earl shuttleworth is maine's state historian and also the director of the maine's historic preservationmission. thanks for being here. and elizabeth blair is an expert on the civil war region era and president of colby college. an export -- expert on the civil war region, for . let me have you set the stage for us about mid-1880s america. we're 20 years past the civil war. what was the country like at that time as we're going into this election where he was a contender?Ñi >> i would start by saying we're a long ways past the civil war in many ways. and i think that's indicated by the fact that there is going to be a democratic president that is elect that had year, and that would have been unthinkable just a short time before that, so that's one thing to say. >> why would it have been unthinkable? >> because the republicans were the winners of the war, and they had controlled the government for a long time and they had controlled reconstruction, and it feels to many people like a handoff to the south to let the democrats come into the white house. >> i'll stay with you for a second main

and then the state of maine brought mr. and mrs. blaine's remains back to augusta, and they reside in a beautiful blaine memorial above the cemetery here if augusta. >> how long did his wife live after him? >> until 1903, about ten years. >> we have very little time. we have a local caller. augusta, maine. this is jonathan. >> caller: yes. this question might be answered earl shut she -- shettleworth there. what was the relationship of mr. blaine toward the native population of the state? native american population? because we know there were natives in the civil war, had their own regiments and what not down in the south. >> thank you, jonathan. i'll jump in because our time is really short. big question but short time. >> yeah. i'm not sure that i have a quick answer for that. >> is that right? any place to go for that? is there material available in maine's historical -- >> i would definitely look to neil's book to staut

tell me about maine -- little bit more about maine and this time period. we talked about earlier on about him coming here as a young man. how difficult would it have been for him to establish himself? >> i think that he had a very good connection with his wife's family. they were a prominent family here in augusta. and actually that connection for him to become the editor of the journal was essentially made by family and friends who wanted his wife back here and also wanted to make that opportunity available to him as well. he came really at a perfect time. 1850 az, decade just before the civil war. maine is really at a zenith of prosperity and there is a -- recession in the late 1850s. generally speaking, maine is really cresting in both its economic and its political force at that time. >> last week we were at the home of henry clay. were there connections between james g. blaine and henry clay? >> there were in a sense that he had grown up in a house where clay was absolutely idolized and clay was an idol for him as well. and when he was a young man he

maine is your expertise.k to you about north and south america, country, northern and southern states, excuse me, and the difference in the economies? >> the civil war had crushed the economy in the south. so one of the key goals of reconstruction was to get the economy up and running again and that was largely on the way to success, certainly by the middle of the 1880s, but it is on i would say very much northern terms how the south is being rebuilt. >> james g. blaine was a powerhouse by 1884, known internally as well as nationally, but maine hadn't been in the union all that long. >> maine had originally been part of massachusetts, since the colonial times, became a state in 1820, went into the union as the 23rd state. we were part of the missouri compromise. missouri was slave, maine was free. and by the post civil war period, maine had initially suffered a bit of a setback during the civil war. we had sent about 70,000 men to the war, about 10,000 had been lost, and our population in that decade of the 1

"continental liar from state of maine." we'll learn more about this colorful and very influential man from the 19th century known not only across the united states but around the world. to north carolina, douglas watching us there. you're on the air. >> caller: how are you? i would like to ask the historians what blaine's relationship was to joshua chamberlain, later governor of maine after the civil war. he was a republican. what was their relationship? >> of course as you mention, chamberlain served four terms right after the civil war and chamberlain was a very independent individual and he was not comfortable with blaine's brand of politics. there is ample evidence they did not get along that well and they were not close compatriots. he became president of a college and later on collector of the port of portland. >> we had a caller that mentioned the town that was named for james blaine off the railroads. we did research and there may be more. we found a number of towns and counties around the united states named for ja

