horace: once inside, the accomplish rummaged through the house. you may think this would never happen to you or nobody in my family would let someone in our house, no questions asked. think again. with the help of the prince george's county police department, 7 on your side went undercover. in the area had water pressure problems. horace: homeowner after homeowner let our producer in, but there are no decals on his truck,ad, nothing on his and the id around his neck is a press pass. he never said what utility he worked for. across the street is the prince george's county police captain. >> our phony utility worker went door to door, the captain was shocked. this woman even told the producer to go inside while she stood outside of the front porch. >> you thought he was from the water department? >> that's what i thought. >> have you had problems with the water? >> no. horace: it was not until two hours in that we got a no. >> no, you cannot come in. horace: if you don't have an appointment with the utility company to come to your house, don't let t

so -- >> no. >> not a lot of horaces walking around. >> if you're named horace, tweet us. >> i want everyone to tell us your unusual names. could you not find your name on a key chain when you were younger? >> you, for sure. >> you never had a key chain. >> jessica, tracy and bill. >> mine were always sold out. let me show you what's happening this morning. we could sell out of umbrellas today. first round of rain has cleared penn's landing. light rain overnight. still dreary outside. you can see the wind is blowing this morning. that wind will stay with us. damp this morning, heavy downpours this afternoon. actually later this morning and this afternoon. through it all, the wind will be blowing. winds right now forecast to hit 20 miles an hour. expecting higher gusts that could hit 45 miles an hour this afternoon while inland gusts of 25 miles an hour are possible. that will keep things chilly through the day today. make it into the low 50s by 10:00. rain, heavy downpours bring those back down. winds will be bringing in warmer air by being th6:00 this evenin. the first line of show

she got the attention of horace greeley, again, you notice he keeps coming up. horace greeley of the new york tribune who was impressed with her, who hired her to be a literary critic. she's not in the newsroom. she's right, you know, she's writing from home. she's a correspondent, but gr l greeley gives her some opportunities that hadn't been available to well before, and she becomes the first female foreign correspondent. he sends her to europe, and she responds with letters and correspondence about goings on in, and all sorts of countries. sarah hale thought that margaret fuller was not a good role model. and this is what sarah hale had to say about margaret fuller. she thought that she was ignoring the one true book. what is the one true book, do you think? yes, the bible. and that fuller, according to hale, was proof that the greater the intellectual force, the greater and more errors women fall when they wander from the rock foundation, christ the savior. so fuller was influential, right, but she also was to be, she was treated as sort of a freak. she didn

horace page was a republican member of the house of representatives from the state of california. in 1875, he felt the time was right to submit a whole series of pieces of legislation, hoping one of them might be acceptable to his colleagues and eventually passed. and would somehow curtail chinese immigration. he chose this moment in part because of ulysses s. grant, he has been making, to the last few years that were clearly directed toward possibly a ban toward chinese immigrants. he was making comments about the problems typed chinese immigration. also what is lesser known about ulysses s. grant, he was a member of the know nothing party and often held some anti-immigrant views in the past. so he was very hopeful he might be able to get something through. unfortunately for him, only one day. we call it the page law after him, in 1875. it is racially and nationally neutral, it bans the immigration of prostitutes and criminals. the issue was, and for the chinese, that immigration inspectors basically presumed with the passage of this law that every chinese immigrant woman was by

steps horace page, and he created an alternative law imaging chinese immigrants for a 20,ear period as opposed to in creating a category for exemptions. those exemptions would include ,eachers, missionaries , students, some family members, so your children, and pretty much that is it. everybody was willing to sign 1982, we havein the first piece of legislation that targets a particular population based on nation of origin. the chinese exclusion act. 1892, it wasr, in revisited. it was not only reaffirmed but it was expanded to include certificates of identity, certificates of identity. these are documents that chinese immigrants were required to have on their person at all times and any official could ask them to produce. they could be arrested and possibly deported. ok? as you might imagine, it was a bit controversial. 10 years after that, the passage of the scott act which renewed the chinese exclusion act and expanded it geographically. we had the spanish-american war and the philippines and hawaii , which had large chinese populations, they cannot accept chinese. in 19 o04, as a re

