were mary and joseph turned away from an inn in bethlehem 2,000 years ago? and the miracle of the virgin birth. is that intended as the literal truth in matthew and luke? the gospels give us one description of the birth of jesus. do archaeology and history give us another? joining us to answer these questions areu.s. open, the aute brand new "jesus of nazareth cunning of the and jeffrey sheler author of the brand new "is the bible truth?" anncr: creating a financial safety net can seem like an impossible goal. complicated. intimidating. something other people get to do. but once you take the first step. you'll find there's nothing standing in your way. metlife. i can do this. >>> tell us what you think happened at bethlehem, jeffrey she'ller. >> well when we read two gospels, only two of the four gospels even talk about the birth of jesus and when we read matthew and luke, those two gospels, we are certainly presented with different details surrounding the story of the birth but despite the differences there are several things that clearly come through and t

marie beal in correspondence in 1948 described the building as a shambles. and in the last stages of decay. but she also indicated that it was being fully utilized by her household at that time. when marie beal died in 1956, she bequeathed the decatur house to the national trust for historic preservation. cesar and ida you see pictured who had emigrated from italy to work as servants for marie beal in 1951 continued to live in the slave quarters with their four children until 1961, making them the last residents of the building, and indeed the last private residents of lafayette square. the top right photograph shows the eldest child, claudia, in slave quarters with the last african-american resident of the building, a woman named mary who worked as a cook in marie beal's household, and she left the property in the early 1950s. these photographs while they sort of look like family snapshots are actually the only documentation of the interior of the slave quarters while it was being used as a living space that we have been able to uncover. and they indicate i

thank you, mary.hey could all be sentenced to death. >>> no decisions today in the child sex abuse case against former penn state coach jerry sandusky. his attorney called for the charges to be dropped. but the judge postponed the investigation. sandusky faces more than 50 counts of sexuality acts, involving boys, dating back to 1994. >>> the florida man accused of shooting and killing unarmed teen trayvon martin, has an a new attorney. he was quick to defend his client publicly. piers morgan said martin was responsible for his own death. he also accused the media of destroying his client before knowing what happened. >> he was absolutely entitled to defend himself. and that's why trayvon martin is dead, not because of racial profiling. >> there has been outrage and calls for him to be arrested. police say they have no reason to believe he didn't act in self-defense. a special prosecutor is investigating. >>> u.n. security council calls on syria to comply with a deadline to end the violence. monica vi

to a virgin named mary. whose husband, joseph, was of the lineage of david. and this according to the writers of those two gospels was in fulfillment of the hebrew prophesies. so despite very clear and seemingly troubling contradictions in some of the details the more important thing is, i think, the points on which they disagree. >> on the physical -- on the physical details was it an inn or was it a two-story house? >> an inn or a two-story house. that's an interesting question. there certainly is a theory now that it was a two-story house. that the word that is oftentimes translated "inn" is a word that really should be translated "house" and that the couple were not turned away by a mean, old innkeeper but rather were let into the guest room of a typical two-story palestinian house. >> or was it the guest room was filled and they were told that they could rest with and sleep with the animals who were, where downstairs? >> the first story, the first floor is typically a place where the animals were kept. consequently, there would be a manger there. >> paul

today she talks with nurse patty martin about mary's progress. >> she's walking around. is eating better. she is gaining weight. >> mary is doing so well soon she will have to be taken off it is something she's come to depend upon. hospice. it's just one more issue a hospice chaplain confronts. what helps her cope and decompress, says egan, is a happy home life -- two children, a supportive husband, two dogs. she prays, meditates, hikes, and dances. it helps, too, she concedes, to maintain a certain distance from her patients. >> i have to remember that it's not about me, right? it's not personal. i'm a passing person in their life. you know, i'm not his wife, i'm not his daughter, i'm not his mother. not even his best friend. you know, i'm his chaplain, and that's a very different role. >> and when that distancing isn't enough, kerry says, she relies on her faith. >> that gives me a lot of strength to do this. to be able to say that this is not the end and that life is hard, and really hard things happen but that we can be with each other. we can help each other through

and from marie osmond. in 1974, my first time on "bandstand" i thought dick clark was the most handsome man in show business. marie osmond will be our guest later on this hour. dick clark's life was an amazing american story. richard wagstaff clark, his full name. he was born in mt. vernon, new york, in 1929. he started working at his uncle's radio station as a teenager. that was a passion he continued to pursue through college and after graduating he moved to philadelphia where he became a dj at radio station wfil. wfil also had a tv station. and it was there that dick clark became the dick clark we know. >> you were doing a popular radio show? >> i was doing the radio version of it. >> i see. with kids coming over? no. they just called it bandstand. they tried to lock them together hip to hip to work off the television show. dan melnick, he was a famous television producer, he came down to watch it and he wrote a memo saying i don't know why, but i think we ought to buy this. they bought it for a seven-we

