i just wanted to ask you if any of you smoke newport cigarettes. there is a charter in the united nations and by the general assembly and millennium declaration. i will leave a copy for you if you are interested. >> thank you. next speaker? good afternoon, president chiu and supervisors. i know we had a wonderful time of celebration with asian pacific heritage month. i have some sad news to deliver this afternoon. a very personal friend, a very fine city folks, business owner in memory of tony keng. where it all began and in the beginning. many of you are aware that advertising was established back in 1990. tony king was ahead of his time even before the u.s. census of 1990 that informed us about americanation demographics in collaboration with the founders opened the advertising agency partnering with companies to target the asian american consumers who would meet for hours and conduct business in hotel lob easy -- lobbies across the city. corporate america was about to talk to these firms and think about their mainstream background. jay was out h

the fancy pants seacoast along newport.ots of ships and a jazz festival and air show, planes and ships. there are kennedys, kennedys and ships. weddings, kennedys and weddings! jack and jackie got married in newport in 1953. more recently the founder of facebook got hitched last summer, no, not mark zuckerberg, one of the other founders you don't actually know even after watching the social network. the state of rhode island markets itself as a destination marriage state that your aunt phyllis doesn't need to schlep all the way to aruba to watch you get married on the ocean, she can go to rhode island on i-95. today, the governor saw to it that marriage includes every one including same sex couples. governor chafee signed the bill into law, didn't even wait for it to get to his office, signed it on the state steps. rhode island becomes the 10th state in the country to have legal marriage for all couples. the very last state to do it in new england. look at that sea of yellow in the northeast. delaware might be next. the bil

items 5 and 6 allow us to authorize newport revenue bonds and allow us to on an interim basis utilize the city's commercial paper program. and item 6 is an appropriation ordinance of 34.7 million of which 25.3 is new rev nigh bond funds is 9.4 is reallocation. these sources are intended for two purposes. face 2 of the cruise terminal and northern waterfront historic pier projects. the reason for bringing these items now is in advance of having the pos and sale documents is to keep the cruise terminal schedule so we can award big contracts. so, that is the purpose. we'll be back in the fall with the request for sale. just a bit about the facility. as you know, it was completed. phase 1 was completed february 28 of this year. the event authority is using the facility now as the america's cup village and will do so until october 1st. phase 2 of the project consists of building out all the maritime improvement, the park, northeast wharf tip, ballards provisioning et cetera to make it a functioning cruise ship terminal which is its primary purpose and then we'll begin to see about 200,000

near newport beach country club.he car veered off the road and struck a tree of the center divider. police said the car was going so fast that the impact ripped the vehicle in half, throwing the driver and all four passengers of the car. four victims died immediately. a fifth person was taken to the hospital in critical condition later died. officers say speed and other factors, including whether alcohol was involved still under investigation. >> firefighters successfully lifted a horse out of a 25 ft. well after the animal had fallen in and struggled to swim. the horse named buddy fell in the well at ranch near san raphael. the well had about 20 ft. of water and when fire crews arrived, but he was treading water. fire crews filled the well water to help or slow to. they say, it appeared but he had stepped onto a board covering the well and then fell through. the collective team of sheriff's deputies, fire officials and at more risk slipping a couple of fire hoses underneath buddy for support. a couple of hours later

in newport, rhode island, has actually climbed 10 inches. so when the next hurricane of 1938 comes, or perhaps even a bigger one, as our current experience of storms would seem to suggest is possible, when that bigger storm comes, it's going to be driving a higher ocean against the shore. and probably not just 10 inches higher, because storm surge will stack that 10-inch increase as it crashes against our rhode island shores. and that can be a game changer. and states like rhode island have to do a lot of work to reconfigure where the so-called velocity zones are, where it is safe to build or not safe to build, what is actually now vulnerable as a 100-year flood or a 500-year flood as things change along our coasts. so that's something that is a little bit hard to debate. it's actually a measurement. it's a measurement of 10 inches on a tide gauge. this is not some theory. this is what has happened. and that water lying out there 10 inches higher is a terrific risk to our state and something that we have to prepare for. and given the way sta

