postmarked to john hancock. so, in the introductory saw the first postage stamp, these are the united states first postage stamps. what we have on the left of actual drawings that the printing company submitted to the post office for approval. on the right, what we have is known use of any of these dams on a piece of mail. on july ps were issued 1. in the 19th century, american went to hawaii, write urse they wanted to back home, bbut there was no established postage system. in 1850's, hawaii printed its first postage stamps. they are incredibly frail, very few have survived. for stamp collectors, they are one of the treasures that hopes to own. here in this case, we have all four varieties of the hawaii missionary stamps, plus an them on has three of it. the envelope was pulled out of the furnace. survival, it s helps understand how the stamps were put on the plate for printing. >> here we have a block of four of the most requested item in the collection. this is the most famous united ever s postage stamp issu

john hancock the director said, you've got the role. he said work with bobby to see if you can help him along to look somewhat like a professional. impossible task. >> charlie: and what was the role you played in godfather ii? tony ristato. there's one question raised by everyone on the internet. was the line danny aiello said in godfather two improvised? the line they're talking about, michael corleone says, now, frank pentangeli was sitting at a bar. i walked behind him. i put a garrot around his neck. i say, michael corleone, drag him into a phone book and fail to kill him. we were rehearsing. francis was there. >> charlie: the director. yes. i was so intimidated by the man knowing the things he had done and here i am a neo-fite actor. there was no fine there. when i was coming from behind with the garrot to choke him, there was no line whatsoever. he said, let's rehearse, action. i come behind him. and i said, michael corleone says hello. i had no idea why i said it. he said, what did you say? i thought i was in trouble. i said, wel

looking south from the john hancock building across the looped around town.smerizing shot. he was downed visiting his daughter in st. petersburg. from the chicago area. look at that. these are mid-level crowd clouds. >> you must feel like you can walk into the water here. this is miami beach on black friday. in a beautiful country sunset with a wind mill there. some gorgeous sunsets around here recently. kind of nice that we're not talking about the onset of a snowstorm or anything like that. the weather pattern is quite quiet. a great deal of sunshine pouring down across the area. that has boosted temptress from the chilly here that we were in yesterday. we'll tell you about the temperature. it is really quite remarkable here is the satellite view. >> pretty cloudy morning in that part of the area. the arctic chill is continuing to ease. will do so the rest of the week. yesterday for december 1st the high of 24 much of the afternoon as in the upper teens. 16 degrees above normal. interesting it was the coldest open to a december since 1896. we are surprised

have the only piece of mail known to have survived, postmarked july 4, 1776 and it's addressed to john hancock. out in the introduction gallery we saw the world's first stamp issued. these are the united states first stamps issued. we have the original drawings of the printing company that produced the stamps submitted to the post office department for their approval. and then on the right what we have is the earliest known use of any of these stamps on an actual piece of mail. the stamps were issued july 1, 1847. no letters with stamps survived from that day, but july 2nd, the next day, this very heavy letter to the clerk of the county court in indiana is the earliest known piece of mail from the united states to have government issued postage stamps on it. >> in the 19th century missionaries went to the kingdom of hawaii and they wanted to write home but there was no postal system or establishment, instead of you gave you're letter to a ship captain. in 1850s hawaii printed their first postage stamps. they're incredibly fail. very few have survived. and for stamp collectors, they're one of t

the rest of you looking west from the john hancock building. >> and a mix of clouds around here. rebekah are together.we are back together. putting up quite a reading today. canadian high pressure that is hightailing it across the area that will send a barometer reading. these are going to it's time to go back into our area later today. they might bring some snow flurries later today or tonight. >> as arctic air stages a brief comeback. temperatures have been falling. 24 at midnight. ratings are down to 19 and going down right now. it is 51, at least it was saturday at o'hare. 50 sunday morning. quite an increase over the normal. the second weekend in a row. >> close the books at midnight last may. average 2.5 degrees. a little more them at below normal. 17 percent more heating used during this fall because of the coldness in the air. we were almost seven degrees below normal making it the coldest of them from the books.november, the books. the >> pattern evolving shows are to care pulling back. just for with the southern boundary this week. there'll be an increase in the cooler