>> yeah, mary. despite that dramatic setback, prosecutors are barreling forward with their case, and they're attempting to paint a picture of the case as bullies who may have tried to cover things up. >> on thursday, prosecutors called on several witnesses, in their case against the werdesheim brothers. 24-year-old elyia hue and brother afi are accused of beating another boy. one witness, said he watched the werdesheims follow him in the vehicle. telling him he didn't belong. the witness said he was scared. he was petrified. it looked like he didn't want to be there. >> the story corroborates what he told investigators. and he even told the judge he believes the charges should be dropped. >> community activists are explosly monitor -- closely monitoring the trial. >> i think the case is still very much in motion. and the generality public should know -- general public should know that righteousness will prevail in this case. >> he admitted he allowed him to edit an article. which included an exclusi

poor mary couldn't seem to win. she wanted to be and had always been an adviser to her husband, but this is a new arena and a bigger issue. he was facing larger problems and so she didn't have the contact with her husband and the influence that she had wanted to have, so that was a disappointment to her, although she did play a role in his re-election. she wrote letters to state leaders to try and have them support her husband. she tried to have influence. it just wasn't the right environment for the first lady that she was desperately trying to be. >> let's talk about the dress. who made her gown. >> elizabeth keckly made that dress. she was an african-american seamstress. she had been a slave. she purchased her own freedom through money she made as a seamstress. she moved to washington, d.c. and set up very successful business. she was also the dressmaker for the wife of jefferson davis who asked her to go south with them when the confederacy moved to richmond, asked her to go to richmond. she chose not to. she in

clearly mary is an incredible lady. mr. president, my mary is maureen. maureen, too, was someone who started working for me when she was very young, 17 years old, 1974, 1975, i don't know exactly when. i was hiring people, this little young girl came to my office. i could tell this young girl knows the meaning of work. she is catholic, irish catholic and this lady knows the meaning of hard work. i hired her on the spot. she is my office manager. she is with me even to this date. she is tough, she's smart, she organizes, she's the glue. she's a super, super lady. we all have our marys and our maureens and i just want this moment to just praise mary and maureen but all those who work so hard for us in so many different capacities. mr. president, the renownsd poet -- renowned poet and author maya ang alo lieu wrote "history with all its unending pain cannot be outlived but faced with courage need not be lived again." i stand here today to once again lend my strong support, voted for as the majority of our colleagues did, for the violence against women act.

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we have a look. >> the mary rose. as many of us remember, as seen through a mist of water and preservative. but all that will soon change. for more than two years, the khmer rose -- mary rose has been brought back as conservation team struggle with a new problem. how do you continue to treat the ancient timbers while bringing it to dock? >> we are removing -- >> week by week, more of the items found with the ship are emerging from the preservation tanks. >> we freed the objects, and then we'd remove the air from the chamber, so we have low pressure. the process is called sublimation. weekend move water from these objects without changing the shape or size of the object. >> essentially 14,000 items will be on display. simon has spent 20 years cataloging them. >> i can still smell tarp. >> that is right. >> would longbows. -- wooden longbows. shoes. personal belongings. >> your not going to tell me the nits were still there? >> you can see one of the gold coins. this is a bold angel. >> , would this be worth today -- ho

this is the real mary poppins.he brings the costume to life. >> eferl layers of tights, corset, bloomers, two different skirts, three different shirts,ist enjoyable and challenging. i love sharing the story and sharing it with adults. >> reporter: this adult is having a tough time getting out of character. >> this is the mary poppins pose. follow me. [music] mary bubala, wjz 13 eye witness news. mary poppins is at the hipaa dropple through next sunday. ,,,, homicide of young people in america ,,,, has an impact on all of us. how can we save these young people's lives? as a police chief, i have an opportunity to affect what happens in a major city. if you want to make a difference, you have to have the right education. university of phoenix opened the door. my name is james craig, i am committed to making a difference, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. ing in to the inner harbor. it is a nice looking day's start. sharon has traffic after marty's first morning