look at the coast, i have clients around the country, i had a client trying to acquire a house 92 in newport beach. he is having to put in offers above market he has chinese buyers coming in with cash deals. neil: they are more of ex option -- exception than rule. >> we have the same thing in new york, we have people, with what to expect, how to win that bid, because there is no supply. neil: you are in different league. thank you very much. scott to you as well. don't blame me, how president might use a press conference today to bash republicans on sequesation that creates more frustration for democrats too. if this is what happens with -- cuts think about it what happens when we get major cuts if we ever get major cuts. ♪ [ lighter flicking ] [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where giving up isn't who you are. ♪ this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? tal to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest p

five people are dead after a fiery car crash in orange county that happened yesterday evening in newport beach. investigators say the car veered off the road, slammed into a tree, split in half and caught on fire the debris could be seen scattered across the road and a firefighters called this one of the worst he has seen in 30 years the. >> and news from passengers caught on a cruise ship that caught on fire. the first passengers are in the air on the way home to the united states. katie marzullo? >> grandeur of the seas passengers have been boarding flights for an hour and royal caribbean cruise lines flying them to baltimore. that is the first leg of the trip home. we have new images of the ship this morning, caution tape with fire hoses on the ground, also some smoke damage on the wall and the passenger what appears to be sick. they said no passengers were seriously hurt in the fire but some did fall ill and some say what they saw seemed worse than what is being portrayed by the cruise line and they describe hearing explosions and seeing fireballs shooting from the ship. they say at

look at the coast, i have clients around the country, i had a client trying to acquire a house 92 in newport beach. he is having to put in offers above market he has chinese buyers coming in with cash deals. neil: they are more of ex option -- exception than rule. >> we have the same thing in new york, we have people, with what to expect, how to win that bid, because there is no supply. neil: you are in different league. thank you very much. scott to you as well. don't blame me, how president might use a press conference today to bash republicans on sequestration that creates more frustration for democrats too. if this is what happens with -- cuts think about it what happens when we get major cuts if we ever get major cuts. way. for seeing what cash is coming in and going out... so you can understand every angle of your cash flow- last week, this month, and even next year. for seeing your business's cash flow like never before, introducing cash flow insight powered by pnc cfo. a suite of online tools that lets you turn insight into action. >> republicans saying sequester is terrible, it will

tony -- >> certainly mohamed, but he is well placed in newport beach. i would suggest that bernanke has a chance to succeed himself and there are likely successors. i would like to see a fed chairman that begins to place an emphasis on savings and savers as opposed to wall street and borrowers. any candidate that fulfills that potential would be a good candidate. >> i think ups is putting a 20% stake. >> thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> tim cook says he has got a couple of game changers up his sleeve but what would you want apple to create next? a watch? maybe a car? how about a housekeeper robot like rosie from the jetsons. >> you can tweet us. and we will be digging into china's sweet and sour deal. [ male announcer ] at his current pace, bob will retire when he's 153, which would be fine if bob were a vampire. but he's not. ♪ he's an architect with two kids and a mortgage. luckily, he found someone who gave him a fresh perspective on his portfolio. and with some planning and effort, hopefully bob can retire at a more appropriate age. it's not

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the crash happened monday in newport beach. orange county sheriff's department says the car hit a tree, split in half, then caught fire. four of the victims were 17 years old. the other just 16. all were students in the irvine unified school district. >>> san ramon man is nursing a sore back and scratches after a tree fell on top of him. rick moman and his wife were working around the yard when the tree, four stories tall, came toppling down. he was trapped under the top branches of the tree and took him a couple of minutes to wiggle his way out. the tree did cause extensive damage to the house, which now they're repairing to sell. >> at least everyone is okay there. >> that's the good news. >>> taking a look at our wednesday forecast. we're getting ready for some heat to kick in, in the bay area. >> right. ta's going to crank around here, before you know t marla and laura, good morning to you. good morning to you at home. we'll start with the clearest shot we have, san francisco. mostly cloudy conditions in the south bay. thos