horace holmes? horace: this is a fitbit 2. this happened to mitchell's device. is from wisconsin and was given it for a present and opened it about two weeks. she claims she was st it exploded and caught fire. she said the device was defective or mad she had been sitting for a long time. treated for the second-degree burns. "7 on your side" contacted the consumer product safety commission who is investigating this. they did order the recall of the fitbit 4 in 2014 because of the skin irritation becaused by stainless steel casing but they have had no previous report of fires with any of the products. a mystery. larry: be careful. you are wearing yours. clean-up after storms left the massive damage behind. weekend caused a t topple in a woman's yard as she made it out in time. a road gave way in the storms and dozens of homes and buildings were damaged. michelle: in north carolina a man had to be rescued from the pickup truck stuck in floodwaters. another man with him was able to swim to safety to get help. parts of wilks county were hit with the six inches of rai

while it is widely known that horace peterson of kansas city was the visionary and founder of the black archives of america, it is little known who saved the institution from disappearing later on. one nday morning during a heavy rainstorm, ruby arnold appeed at the front desk of the 29th floor of city hall. mr. claver: the guard asked if shhad an appointment with anyone. she said, i don't have have an appointment, but i've come to see the may juror. again she came by and waited two hos for an appointment she didn't have. then at a public event thnext we she asked again, mayor have you found a place for the black archives. ruby arnold died before the opening of the new archives in 2010, but former mayor emanuel cleaver, now a u.s. house of representatives, said this was not due to wishing or hope bug from the determined effort of ruby arnold. god bless her spirit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman s recognized for one minute. mr. lance: i rise today to celebrate the public service of carol ann

horace greeley in new york warned this would threaten the republican victory. it was voter suppression, and republicans won't win if this bill is passed. so he did what everybody did. as i said earlier, he held a public meeting so that everybody could come out and yell and shout and denounce. and he invited this famous republican in his new home town, abraham lincoln, to attend. abraham lincoln did not attend. he was still being very careful about those know nothings, or former know nothings, with nowhere to go. and this was 1859. he wasn't yet ready to appear at a public meeting. this is an important thing, maybe a disappoints thing. lincoln finally wrote a letter to be published in the german press. lincoln figured it would be read only by germans. i'm just calculating that. he wrote, understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of man, i am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them. i have some little notoriety for supervising with the strife of the negro. this is a milestone. this is the speed letter all over again. but perhaps a lit

honorable horace davenport passed away at 98.as grandson of the slave and known for his calm temperament memorial services planned for may. >>> daily times report on delaware county plans to mark 100 year anniversary of world war one, several events will take place saturday at 9:00 a.m. at delaware county courthouse. >> that is a look at newspaper headlines from around the delaware valley. >>> we told but a new jersey girl accepted at eight ivy league schools. >> but she's not the only one, sarah cameron of, oklahoma, also has been accepted by everyone of the ivies. quite an acceptance stack there she says it was all part of her plan from the beginning >> back in middle school i started researching ivy league i went to star bucks, and opened up my lap top and went through and checked them off. >> what an under achiever. >> as if that is not enough sarah in her high school state championship, member of the chinese club, national honor society and student government sound like a form lah to be accepted. if only we knew these things

horace holmes? horst pretty trusting. this is the neighborhood where we conduct the test.e went door to door knocking to see who would let us in. if someone knocks on your door, what do you do? let them in no questions ask? we went undercolor to find out what the local homeowners would do. you would be surprised how easy it is to get inside with no questions asked. >> thought from the water department? >> have you had problem from the waters? >> i have >> tens of thousands of people voted in the facebook pole on the i.r.s. this is your chance to join in now. log in to the facebook page and answer would you let this man into your home? everyone though he looks official. log in to wjla.com. facebook page. tonight the story is abc7 news at 11:00. >> we will see you then. great information for everybody. for months we have been telling you about the effort to name the eagles. there are options up now at wjla.com. make your pick and tune in monday to find out the name. larry: fun this morning to hear the names. alison: we all feel ownership. larry: exactly! >> a great time to b

her was to reinforce the sentiment of horace greeley's tribune article that appeared on august 20, entitled "the prayer of 20 urged thewhich are president to liberate slaves. yet many northerners had seen few signs of new war aims. the governorsto to take action to end slavery. sovereignvernors of states have a right in we beseech you to enforce it, to demand of the president when he calls for men to tell you what he wants with them. we feel it is your duty to demand of him to tell and -- in plains which words which he intends shall live, slavery or freedom?' -- slavery or freedom?" to be sure, governors were conscious of the powers. the northern populace had come to lean on them. during the political talk of and union leadership found justified away for the union to preserve the union while accepting emancipation as a necessary part of the war. consequently, the union ultimately prevailed because loyal governors stood by lincoln's war aims and encouraged him to take measures necessary to win. , the united states that southerners had succumbed to have fundamentally changed from the one of y