there was instead a giant water main break, a 12 inch water main buried beneath the ground near met life stadium erupted yesterday morning around 3 a.m. turning one of the busiest roads into new york city to what looked more like a parking lot. traffic was backed up for miles just because of a water main break. it want just new jersey. let's say you were due in court at the hargrove district courthouse in baltimore, maryland. what you would have found when you showed up for court this morning was the entire courthouse was shut down. it was shut down today after you guessed it, a giant water main broke nearby. >> and in st. louis, they had to shut down lanes of hampton avenue and a water main break. it's one of the most heavily traveled roads in st. louis. and in atlanta, a giant water main break there as well. now, this was the scene yesterday afternoon in pearl city, hawaii, right outside of honolulu. >> reporter: they've seen water main breaks along this drive before but this one made an even bigger splash monday afternoon. >> i heard the noise, started hearing rocks flying, some kind

the water main is from the early 1900s. age is a main contributing factor in the rupture. >> usually it is in situations like this. and the pipe is over a hundred years old. if there is heavy construction on the streets. obviously it was not an earthquake and if the street takes a pounding with bus traffic and accelerate the degradation of the pipeline. >> they are hoping to finish sometime between two and three and back out here live. mason between beach and jefferson is close to traffic. you can see they have the water main and new one, ready to go out there. ready to be replaced. >> businesses are open and you can go ahead and walk in and out of mason street. you just can't drive your car. >> reporting live in fisherman's wharf. >> this is channel 2 news. >> thank you, lorraine. >>> a pedestrian was taken to san francisco general hospital after he was hit by a muni street car. it happened on market near seventh street. a spokesperson said if a f market street car some how collided with the man. he was trapped underneath

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but the main lines of 11 are clear and the golden gate bridge is a very nice ride the delays and san francisco that two * ever traffic back to. the city of sunnyvale says is losing millions of dollars because the dispute between developers keeps all along the way it awaited project the original town center met the wrecking ball years ago now the intent was to replace it with a santana rhyolite developments with retail restaurant entertainment and housing but construction has long been solved with the center only partially built. to equate to where lacking an iconic downtown a thriving by the hapless city that we cut the fat years ago. but its aldus being held hostage right now. city officials estimate sunnyvale is losing $2 million in tax revenue every year that project stands incomplete. supporters as the libraries at his night in their effort to get a measure on says is november ballot the group's status as a library is just learned it needs more than 37,000 valid signatures is spokesperson tells the mercury news city officials initially said less than 20,000 were needed the measur

so the main thing is optimistic or pessimistic, the main answer is coming in this way. most egyptians are pessimist in the short term and optimist on the long term. okay. there is another question i usually ask people. how do you see the full half or the empty half of the cup? yeah, one of the best answer i get is that i see the full half but it's full of what? that's the main question in this case. and the main question in the coming weeks, i will say, not just two weeks, four weeks, four weeks during which egypt will be shaped, and you will see some of the question will be answered. as a matter of fact, in the last two or three weeks, whenever you read any analysis by experts, observers, analysts, and most of their questions are unanswered, still the situation is fluid. still egypt case is unclear. and it's true, because many factors, as mr. haggag explained it, this is the platform on which -- or the case which is in front of us. there is history, there is politics, there is religion factor or the use of religion as a factor in shaping things or misshaping things. in

if you want to shut off the power you shut off the little guys first than the main. when you throw a switch there is the arch. like water when water flows in an old house any you shut it off quick you get the hammer effect? that's like electricity. is it safe to do it if you smell natural gas? show of hands. >> nobody has their hands up. it's not safe to flicking any switches if you smell natural gas. how about if there is smoke coming out of an outlet. if you shut this off in an area where there is no gas, good idea. >> just about anything can be a hazardous material, cleaners, solvants, hair products anything can be hazardous. they are every where. the only time they are hazardous if they are misused our there is a disaster. do you see these in san francisco? that's probably propane. we have a port. in an industrial area. it identified where they are stored. are there hazardous storage places in this air? no. are there a dry cleaners? yes. who remembers grand auto. they have solvants, cleaners, octane boosters. it's great until there is a natural disaster. where do