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uss newports on the news. we went up and down the coast and shut things. -- shot things. there was a time -- the tour at blue -- turret blew up, second turet. 20 people died. what amazed me is that they never -- i don't think to the state they've really given a good explanation that to this day they've really given a good explanation. ammunition.tive they never really investigated it. i was surprised. they should have. ron, calling us about his experience not too far away from the washington monument. the vietnam veterans memorial. another perspective shot as people gather to look at it and in some cases you can see on your screen that people are leaving mementos are making etchings from the law. -- making etching from thew all -- the wall. president obama heads to arlington for the reef laying ceremony, rush the wreathlaying ceremony, would she can watch on c-span. on c-span.u can wash the event will start about 11:00 this morning with the president and others in attendance. west virginia. good morning. caller: good morning. my thoughts are pretty sad today. 2 brother de

norfolk naval station and the neighboring newport news shipyard, where they build aircraft carriers, they're threatened by storm surges and sea level rise. so i have come to the floor now, oh, three or four times to keep raising these different issues. tonight i'm talking about national security. but we also saw just terrible tornadoes in oklahoma. horrible. and i send my condolences to the people who lost loved ones. this is climate change. this is climate change. we were warned about extreme weather, extreme weather. not just hot weather but extreme weather. and when i had my hearings, when i had the gavel years ago -- it's been awhile -- the scientists all agreed what we'd start to see is extreme weather. and people looked althoug at onr and said, what do you mean? you mean it's going to get hot? yeah, it's going to get hot, but you're also going to have snow in the summer in some places, you're going to have terrible storms, you're going to have tornadoes and all the rest. so we need to protect our peop people. that's our number-one obligati obligation. and we have to deal with t

they took summers in cooperstown, n.y., and in newport. molly arthur was a little bit term i would not use the pedestrian, but she was just not interested. host: last question on the arthur administration, on mary arthur, the sister, she had a very strong opinion on women's suffrage. how influential was she in this non-official white house hostess role? guest: it really showed us that the country had come to expect a female presence, whether it was a wife, sister, daughter. really walk the fine line. she made public appearances, sometimes on around, sometimes only with him. was kind oflmost ambivalent about how public a role she should take. her support of the anti suffrage amendment -- movement occurred after the white house. there was some coverage of it. i will add that she was also a great advocate of civil rights. in her home in albany, she not only welcomed as a dinner guest but as an overnight guest and booker t. washington. host: we have 12 minutes left. as arthur finishes three years, lucretia is establishing herself as a widow an

and frank newport said he has already made changes in their ongoing sampling and their testing furtheror the election to come. specifically the head of gallup told me that they have changed the way they ask people about their race. they used to do it following the wording of the census bureau and think maybe that is not getting the best results. they have changed that. they have changed how they are waiting cell phones and land lines in their samples to get the people they want. >> frank had e-mailed us after he talked to you, i guess, and we great deal appreciate that. what did he say went wrong when you talked to him? because what we found is a lot of the established polling outfits didn't get it as well as people -- like pppp, for instance. that sort of the more established polsters looked down their noses at. what did frank say gallup got wrong and you're talking about how he is going to fix it? gallup is reluctant to make changes to their formula to the wording of their questions because one of the reasons that we use it all the time, that you used it all the time, is that they ha

