he had confessed to the murders of mary lee wilson and another woman. victims had been killed in the same way. both were signature killings. but in the four years in prison lemuel smith had been a model prisoner. he had found religion. he was an altar boy and rose to be the assistant to the catholic chaplain. this new position granted smith enormous freedom inside the prison, freedom most of the inmates didn't have. >> no way in the world that i could have killed her. the woman was beaten. the woman was supposed to have been sodomized. right? but this is right in a busy quarters. it's impossible. it can't be done. >> but prison officials found evidence that smith had some prior contact with donna payant and that the two developed a friendship. >> donna payant had made some contact with lemuel smith concerning an item, i believe it was a jewelry box, that she was looking to have made. lemuel smith, while in prison, was doing some wood carvings on occasion. >> in lemuel smith's prison file investigators found a report from dr. zvi clopot, a psychiatrist w

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and mary murphy is an independent director whose documentary about harper lee and "to kill a mockingbird" was featured on pbs' american masters. she's also the author of an accompanying book, "scout atticus and boo." wally, let me start with you. the interest in this must start with the phenomenon of "to kill a mockingbird," right? what explains that? why has it endured? >> well, i think first of all it's the voice of the character. scout finch, the adorably feisty child and also the fact that it evokes emotions from us, not only laughter some of scout's hijinks, but also anger at injustice. i think the combination of what is sweet and funny and what is really socially relevant is the, you know, that's the cocktail mix that makes people love this book. >> mary murphy, you looked at harper lee's life. how much of a surprise is this announcement? >> well it's fantastic. and it's a little surprising, although when you look at how the novel came to be, there is discussion of an earlier submission and this is clearly what this is is the first submission, and then harper lee and her editor wen

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the tip-off against the cavs. 2nd quarter andre iguodala runs past former saint mary's star matthew dell ba dove va. lee led golden state with 19. 3rd quarter cavs up by 6. lebron james took barnes to school with the jump shot. curry and thompson low shooting percentage and weren't getting the calls. steve kerr got one technical foul. that didn't fire up the troops. james steals with a dunk on the other end. james season high number of points. warriors lost. >>> stanford against oregon state. second half, the freshman michael humphrey 14 points 15 rebounds. later check out jason randall get hammered on his way to the hoop. stanford out scores the bs by 29 points in the second half. and they win 75-48. >>> sharks indoors red wings fans in the house. sharks 2-1 less than 7 minutes left but then! the equalizer 1:20 to go like groundhog day luke glendening another backhand goal for detroit. sharks lose 3-2. they are two points out of the play-offs spot. they are on the outside looking in. give it up to the san jose earthquakes. ribbon cutting today, and they play an exhibition game against los angeles tomor

author and filmmaker mary mcdonough murphy said the 304-page manuscript was discovered in a bank safe deposit box. >> harper lee's sister died and in the course of cleaning out this deposit box, lo and behold here is this manuscript attached to the original manuscript of "to kill a mockingbird." >> how do we know this is real? >> you can see it's written on a manual typewriter from the period. it has on the front of it the address where harper lee was living at the time in new york. but if you read the book more importantly, only harper lee could have written this novel. >> reporter: in a statement, lee said she passed the manuscript around to trusted friends to make sure it was worthy of publishing. writing, i am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years. >> her first novel came out of the blue a bolt out of the blue and then we never heard from her again. so the fact that we get to hear from her now is really exciting. >> reporter: for a new generation of readers, a new ending to an iconic american story. kate snow, nbc news, new york. >>> that is our broadcast on this tuesday nig

mary's exaggerating cathedral african-americans will earn the gpa 3.0 and higher will be honored last year you'll students receive on a medallion and mayor ed lee will be in attendance e attention of the program i said everyone to know that superintendent carranza richard carr do has been a supporter of this education thank you to the instructor gavin truit give him a hand and the earlier birthday boy and a special thank you to commissioner president murase for your support for helping fund this program each person will be dpoomentd accommodating $10 on february 25th we must raise more than $10,000 every year to support this tent to on bother of the students all are welcome to attend and we will also gladly take our donations i have a program given to the commissioners last yearbook let so thank you see you on february 25th there you go. >> thank you very much is ms. emily thompson here. >> thank you very much so next, we will have speakers on the co-location of rb wells and john o comfortable i'll call several names at the same time (calling names) please come forward i understand that translation will be provide and we want to hear from as ma

. >> the oakland mary ann the police chief and mayor ed lee while visiting the san francisco boys and girls club as well. >>> the latest unemployment numbers are out. more people are going back to work. 250,000 jobs were added in january much more than previous months. despite more jobs being added the unemployment rate inched up to 5.7% from 5.6%. the economists say that's not necessarily a bad thing since more people began looking for a job. average hourly wages also went up 12 cents. >>> 7:16. this our feel good story of the day. a teenager in north carolina went to target to buy a clip on tie. the employee said they had regular ties and brought a worker to teach the young man how to tie it. this picture was stopped by another customer and the target workers found that the 17-year- old was nervous going on a job interview and they taught him how to answer questions and the handshake and they cheered him on. they don't know how he did, if he did well. >> i love that story. >> it takes a village to step out and help a young person. >> our time is 7:17. hey sal you have a big traffic

highest totals in charles, saint mary's at 5, 6 within 7 inches. >> brand new crash at 66 and lees burgike. orange and silver line delays. >>> the winter storm dumped several inches of snow on d.c. and closed the federal government too. >> nbc meteorologist dillon dreyer for us on the snow covered national mall. even though we got a few inches of snow, it has to be better than boston this morning. >> in boston the snow is up to about here. now it's barely covering my foot. i'm totally happy to be here. i'm actually surprised we made it here. i had an 8:40 flight out of boston last night. got to baltimore about 10:30. e to washington, d.c. so the roads were a little sloppy but they were still okay. now, as you know, the roads are completely covered in sn mana. especially with the federal offices a lot of schools closed today. it keeps people off the roads and the crews can get up and working on the streets so we can get back up and running fairly quickly. i think the biggest story besides the 4 inches of snow will be the brutal cold. i thought it was interesting because it's not exactly