southbound connecticut avenue northwest, remember yesterday's water main break? that's still closing lanes for you. in fact, only one lane gets you by between r street and n street. use caution, and expect delays throughout the day until they can work that out. i'll be back in ten minutes with another look at traffic. back to you. >> thank you. >>> danella mentioned that we want to offer more pictures on this if you're driving in the district today. a water main break that slowed you down yesterday, still there as danella said. two lanes closed between 18th and 19th. those closures are expected to last through at least the morning rush and could last

>> he was from maine. he was from portland, maine. and, in fact, lived there, retained a residence there even after he went to wall street after his congressional career. he was very attached to the pine tree state. >> how long did he serve in congress? >> 12 terms. could i have an essay exam -- or multiple choice exam. some of these are getting hard. he had 12 terms including three terms as speaker. >> how did he become speaker? what was it -- >> by sheer force of intellect and by prowess in the cut and thrust of debate and the devastating wit with which he dealt with the democratic enemy, all of that was in the credit column to his claims to be speaker. then, too, he was a political leader. he was -- people just looked up to him. he wasn't exactly physically magnetic. he was immense. he stood 6'3" and his weight sometimes approached 300 pounds, but he had a force of personality and of intellect that was overwhelming. >> we just finished a series of interviews with david cohn and one of him is about the artists that did the cover on

and the latest on the water main break in northwest d.c. and what is next for john edwards. what he says about a mistrial case.ed in his corruption "good morning washington" at 5:00 a.m. begins now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. it is friday morning. have made it to june 1. i am steve chenevey. hope you are having a good morning. we start with traffic and weather. moment, but adam caskey first. >> light rain early this morning. mainly south of washington, theh of the beltway along 95 corridor. moderate rain moving into king about to crossnd potomac into the charles county. fredericksburg, a spotsylvania, stafford, you are seeing rain on 95. in manassas and .anassas park bristow and haymarket as well. storms likely this afternoon and evening. of them being strong to severe. lisa. >> we're off to an interesting morning. have road repairs on avenue south of dupont circle where there was main break. a big crash being documented on between go to and upper marlborough. at traded is closed mill avenue. >> we expect

a minor water main break in this area. now, your closure is between wilton road and sharon chapel road. they're hoping to have this road open any minute now. definitely before the morning rush. aaron, back to you. >> all right. thank you. >>> well, you've heard of sleepwalking. how about sleep robbing. a man in connecticut says he was sleepwalking when he pulled a knife on a woman and tried to snatch her purse at a casino. he was later arrested. but he says he didn't know why he had the knife, and it must have thaty had was sleepwalking. the man's lawyer says his client has sleepwalked before. and he hopes his medical history can prove his innocence. >>> police may have a hard time getting someone to come ford crack the case. a worker at a bank in anne arundel county put money on the top of his car and drove off. i think the money is long gone. police are asking anyone who can help to give them a call. unfortunately, when you leave a bag of cash -- >> it will disappear quickly. and the odds of it showing up -- >> had stori

a gas main break yesterday continues to shut down rydell road at chapel court. stick with davidson or route 3 as an alternate. using the harrisburg expressway this is what it looks like at york. not too many cars out there just yet. you will be in the clear just 22 minutes from maryland pennsylvania line all the way down towards the beltway. once you get on the beltway, here's dry -- beltway, here's the drive time. if you are traveling on west side you are looking at a 12- minute trip from 795 to 95. megan. >> we have breaking news to tell you about happening out of southwest baltimore. that's where crews right now are working to put out a fire in a row home that is happening onsponson street. firefighters believe the house is vacant but it's important because the surrounding homes they believe they are occupied. abc2 sherrie johnson joins us live on the phone with more. what can you tell us right now? >> reporter: good morning. yes, we are live here in southwest baltimore on the scene of the early morning fire. crews are still on the scene right now. the call c