obama's been waiting for congress to make the first move so he can whip out his john hancock and signfar, they've done nothing, so he's just been sitting around the white house with his bic in his hand. ♪ sitting around with a bic in his hand ♪ ♪ sitting around with his bic in his hand ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ republicans are mad immigrants aren't leaving just like your in-laws on thanksgiving ♪ [ laughter and applause ] >> congressional republicans are still weighing their response, considering everything from a possible government shut down to even suing the president. >> jimmy: you ain't lying, big brilly style, but the president's been firm in his position. if you want me to stop taking executive action, you've got to pass a bill. ♪ my prez obama don't ♪ ♪ my prez obama don't ♪ ♪ my prez obama don't want none until you pass bills hon ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> and in the latest development, republicans are now threatening to insert their own immigration language into a a must-pass spending bill. for more on all of this, join us on "nbc nightly news" where, just tonight, i celebrated my

a parisian company that does this for the john hancock building in chicago they're going to do this hereis expected to open up next summer. >> great. >> i'd like the see the city from a different view. let's take a look in chester county. we have a warning on 202 approaching 401. it's fine right now but southbound they're scheduled to have a traffic pattern change tonight and into tomorrow morning. so that one could create a little problem tomorrow tomorrow morning. be careful. northbound we've got no delays just yet coming from chadds ford west chester or exton. you're looking pretty good. and mass transit is on time, dave. >> karen we're in the low 40's across much of the region. by nine we'll still be at 44. this will be a mild day. by noon 51, 50 bee 3 o'clock. sandwiched in between a high of 52 around 2 o'clock and then pretty quickly back into the mid 40's by dinnertime. there is also going to be a breeze blowing that we didn't have yesterday gusting 20 to 25 miles per hour. so, look out for that. national radar got some continued storm activity up and down the coast of california

was court-martialed at the end of that campaign forgo some people say he was a scapegoat because john hancockwho would run the campaign have done a bad job and they need somebody to blame it all and they blamed it on custer. on the other hand, custer did abandon some of his guys in the field and he had some deserters shot, and did some other things. so, you know, you be the judge. you can read the record and see. it's in the book, too, but custer thought he was framed and he was being scapegoated. shared and agreed with him, but it didn't matter to cuba still court-martialed and suspended for a year. just two years after the civil war when he was a great hero, now he is suspended from duty. and has to take the year off. a bad time for custer. he didn't let it show. he spent a lot of time hunting and fishing, that kind of thing, that it wasn't good. then he was resurrected because the problem with the indian wars was you couldn't find the enemy. the same problem today. when you can find the guerrillas, you know, the taliban or the islamists take on whoever happens to be cut if you can find the

extensively in the author three works on american history and 10 biographies including jan hand -- john hancock, the new book john marshall, chief justice to saved the nation and moderating the final discussion is judge david west, a great friend of the center and mind and will be capable hands. he served on the superior court of pennsylvania since 2012. was the court of common pleas and has presided over important cases. an administrative judge and , lover of thoughtful the constitution of magnificent moderator. them.join me in welcoming [applause] >> thank you so much. . great pleasure to be here in front of such a wonderful audience. who has given us a fantastic new book about the great chief justice john marshall. the book is subtitled, the chief justice who saved the nation. in the short time we have him, i am sure he will give you insights on to some of the contributions that chief justice marshall gave us, although with only an hour program, a scholar can only begin to clear his throat about the subject before the curtain comes down. getting right to it. i suppose the first question that