horace is a nice comfort. why do you worry, the internet question with your finite mindss >> obvious questions i have for you, knowing your love of poetry. you are not a poet. i do incorporate poetry into writing? how does that influence youraltm writing?sa >> i'm not sure it has come although some people would say that my writing is lyrical. but i think it's just the love of the word and a sense of the rhythm, but also promote poetry strides forward, which is a sort of capturing and that is such a wonderful calling. >> host: les standiford committee of britain of fiction and nonfiction books. but you're not a poet either. why do you treat poetry or bring poetry into a writing class? >> when i was in graduate school myself, the program at utah even more than 30 years ago, we were forced, even if they thought of ourselves as fiction writers, to take a class in the writing of poetry. i remember walking across the campus that january morning, could take a class with henry taylor who went on to win the national bo

. >> i like horace. >> and maurine. >> to this now. spring in full bloom. a beautiful day.e for a great day to get out there. maybe do some gardening. got the hat on. keep the sun off your face. meteorologist tammie souza is tracking big changes coming our way tomorrow. won't be any sun to see tomorrow. >> you won't be wearing your garden b bonnet. it's not going to happen. let's take a look. the beam is sweeping the sky from the radar. there's nothing out there to report. it's very quiet. that's going to change. the clouds listen increasing and we have a giant storm system. it's now making its way out of the midwest. it is still going to fight across our area. it has kicked off this line of strong storms. they actually have several tornadoes reported in the southeast. they are going to have a long night there. as all of this energy approaches us and this rain and thunderstorm activity, we are going to be facing the potential for maybe some flooding es herbally north and west of this metro area tomorrow and severe weather in the form of damaging winds and that is generally

wasn't a rising march of voices of students from private schools yelling for relief whether it's horacen or st. george's school around the country, they would have done nothing agent all. >> sreenivasan: all right, gentlemen, see you on tv tonight. thanks very much. >> thanks a lot, hari. you. >> woodruff: stay with us. coming up on the newshour: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news; basketball great oscar robertson on the man who broke his triple double record that has stood since 1962; and, making the case for expertise. but first, today is good friday, when christians around the world commemorate the crucifixion of jesus christ, ahead of easter sunday. one of the largest public displays occurs each year in seville, spain, but declining is threatening a long-time faith among the spanish people is threatening a long-time pillar of the catholic church-- its cloistered convents. jeffrey brown has that story, part of our continuing series, "culture at risk." >> reporter: everywhere you turn in seville, tradition and history-- reminders of a rich religious past. but rarely

. >> for boys, horace, roy, geoffrey, dennis, and wayne on the verge of extinction. >> save horace.a name that's back like 20 years ago, you wouldn't hear. >> daisy, they become trendy again. >> i feel loic cike calvin is a old-fashioned name. luckily, not on that list. >> he's got it. it will be good. >> it will be cool to pull off of that list. just wait. >>> should we talk about the easter bunnies? okay. hold up your bunnies. >> why did you pass me a big knife? >> in case of an attack. >> we're going to do an experiment. take a bite of your easter bunny, okay? >> mind if i cut my easter bunny? we want to see where people eat their bunnies. >> i like hollow bunnies. i'm off to a good start here. okay. everybody here ate the ears first. >> right. >> well, are you still chewing, too? okay. the headline this morning said you're abnormal if you eat chocolate bunnies feet-first. 59% of the people bite the ears first. >> is this april 1st. >> 30%, a free-for-all. >> a free-for-all. like a feeding frenzy. >> about 1,000 shots our director can't take right now. this is a potential nightma

h horace is a comfort. why do you worry the infinite question with your finite mind? things that were very comforting to me. >> the obvious question i have for you knowing your love of poetry but you are not poet. >> i know how hard it is. >> how do you incorporate the poetry into your writing? how does it influence your writing? >> i am not sure it has although some people say my writing is lyrical. but, i think, it is just the love of the word and the sentence and a sense of the rhythm. but also what poetry strives for is a capturing of the essence in a very few words. i think that is such a wonderful calling were the writer. >> host: les standiford, you have written both non-fiction and fiction books. you are not a poet either. why do you teach poetry and bring it into a writing class? >> the fact is when i was in graduate my school myself we were forced even if we thought of ourselves as fiction writers to take a class in poetry. and i remember talking to take the class with henry taylor who went on to win n award and i thought this is it. after this class i am ou