it has three main parts to protect small businesses and encourage job growth, to generate revenue to support our economic recovery and to make the largest corporations pay their fair share. i am happy to have the co- sponsor ship of many of the members of my -- the board of supervisors. i want to thank the great work of the comptroller's office in putting this measure together. ted egan for his work, reaching out to many parts of the business sector and much of the modeling that has been going on. ben rosenfield and others. we have the opportunity of taking our business tax system which is an archaic system based on payroll which does have an inhibiting effect on job creation in san francisco. we also are -- we of the current extension of ipos. we are the -- we have a current extension of ipo's. this would elminate the taxation that occurs. it will happen if we don't make changes to the community. revenue generation is a vital part of what we want to do with our business tax especially in 2001, there was a change that happened when many businesses, some of the largest corporations in

engine is wanted to observe how low level air flows affected the useful life of the engines was the main story. of. the project to. eventually scrapped in one nine hundred seventy two the lessons learned during the time trials lead to improvements that made more mild mannered high speed trains possible thank you the engineers involved a few new things to dream about. what i was going to get into the process of building this test. the aircraft engineers came up with a fantastic idea to create a new type of high speed transport monorail powered by jet engines in the mirror which could reach speeds of up to five hundred kilometers but. never pursued that idea a group in france did as early as nine hundred sixty five french engineers tried out a new design that was part of monorail craft basically twofold to power the vehicle using jet propulsion and to race it off the ground slightly so that the only resistance left was that of the air over twelve years numerous prototypes were built later versions moved away from turbo jet engines with the last model employing dual six thousand nine hundre

main downside risks to the global economy you mention of course very slow economic recovery where do you see the new tigers and what is the present role of brics nations strong growth economies the world of being an emerging markets until recently the brics by that i was sold some of the rising power as you know of turkey in the asia you know or mexico's not just the brics what concerns about the briggs and other emerging market is in all of them for the federal reserve there is now a slowdown of growth you see it in china see iraq sitting in brazil in part of this because europe and you are sort of slowing down if not constructing but in part is because many of these companies are move their way from market oriented but a form of towards them all below growth companies about referred to as a state that he's too much government about as they call it me too much of all of the state owned banks saying all the enterprise is too much protection is too much resource nationalism and over time that's a negative because of a slowdown potential growth is going to lead to lower the long run be

and i know that's true in maine. the "new york times" a few months ago did a front-page story on a couple who had virtually, you know, very little income, $1,200 a month, and yet their home heating bill was $3,600 for the season, and a company came in and volunteered to insulate their house, and they were able to improve the efficiency by 46% and saved more than $1,200 with respect to their energy bill. the point is i think that we need to provide some type of tax credits, or, on the other hand, if we have overall tax reform which i hope we will, long overdue, how low do the tax rates have to go that would benefit consumers to make these investments? otherwise, if they didn't benefit from tax credits. you know, i've had tax credits for energy efficiency, and, unfortunately, it got reduced to $500. when it was in the stimulus plan, it was up to 1,500 at a 20% tax credit of the overall cost and it was a huge bonanza for many people in maine because we have the oldest housing stock in the country. and so people who did

my main question concerns the use of square and that provision. this might result in now where or viruses. i think it is possible for -- is it not possible for a virus to get your credit card? >> i could not speak to that. >> in any event, if the driver hops to have a square, on the iphone to use that, folks say they you should download square. a great number of people recognize the benefits. what would be the benefits of having this amended ever so slightly so that the customer to choose whether to use it. >> from my place down here on the totem pole, it would be my preference that it be the experience that they do not know. that would be assisted a lot in the back of every taxi. ultimately i think that is a policy choice. i defer to the policymakers who have an opinion. our goal was to try to recognize the incredible popularity of the squared device drivers and the growing acceptance of the device but drivers. the fact that it is pci compliant according to my research. aerophone -- veriphone is here. go free to contradict me if i am incorrect. >