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she escaped punishment, but mary's mother did not. when she refused to walk under a union flag, a federal officer ordered her to leave the city and the home was confiscated. mary got away with it, and her mother could not -- a popular way to defy union authority again is fashion. it was kind of a subtle thing, but to be able to kind of defy authority by transforming their dress, changing sort of dress habits. one example is with hoop skirts. sort of the famous image of the hoop skirt of the southern belle. many young women believed that this was a frivolous trend, and was certainly not a good thing during these hard times of war. and so a lot of the young women went without their hoops as kind of a show of support for the confederacy. they were avoiding sort of the unnecessary luxuries. other young women did it as a form of defiance. a good example is in the occupy town of memphis, tennessee, the newspaper reported that although hoop skirts are plentiful in memphis, the rebel women have agreed among themselves not to wear them. it is

mary sue's recipe has not changed since day one. ron matz, eyewitness news. >> we know what you are wondering it. so, how did the company get its name. >> well, mary and sue were the daughters of one of the founders of the company. >> so, two names. >> mary and -- yeah. who knew. now we do. >> we know. >>> coming up next on eyewitness news saturday morning -- ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> welcome back to eyewitness news saturday morning -- it is 6:30. i'm gigi barnett. >> i'm tim williams. the temperatures are in the 30s and 40s across the area. we're rebounding now. the sun is up here in an hour, but we are rebounding from cold lows. we had freeze warnings in affect for much of the area, but the horizon is bright. high pressure in control. bringing in very cold air from canada. so, it is south. the dew point is low. hardly any moisture in the atmosphere, sole no clouds. the clouds don't insulate us and don't allow for the heat. all of the heat is raising up and out. 32 in oakland. 37 only had shore. the freeze warning is in effect for the

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but he clearly had a second set of children and mary chestnut thinks that this is wrong. she thinks it's horrible. and she said that her father-in-law was a tyrant like the czar of russia. he could do anything and get away with it and the hypocrisy of it bothers mary chestnut. again, these are private communications. they say a diary is often a substitute for a human relationship and she probably couldn't communicate how she really felt to other people in her life so she pours out her feelings in her diary. we must also remember that there are some conservative white women who are part of the pro slavery argument. a tiny number, even though women are not supposed to participate in public debates on slavery or anything else, they are supposed to focus on the family and on private life. but nonetheless there are a few people who publish supporting the pro slavery argument. another south carolinian, actually an acquaintance of mary chestnut, her name was lousea mccord. and lousea mccord lived a life of great privilege, the daughter of a very wealthy man, she married a very w

i will start with mary. >> thank you. i thought all this testimony from the community speakers was incredibly moving and shows a wide range of issues that really has to be addressed. i guess i slipped into my pragmatic mode at some point and try to figure out what the calculation is, basically in terms of what the market will bear. it is clear, political pressure from around the country is often what helps to determine that, but we can also tell by watching how things develop, that there are forces impinging on what will actually get accomplished. i think the critical thing is to remember there are two ways that we can influence what the government does. there is the legislative, cir approach, and there is the administrative reform. some of which does not require legislation. some of the stories we were hearing, particularly from the business perspective, is about changing the way people do business, in terms of the government, changing the way we think about the relationships that exist. a lot of that can be done by pres

[laughter] , to believe, mary, that things will be resolved in conference -- i want to believe, mary that things will be resolved in conference. maybe because i am older than mary, i remember what happened with the 1990 and 1996 legislation where bad stuff remained in the bill. but i will defer to marry in terms of -- yes, if there is bad language, you try to influence the conference. let me go to a different point. first of all, the dream act and uafa, we have to fight hard for that. one thing that we'v need to do s pressure the administration. they have the responsibility, too, and it is being quarterbacked by people in homeland security. we should be talking to them about this. in terms of family immigration, it is funny. i alluded earlier to 2007 and the awful point system that was proposed. the funny thing is, if you went back one more year to 2006, the mccain-kennedy bill, there were great provisions in terms of family immigration, clearing the backlogs and extra numbers. so it is a shame that senator kennedy has passed away and it is a shame that so has senator mccain. [laught

we begin with lynch and his wife mary who reportedly came to the district in the second decade of the century. two of their sons, william and james, became the first most well-known members of the family through the middle years of the century, with james achieving the greatest prominence. in turn, james and his wife anna, raised four children in the golden era of life in washington with two of their sons, james t. and william h.a., expanding on that solid found indication into the 20th century. today we will see how the family interfaced on a daily basis with almost all of those who lived, worked and toiled in this internationally famous yet intimate neighborhood. lynch was the illegitimate son of an unknown black woman, and ralph wormley whose wife was elizabeth talo wormley. the wormleys were a wealthy family of virginia plantation owners. whose primary residence was rosevale, in virginia, and elizabeth was the daughter of john talo, a planter who built the octagon house near here. her brother, benjamin olo talo, was a residents of la fayette park on madison place. as we will see l

