. it's just so satisfying and very exciting for us. >> reporter: so for teaching life-changing skills to hundreds of north bay students, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to gail siegel. sharon chin, cbs 5. >>> and if you would like to volunteer or contribute to forwords, you can use the link we posted on cbssf.com. click on the "connect" button and then go to jefferson awards check it out. >>> stay with us. we'll be right back. force one is scheduled to touch down about 25 minutes from now. >>> let's go live to sfo. empty tarmac because we're expecting air force one to touch down in a half hour

it is so reassuring that you are at the helm over there. i love klw. i just love it. thank you very much. >> we have a lot of great people very actively involved. commissioner maufas: hide them in your pocket. >> they do not like to come down here at this hour. commissioner maufas: it is you and your team. >> thank you. >> i was got -- i was going to say, you've got to change your schedule so that you can come in the fall and not during these meetings which gets so long. i am really so grateful for the management you has given and for the sound financial footing in and that we helped out in your time of need. i am glad to see that you have grown because of that. thank you for your continued greatness. >> i want to say one more thing. i want to thank joe. i remember hearing from him early on. just to be mindful and not take any particular action, but to keep you on our radar. by the time you came to us, you were already on my mind. i want to thank joe for making it understood that you need to be a priority for us. i think we are better off for it. thank you. >> thanks

work that you are doing and i look forward to your testimony and i congratulate you for being at the helm of one of the better agencies in the government and for the work that your agency does. thank you. i yield back my time. >> you'll notice that our clock is not working up on the wall. they are in the process of fixing that. but in the meantime we have this one that is working, and at this time, i recognize the chairman of the environment and economy sub committee, three minutes for an opening statement. >> i would note for my colleagues that the yellow lights go on when you are close to time. the numbers are not working but the lights are working. i would like to welcome the administrator and mr. rush. good thing we have drilling and fracking that will have us move to the future, without that we could not access the natural gas. i am hoping that epa will not regulate and try to stop the natural gas. your request is for 8.3 billion to fund the epa, i have been quoted that i want to go line by line, but unfortunately the documents that we have been given does not give us an idea of wher

i like that this helms take a little bit -- helps take out that unfortunate element of surprise. you don't know anything about it until you get hit with a lawsuit, which from what i have heard is incredibly traumatic. so i think yes, it is an ongoing obligation, and hopefully they should be able to work this out in terms of come applying to the federal standards. i feel there is only directing back to the federal standards, and they can apply to have more time to get it done or whatever the federal law allows. and so i just see it is a very positive thing to let people out there on both sides, tenants and landlords, actually know, get a piece of paper that tells them that this is the law. and if that is done at the time of a lease, there is no time like the present to get that message out there. so i actually think it is good legislation. >> commissioner reilly. >> i support the intent of the legislation. i think it is time we do something because there are so many lawsuits that the small business owner has to pay for. but i think that the detail needs to be looked at, like the t

the captain of a ship cannot abandon the helm in troubled waters. he said there was plenty of work to do. already at the start of the week, the president was effectively in campaign mode. visiting an electronics factory, he looked confident. he even broke into english. >> i am very impressed. where do you come from? >> for all of his bravado, nicolas sarkozy knows that he faces a monumental task. the socialist is simply so far ahead in the polls. once written off as a genial not entity, he has gotten off to an impressive start. a successful campaign launched fixed him as a man that the french imagine one day as the president. the financial markets might not like his program, that is not an argument that will deter many voters. in the multi candidate first round of elections, there will be other players, notably the national front leader riding high on economic gloom and the euro skepticism. if he is to have any hope, nicolas sarkozy needs to take a big bite out of her electorate which well might mean that we see his campaign and the way veering towa

the captain of a ship cannot abandon the helm in troubled waters. he said there was plenty of work to do. already at the start of the week, the president was effectively in campaign mode. visiting an electronics factory, he looked confident. he even broke into english. >> i am very impressed. where do you come from? >> for all of his bravado, nicolas sarkozy knows that he faces a monumental task. the socialist is simply so far ahead in the polls. once written off as a genial not entity, he has gotten off to an impressive start. a successful campaign launched fixed him as a man that the french imagine one day as the president. the financial markets might not like his program, that is not an argument that will deter many voters. in the multi candidate first round of elections, there will be other players, notably the national front leader riding high on economic gloom and the euro skepticism. if he is to have any hope, nicolas sarkozy needs to take a big bite out of her electorate which well might mean that we see his campaign and the way veering towa

." >>> and "the office" actor ed helms talks about his new role in the upcoming dr. seuss classic "the lorax." >>> and now, keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today your nbc station. have a good one.

barkley at the helm, trying to make this work for oracle and america's cup, we are going to have a 30 year legacy and a much better financial throughput. educating these children and these communities across the city, i think the delay is going to be hurtful to these children and to business in the city. >> thank you. chairperson chu: i do not have other cards other than in manuel flores. if there are members of the public who have not spoken, please line up in the center aisle. paul alito. san francisco president, business owner, a journalist. thank you for the diligence you take in looking at all aspects of this agreement, making sure the agreement has the maximum benefits to the city. in my opinion, time has nearly run out to run the america's cup well in san francisco. in my opinion, if you delay, you will do several things. if you delay, you will diminish the value of this event for the city by diminishing the size of it. if you delay, you will dramatically in habit fund- raising, since fund-raising cannot take place unless it is clear the event is going to move forward in san fr

the knicks on a seven-game winning streak with him at the helm. >> do you think there is pressure is this. >> he nailed that one against toronto the other night and waited and in it went. carmelo anthony is coming back to the team. we'll see how that works out. >>> by now you have heard "linsanity," linning, lin-time. >> david letterman poked fun at it: the one thing... that can be a >> see if that catches on. >> lintastic! >> funny. >>> 4:56. pregnancy and exercise. it one thing that could be a woman's best friend. >>> from garbage to gunk to toxic chemicals, how one bay area neighborhood is turning into an illegal dumping ground when we come back. >>> the bay area's rolling out the red carpet for president obama. but his visit, of course, is not without controversy. we'll tell you about it coming up. >>> and in case you hadn't heard, the westbound lanes of the bay bridge will be closed starting tomorrow night and through the weekend but coming up, we'll fill you in on details on how to get across the bay using bart's 24-hour service. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdo