jim mcpherson, and many others, and we kicked around so many subjects the highlight of the meeting for me -- this is really -- i don't want to -- it was an extraordinary experience. the highlight came when both tony and steven spielberg were asked by us -- we didn't ask any questions until the very end. we actually thought there might be a third meal but we were ultimately disappointed. we said, how would you film the get get gettysburg address that would be different than, same, gregory peck, or sam watererston's speech in the miniseries. they went on this flight of imagination that a camera back at the end of the crowd, leave falls falling from the trees. wind obscuring words, and not paying attention, and only at the last minute would there be a huge closeup of lincoln's face and you hear the final word, and i thought this made it all worth while. rather than listening to each other, because we just heard the difference between a screen writer and a director, and your chronicling of facts. the next thing that happened is that disney and dreamworks asked me this summer to do -- early

police believe 21-year-old jim mcpherson shot and killed the 18-year-old jenee mcfarland this weekend-year-old sister sat just feet from the president as he spoke about violence. he's behind bars on a $3 million bond. >> time to check in with jacqui jeras on the weather today. >> the first thing we notice is its freezing outside. >> it was a slap in the face. >> refreshen. >> there you go. >> that makes us feel better about it. adam caskey is doing jumping jacks. bungalow. are-- bundle up outside. it feels like 18 degrees with wind out of the west northwest. the temperatures are in the '20s. you can see the wind chill factor down into single digits in a few spots. gator expert feels like 8 degrees, feels like 11 in hagerstown, 14 in martinsburg. yesterday we made it up to 41 but it felt like 20's all day. the average high is 48 degrees. -- it feels like 8 degrees in gaithersburg. sleet possible tomorrow. skies will be clearing through this morning and you'll see plenty of sunshine this afternoon. a weather maker across the plains states will be a nasty storm, a bad place to travel tod

and we also talked to harold and jim mcpherson, i wanted to make sure that we had a solid sense of history underneath us as we were going forward especially once steven said that the whole movie was just going to be the fight for the amendment which seemed like an incredible, sort of gamble because you wouldn't think that you are going to make a movie about one of the few things in the lincoln years in the white house that nobody even knows about. and i wanted to make sure that we weren't just making a lot out of a very minor moment. and doris helped me feel confident that we were on to something. she was very excited about the idea. and you know, she just immensely againerous and has this inkrepd-- ingetable sense of enthusiasm. if you say one thing that she likes, that's great, that's great, i love that that's great! >> rose: she was on this program recently. >> yeah, last night. and-- and it's genuine. she's really a tremendously passionate person. and so that infused the script. >> rose: two things. one this is why steven spielberg is steven spielberg, isn't it. >> you mean the decisio