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our mary snow is taking a closer look at the story for us. mary? >> wolf, u.s.g their leaders is carefully watching its words as it figures out how to respond to a vatican reprimand while others are privately wondering what it will mean for the future. to get a sense of the work catholic nuns do consider sister mary scullion. >> this block was filled with abandoned houses. and, you know, there was a lot of violence on this block, gun violence. >> reporter: sister mary took her fight to end homelessness to this philadelphia neighborhood more than a decade ago and moved in. the nationally recognized group she cofounded, project h.o.m.e. turned empty buildings into homes and built a school that created jobs. >> a lot of people in the community are grateful to her for being here and opening up so many doors to a lot of people who thought their lives were just ending. >> reporter: sister mary is eager to talk about her work, but like many nuns she is not willing to publically speak about harsh vatican report that unnerved many communities of nuns in the u.s. the vati

the mary rose was the flagship and sank during a battle in 1545. as for more than 450 years to a multimillion-dollar project launched into unlocked the secrets of the ship and her crew. >> of the mary rose as any of us remember her. all that will soon change. mary rose has been hidden away, while conservation teams had experts wrestle with a unique problem. how do you build a brand new museum around the ship while continuing to treat the ancient timbers. >> another test is underway. >> week by week, more found with the ship a emerging from the reservation. >> we remove the air from the chamber so we have no pressure. under those conditions, the process is called sublimation. we can move water from these objects without changing the shape of the object. >> 14,000 items will be on display as you have sections with the election specialists. >> it remains, and it preserves the row. >> tankards, shoes, and personal belongings. there not going to tell me nets were still there. >> we can see one of the gold coins that was recovered. that is a gold angel.

mary is in the newsroom with more. mary?ore than 200 gallons of oil spilled, killing wetlands and fragile wildlife. the fda says crabs, shrimp and fish are safe to eat. but two years, scientists find lesions and and other deformities. the oil flowed for 85 days before finally being capped. >> the disaster cost gulf states billions of dollars in lost tourism. >>> she wanted to be hit by a car. that's wapolice say a woman was trying to do by riding her bicycle into cars on purpose in california. jeff nguyen has more. >> on the corner, by the red light. >> reporter: it was around 6:30 monday evening, when rita cobbian noticed a car crash from her store, involving a bicycle,a the intersection of azusa avenue and arrow highway in covina. police say 20-year-old was weaving between cars to get hit on purpose. >> she was actually looking for an opportunity to get involved in a collision and potentially ask for money. >> reporter: police say pangburn is a homeless person in the area, who they say tried to pull the same scheme about f

and i'm mary bubala. here's what people are talking about. that breaking news just into the wjz newsroom. long-time powerhouse producer, and abc's new career's eve, rocking eve host, dick clark, has died. details surrounding his death are unclear. but clark had suffered a significant stroke, back in 2004, forcing him to retire. the tv legend also suffered from type 2 diabetes. clark has been married three times and has three children. he started his career, hosting "american bandstand." he was affectionately called america's teenager because he never seemed to age. dick clark, dead at age 82. wjz will have much more on dick clark and his death, coming up, all new at 5:00 and 6:00 tonight. >>> shocking new scandal. photographs of u.s. troops in afghanistan, that appear to show soldiers, posing next to bodies. danielle nottingham reports for wjz. the u.s. is launching a criminal investigation. >> reporter: top u.s. officials are strongly condemning photos the los angeles times published that appear to show

marie beale who bequeathed decatur house to the national trust for historic preservation in 1956 and also wrote a history of lafayette square, she states that john gadsby's stay there was an unfortunate chapter in the house's long history. he turned the house into an auction block. you could hear the wales and cries of unfortunate people being sold down south as you walked past eighth street. however, this is regarded in part as hearsay. there has been much dispute among scholars about how much john gadsby could have been involved in the slave trade if at all. seraphin who worked as a research fellow did exhaustive work on john gadsby. she argued he was a victim of anti-americanism and snob by from people like marie beale who may have revealed him as a self made man as an intrusion upon the square. conversely, carla jones argues in his master's thee tis t hidden history of lafayette square, given the veiled but deeply intertwined nature of slavery in the square, gadsby's association with the slave trade is a great possibility. determining if he participated in the slave trade is more