that was the main source of getting what they wanted. a long tradition of accommodating these southern views. the second is the majority of southerners, lincoln himself opposed secession. there was only one state, texas, in which secession was by referendum. one of, if not the most noted authority on the south and secession, almost freeling in the road to secession -- or disunion volume 2 argues if southerners voted two thirds were nonslave owning southerners. earn understood the dire risks that one took by seceding. lincoln in his inaugust rat made it clear according to his view there should be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. the central republican platform in which lincoln was voted -- elected was that slavery was evil. prohibit the spread into federal territories. in the wake of the state seceding and the confederacy formed, jefferson davis took it on washington's birthday. many if not republicans were basically -- if we give away the nonextension platform we give away everything. so those were his chief aims. it w

something will change the main thing is that the main problem with face is that all the countries in europe they have a lack of competition they are not competitive and we don't we don't face this problem we don't face the problem of competitiveness and as long as we do not address this problem it's there's no solution and just paying off that that's because there will be more debts tomorrow and more debts the day after tomorrow. if we do not face this problem we can't change anything just your reaction to what's happened recently always seems that. you turn but she certainly backed down against a lot of pressure from the other eurozone countries concerning obviously bailouts and euro bonds and all the rest of it was decided that that summit do you feel that germany is in danger of isolating itself and indeed. clearly losing a lot of support and losing its influence in europe now. well i mean the main concern we do have the group i do is present and this is the majority of the people here in germany is. that we are losing our democratic system so what we can do in the in the future i

>> the main headache facing the coach is sorting out his defense. that has been a bit of concern in the last few games via the main question is who is a partner in the center. when defenders experience was slow, and what is very promising but does not seem to have earned their trust yet. someone has got to deal with renaldo in portugal. >> germany among the favorites, but spain still very strong. are they still the ones to be? that yes. i think they are missing key players, but they have so much strength and depth it is really quite incredible. they are formidable on the ball and very well organized without it. i think the only question is whether they are hungry enough to go and we need their tournament in a row. that will be fascinating to see. >> the competition is always full of surprises. do you see any in the making in this tournament? >> i do. i think people have been equipped -- a bit too quick to write off poland. they are one of the hosts. they will have the support of a whole nation behind them. they have a core of quality players. so i t

punishment for political punk rockers known as pussy riot were arrested for performing at moscow's main cathedral find out how russian society is quite split over the issue. the eurozone is breathing a sigh of relief after the greek socialist leader adults that three parties have agreed on a coalition government following sunday's sunday's election. it comes after weeks of uncertainty and fears that an anti bailout party would have a majority in parliament however the crisis focus is now shifting to spain which is set to see another round of protests on wednesday with this report hotties jacob grieves. we're hearing that that government will be headed up by mr marson leader of new democracy who won in the recent election three way coalition that's what we're seeing at the moment now they're going to be out to john together one hundred seventy nine seats in this three hundred seat parliament that could prove very crucial going to be passing is a very unpopular austerity likely in the future legislation associated with it greeks they have some monsters but they're still really lacking in

forces land on the main island of okinawa. they have the advantage in troop numbers and fire power, but the japanese army puts up fierce resistance. the american advance is slow. and each advance comes at a huge cost in lives. artillery and bombs pound the tropical island. the intense barrage flattens whole mountains. locals call it iron rain. many civilians are killed. some are caught in the cross-fire. others drafted by the japanese army perish in combat. the casualties include schoolgirls, mobilized as nurses. the brutal fighting continues for three months. the final death toll including american soldiers 200,000 people. half are okinawans, one in every four living on the island. u.s. forces built bases on the island. from here it could stage raids on japan's main islands. 67 years later, the bases remain. the u.s. military has more than 20,000 troops deployed on the island. and okinawa remains its most strategically important site in east asia. >> despite those events, memories of the war are fading. the population of okin