during the late 19th century, nassau had become a popular tourist resort. most visitors to the island spent their time at picturesque sites, but homer ignored the tourist life around him, concentrating instead on native activities, particularly sponge and turtle fishing. in these works, homer plays off the elements of dark-skinned fishermen, white sails, and green-blue water. working from bare, white paper to dark washes of color, he establishes vivid ranges of tonal contrasts. his brushwork is free and swift, rhythmic and expressive. certain subjects preoccupied homer for long periods. hurricanes fascinated him. he dramatically illustrated the energy of the wind in a watercolor of 1898, and then, a year later, hauntingly portrayed the wreckage of a boat and figure washed ashore. another subject that occupied him was sharks. a watercolor of shark fishing was the basis for a pictorial narrative dealing with the ambiguous relationship between man and the forces of nature. this theme culminated in the great oil painting known as the gulf stream, seen on his ea

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nassau workers will no longer be allowed to host visits from their counterparts and they cannot holdhem and the u.s. relies on the shuttle program to get supplies from the international spacing station and they are activities will be unaffected. you can get anybody a chance to go where they want to go. >> we are talking about the distracted driving and it is a chance of distracted driving awareness month and brian flores is trying to get the word out and not to become one of those people who have an unfortunate incident. let's look apt the toll plaza, it is light, it will not stay this way for long but if you like to get up early before everybody else does, it is getting heavy here. we are moving along well and looking at the san jose area via the map system, it is all green and if you watch the show, you can see it is mostly red and yellow and this morning, the traffic does look good as you drive through, let's go to steve. >> room hockey game, baseball game and did i tell you it this is good time for or what if well yesterday we had some rain and santa rosa is deal with some fog ou

and if you love the eastern caribbean, you can see beautiful spots like nassau and st.d the price, you can't beat it. $449 for seven days. that's -- >> $449? >> amazing. >> is that for food and everything? >> yes, $65 a day for this cruise. we should be on it, right? >> all right. so you say let's head north to atlantic, canada. >> this is a lesser known -- charming. lesser known destination. we're talking about nova scotia in atlantic, canada. here you can go out and do wonderful outdoor adventure activities, whether you want to do whale watching or kayaking. you are going to love this. because nova scotia boasts more pubs per capita than anywhere else in the world. so, hello, i know we're loving this. >> long winters there in nova scotia. >> exactly. >> it is charming. there is a wine region of nova scotia, a mini napa valley. you can have your beer, your wine, i suggest doing the whale watching first. and you can stay at the smuggler's cove inn. charming, cozy, right on the water, $99 and up. we're just under $100 there. >> great. the dominican republic, one of my fa

. >>> this morning marks the start of a really busy week for nassau and astronauts on the internationalpace station. just this morning the crew used the station's robotic arm to capture a capsule loaded with supplies. a space x rocket launched on thursday delivered the goods. no easter baskets on board, however. now scientists on the ground and astronauts must prepare for a spacewalk on wednesday. astronauts need to fix a broken backup compute they're controls things like the external cooling system. >>> a big deal this morning for san francisco-based air b&b is now valued amount $10 billion. that's more than some hotel chains like hyatt and puts the company in the upper echelon of other silicon valley start-ups. abc news reporter lindsey janice talks with two families who were on to air b&b from the start. >> think run a suite and studio apartment in a philadelphia home post natal of the year. >> income we get from renting out the unit pays the mortgage it's reliable and significant source of income for us. >> and. >> and they are just one of thoses of families renting out space. our a

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. >> but, look, i used to go see you when you came to the nassau coliseum. i went every year to see the globetrotters. the fans, all races, all background, everybody came to see the globetrotters. i look at this as an anomaly. the issue here is they couldn't takeaway the team or force this guy to sell, but three quarters of the owners, if they unite, they can force him to sell. do you want to see that to happen? i think that would be best for basketball, don't you think? >> it is best for basketball and i like the commissioner, i know what he has done so far i think it's right on. and i think the players like it also and i think the league will be better. >> tim, your thoughts on all this? >> today, sean was more about adam silver it was not about donald sterling. today was about adam silver and his leadership. he showed tremendous leadership by taking hold of this situation and going with the lifetime ban. he's going to be universally lauded for the decision. the question though, becomes, in this world of 24/7/365 media why did it take an audiotape when the