mary's exaggerating cathedral african-americans will earn the gpa 3.0 and higher will be honored last year you'll students receive on a medallion and mayor ed lee will be in attendance e attention of the program i said everyone to know that superintendent carranza

mary's exaggerating cathedral african-americans will earn the gpa 3.0 and higher will be honored last year you'll students receive on a medallion and mayor ed lee will be in attendance e attention of the program i said everyone to know that superintendent carranza richard carr do has been a supporter of this education thank you to the instructor gavin truit give him a hand and the earlier birthday boy and a special thank you to commissioner president murase for your support for helping fund this program each person will be dpoomentd accommodating $10 on february 25th we must raise more than $10,000 every year to support this tent to on bother of the students all are welcome to attend and we will also gladly take our donations i have

mary's cathedral an 11 lotta's fountain golf street a celebration this is sponsored by the alliance of black school a volunteer of san francisco unified school district educators this year mayor ed lee and san francisco board of supervisors president looerndz and supervisor cowen as well as representatives from the gates will be in attention not to mention our commissioners as well and they will all be in attendance congratulating 2 hundred african-american students that are 3.80 or higher gpa part of the conversation around our focus on achieving african-american student weather obey very, very clear we are taking a hats basic approach to relocating recognize the students that need a little bit of extra help 12 hundred african-american or grade point afternoon 3.0 and behavior and district leaders will be there and congratulations to all students we're very proud of you and wanted to thank our staff and volunteers in coordinating this event and finally on this particular note i wanted to thank all the parent and guardian and adult that played an important role in the lives without strong support of the guardian or parent that the students doesn't have a change thank you for making

mary's star matthew. turned himself into a fine nba mac bank. on this play back up off the floor. humiliation cross-over from andre. david lee to finish. team high 19 off the bench. lebron james in attack mode and the step back 3. 24 on the first half for king james in the off season. consider trading thompson. feel good for clay. locked. warriors down fifty half. gets worse in the third. curry mugged. no call. furious. curry only 4 second finance wish 18. having his way. over green. season high from a for lebron. impressive win for the cavs. 110-99. no rest for golden state. toronto tomorrow night. peyton son gary good one for oregon statement jumping out of the gym right there. jason ran doll chasing the elder peyton on the pack 12 scoring list. 31-30 lead. called clearing space. now anthony brown through the defense. currently it's 51-39 sanford in the second half. the giants world series trophy on the hilltop tonight. war memorial jim between defender toward the dunk. st. mary's dominating performance. hit 11 first half three. santa marries 20 at the half. lead by 30. late in the second half. stanford. women. also playing oregon st

mary murphy, welcome. what's the significance of this news? >> i think this is great news, for any reader, writer, scholar, it's a chance to see what harper lee did before she did "to kill a mocking bird" and anyone who wants more, is sink their teeth into it. >> you've spent a good chunk of your life working on this. and what is harper lee's contribution to american society and american culture? >> i think with her first novel, it was the context in which the novel appeared. she refused a story of a girl who reversed to see things in black and white. and it was a novel of suspense and coming of age and it intersected right in the 1960s with everything that was going on in this country. so in the same way that many people say uncle tom's cabin gave way to abolitionists, many civil rights activists say that harper lee gave them the way to keep going. >> why did she not write for all of those years? >> without talking to her directly, it's hard to answer that. she was a very shy young woman from alabama who got a lot of attention and publicity when her first novel came out. her sister, who died a couple of months ago, i was able to interview hi

mary johnny cash, he went through everybody he thought he owed a debt to. it was pretty cool. >>> coming up the controversy over a new novel from harper lee.ngbird" capable of making a decision to publish the book. for some your local news is next. for others stick around. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." >> you must have had a certain degree of confidence. >> it wasn't so much confidence. i was very surprised at how many people actually thought it wasn't going to work. no one said anything. the whole time i was, like, i can do this. everyone is behind me. everyone is down with it. when it happened everyone said i didn't expect that to work. >> it's working, at 23 ed has sold more than 24 million singles and albums. spotifyied named him the biggest artist last year. but just five years ago he couldn't get a recording contract. what were the record labels saying to you in the beginning? >> you should have seen me back then. that's the thing. it's good looking back now, it's just like the beatles. everyone turned them down. i wasn't fat i was just round and shiny. >> i read one label said you should dye your hair. >> that was an

mary johnny cash, he went through everybody he thought he owed a debt to. it was pretty cool. >>> coming up the controversy over a new novel from harper lee.ngbird" capable of making a decision to publish the book. for some your >>> good morning, everyone i'm nicole brewer. lets check that forecast feeling a little bit better this morning, right carol. >> yes you can feel lot better but we will take this. we have he got temperatures approaching the the freezing mark, you can see though a few clouds looking at center city philadelphia but it is dry out there dry at the shore with some clouds as well in ocean city and quiet looking boardwalk. our temperatures today will be warming up by noon, 36 degrees by 3:00 p.m. we will fine these temperatures getting in the 40's, that would be nice and that is where we should this be time of the year. storm scan three nothing happening in our area we have got some clouds and also whatever is happening there is not making to it ground but we will be watching for some wet weather, that comes primarily, on monday for us though. temperature right now 29 at the airport. twenty-five in trenton. twenty-six in