c-span: sitting at a table with john hancock. who was he? >> guest: he was the president of congress. c-span: where was he from? >> guest: and he was from massachusetts. c-span: you can see then, i believe, it's mr. thomson there, the secretary, standing. >> guest: yes. ok. c-span: and that painting, again, is in the rotunda of the capitol. >> guest: it is. now it shows a large num--probably a far larger number of the members of the second continental congress than were actually present. john adams later criticized that painting. he called it a 'shin' piece because it showed everybody's knees, i think. and he said it was part of the evolving myth--historical myth that was starting to become apparent in the 1820s; that there were more people there were more people there because we don't know how many people were actually there when the declaration was presented to congress--the draft was presented to congress. we don't really know altogether how many were there on the fourth of july because they didn't keep attendance. the document wasn't act

john. >> paula hancocks 36 hours into that search.t 40 hours they do not believe there could be any more survivors. >> you can imagine that's tore chur russ pane for the families of the 162 people on board the planes people crying xrel yelling, demanding answers how a plane can vanish without a trace. will ripley is live on the ground in beijing we are action. it's very unlikely survivors will be found that. news must have been dpreeted so greeted so grimly will. >> it's one thing to know the odds it's actually different to be somebody awaiting a loved one to come home from a plane, an airplane flight some assume will be safe. there are families in beijing that have loved ones still missing, more than 150, as a matter of fact yet, those people today were sobbing and crying saying they still wait for their loved ones to come home even though that plane has been missing ten months. people here in china know the suffering and anguish airasia flight 8501 are going through right now. they have been living it every single day. that uncertai

we have paula hancocks joins us with the latest. >> reporter: john we are seeing the search and rescue operation grow. we have seen additional ships and helicopters. the helicopters and planes have come here to the airports on the island in belitung. this is the closest land mass to the area where the plane lost contact with the controllers. this is the area where the helicopters are coming to refuel and briefing and where they should go next. we spoke to the head of the search and rescue efforts here in belitung. i asked him, does he think there could be survivors still. he said if the plane did land in the water, it is very unlikely. if it did manage to crash or land on land there is a jungle area. he mentioned to the east of here. he said it is still possible. the area that they are searching is large. 240 nautical miles by 240 nautical miles. they sliced it up to be systematic about it. they have to make sure there is no overlap and they are not missing any areas. they are combing through that area. not just at sea, also on land, to see if they can find any sign of it. john. >> pau

hancock. she was somebody who had these different influences and kind of synthesized them into this or n organic hole. she was coming from the doo-wop, the jazz -- johntrain of a big influence on her. and she was coming from just the basic folk singer song writing genre, as well. and all of these get synthesized into this kind of organic hole where you get -- where you then just you focus on the drama and the power of the stories that she's telling. >> great storyteller, half italian, half jewish. change her name. >> yeah. it was renally n-i-g-r-o. and i guess she didn't want -- >> she didn't want nigro. half italian, half jewish is enough. i got to be a negro, too? changed it to ,é!n-y-r-o. inducted posthumously into the rock and roll hall of fame, 2012, i think? >> yeah, 2012 she goes into the hall of fame. >> well served. >> yeah. degrees in '97. >> of ovarian cancer. the same disease that claimed her mom at the same age. >> wow. >> at age 49. >> died young. way too young. >> way too young. >> speaking of young, you've got young folk and not so young folk on this project. everybody and their mother. >> yeah, i know -- >> all of your friends showed

to surabaya we want to go to paula hancock, she got back to land minutes ago after being out on a search effort to see the search efforts firsthand, paula? >> well john just speaking to some of the officials here we have new information about what will happen to some of the victims that are now being found at the location. we understand from officials here that they will be brought to this island they will be brought to a port about an hour away from here. the reason they're not going to the closer island is simply because the water is not deep enough to accommodate the navy ship that will be transporting them. we understand that the bodies are being retrieved from the water. it's not clear how long it will be until they come back do shore. but the trip will take about seven hours. so it will be some time. and of course as you can see, the light is fating now, it's just after 6:00 in the evening, there's not much light left so for the helicopters that are helping retrieve the bodies it will be difficult as well. and in the town about an hour away from here on wednesday, tomorrow we will see the national transport safety commission arriving according