according to the mta and "the new york times," that's nassau, suffolk, on long island and the countiesge, putnam and duchess. anything north of that is upstate. if you look at those downstate suburbs, you can see the political transition taking place with the exception of rockland county, which is solidly democratic, the rest of them are pretty evenly divided. suffolk county is almost an exact 50/50 split. despite being upstate albany, democrats outnumber republicans 2-1. more like new york city than its upstate neighbor. like the political divide there's a demographic divide between upstate and downstate. according to the study of census data, 7% african-american, 2% asian. in their study they included dutchess and orange county as upstate. 45% white, 18% african-american, 25% hispanic and 10% asian. not everyone believes the two regions can even coexist. just like a lot of big states there's a movement under way in new york to split the city and its suburbs from the rest of new york. basically another attempt for republicans to find some sort of power. they would rename these states

your "yeezus" tour just finished on sunday night at nassau colosseum, i was there.was incredible. >> thank you very much. >> seth: i have to -- are you excited that it's over, are you relieved? i mean, how did you feel the tour went? >> i thought it went really good. i mean, it's kind of -- you know, it's sad when it's over, because you put so much into it and so many people are really excited to see it. and you know, it's fun to be able to express something that you created. >> seth: well i -- you seem to be in a great mood. you seem to -- you really did. i mean, because obviously you take your music very seriously but you also had a lot of fun with the audience that night. you know, you were signing autographs, as people were putting stuff on the stage and you seemed seemed to be having, like, a lot of fun. now, the first half i couldn't tell how much fun you were having, because you wear a mask for, like, 90 minutes. [ laughter ] now, even i was like feeling claustrophobic because of the mask. like, how hot is it in the mask? >> i mean, the mask is just -- it's g

they got into a brawl yesterday during their annual hockey charity game at nassau coliseum on long islanding the second period, and it took the referees a long time to get things under control. the police won, 8-5, the game that is. >> exactly. >> that was charity game. >> i know. >> okay. >>> for more than 50 years the cia kept a literary secret. this morning how they used a classic novel to subvert the soviet union. margaret brennan is in washington with a look at how pop culture became a cold war weapon. good morning. >> good morning to you. the cold war was a class of ideology as well as much an empire and 130 new documents the agency adopted some unusual tactics to infiltrate the soviet union including overtly publishing literary works like dr. zhivago. it tells the story of jir iowa zhivago, a poet white house was squashed in 1917 which help bring the russians to power. in real life the kremlin banish it. it was quietly published and districted as band propaganda. it explains their intent. we have the opportunity to leave soviet citizens wonder what is wrong with their government wh

this bench clearing fight broke out last night at the nassau coliseum on new york's long island t happened between teams from new york city's police and fire departments. reports say it began when game officials tried to break up a fight on the ice. it escalated in minutes. the game was delayed. several players had to be ejected. officials from both departments not yet commented on the brawl. patti ann: oscar pistorius taking the stand today in his own defense at "the blade runner" murder trial. the double amputee olympic athlete apologized to reeva steinkamp's family and went on to explain what he says happened the night he shot and killed her. prosecutors tried to paint pistorius as a hothead, obsessed with guns, who killed steenkamp after an argument but the defense claims he shot her by accident, thinking she was an intruder. joining us now, heather hanson, a trial attorney and jonna spilbor, a criminal defense attorney. thank you both so much for joining us. heather, it is all very interesting the stuff he was saying in court this morning but none of answered questions relevant to his

we are in nassau county on long island.ed around 3:00 o'clock yesterday afternoon. police got a call via skype from a man who claimed that he had killed his mother and brother here in long beach. ambulances, fire trucks, swat team mebs and other officers responded. the problem, it was all a hoax. what really happened is that the caller had been playing the on-line video game "call of duty" and lost. to exact revenge on the winner, the loser called police and gave out the winner's address to try to get as many police officers to show up at his home. mission accomplished. we spoke to the winner's older brother. >> saw something like this on tv a couple months ago. now that it happened to me, what the -- i didn't know how to react to that. it's crazy. >> reporter: this prank caller could be in some serious trouble. he not only faces charges for falsely reporting an incident, but police say he could also be on the hook for about $100,000. that's approximately what it cost to respond to a call that turned out to be bogus. that i