southern california, some tough breaks, an annual report found that santa monica beach and wage beach in newportater quality. that is our west coast minute. dennis: memorial day kicking of summer travel. we will be no holiday. new report from the center for economic and policy research says 23 percent of american workers have no paid vacation days. twenty-one companies studied in reportedly was shot dead, canada , japan, 16 countries in 3 europe, the u.s. is the only advanced economy that does not require employers to provide paid vacation. too many rules. cheryl: i should have been born in france. thirteen weeks a year vacation. thirteen weeks. i'd take it. dennis: enforced by law. cheryl: yes. part of it is law. dennis: if your employers are giving you paid vacation, quick and find a better employer. just a thought. cheryl: markets were down 27. our stocks, first trust economists. he will tell lori and ashley exactly why. dennis: and back now to tell yo bachmann dennis had hackers are targeting our nation's energy providers. iran in the cyber threat coming up. ♪ ♪ cheryl: t gif. happy friday b

they talk about the markets, they look at the financials, tech, and energy are doing because ted of newporting record in the market. today, pulling back, near bank of america, dow to the town, 1.4%, jpmorgan as well. think of earnings season, majority of ompanies doing well with earnings per share, revenue light in some cases because of the energy or materials and the like, but over the last four weeks, this group has done well, up between, let's say 2-4% relatively with the exception of goldman sachs, to the downside. people hold these in their portfolios, back to you. dennis: thanks, nicole. cheryl: at 5 p.m. eastern time, melissa francis has an interview with the jpmorgan co-coo and top lieutenant to jamie dimon who just stepped down, reasons for leaving, and what's it like to be in the inner circle? don't miss that coming up on "money" with melissa francis. depp den money with charles pain, this hour, was a purveyor of food porn, whole foods, charles? >> well, again, i got to tell you, maybe we're not -- maybe people gave up on porn, certainly the food porn stock is down, but it's to th

they took summers in cooperstown, new york, and newport. molly arthur was a little bit more -- i would ghot use the word pedestrian -- would not use the word pedestrian but she was not interested in being stylish. host: last question on the arthur administration. and mary arthur mcelroy, the sister, she had a very strong opinion against women suffrage. how influential was she in this nonofficial white house hostess role? guest: a very interesting situation. because it really showed us that the country had come to expect a female presence. whether it was a wife or a sister or a daughter. and she was really walked a fine line. because she didn't -- she took -- she made public appearances. sometimes on her own. but then sometimes only with him. and so -- and i think he almost kind of was am bitch lent about how public of role she should take. her support of the anti-suffrage movement occurred, however, after she left the white house. so while there was some press coverage of it, it wasn't widely known. i will add, though, that she was also a g

. >> absolutely let's get to the top five we begin in newport, rhode island, historic, famous. >> totallysland, it's a deepwater harbor so it tracts yachtsman and with the yachtsmen come the socialites, fine dining, incredible shopping so you have to love newport. >> it's not purely fancy high end. >> no, it definitely isn't. it's a wonderful place to go with the family, the cliffwalk, the historic mansions. it has the sense of history you want to explore. >> number four, sag harbor, new york, a place i was in saturday, such a beautiful, little town. >> a great place to be for dinner over the weekend. it's a world away from manhattan, only two hours from new york city but it's such a charming and quaint village. it has a unique main street with restaurants and shops and their iconic windmill and a lot of community pride, memorial day parades, at christmastime they do a tree light, santa comes in on a fire truck so this lovely sense of community there. >> legend gear american hotel and with two little kids every ice cream joint i can tell you in that town as well. number three, sanibel isl

total return fund, so that attracts more and more investors and we trust our money to our team in newporthe insurance side, what do you expect to happen to rates now? >> well, i think rates certainly continue to rise, in particular in the relevant sectors in the commercial business in the u.s. and australia, but also still in france and maybe in uk. it's a bit less pronounced at the moment. and the retail segment, germany still had backlog in rates, needed rate increases, and also france. so, there we still see that rate increase is coming through. and other market, it's now much more our own performance in service and underwriting and with selection to get to better numbers, which we did very well in recent quarters. >> thank you very much for joining us. dieter wemmer, ceo of allianz, joining us first here on cnbc. >>> all right, we had another record day for u.s. markets yesterday. let's bring you up to speed with where we stand with futures right now. we are called lower at the open. we were at this time yesterday, but it changed as you can see. we're currently some, what, 80 points b

so they took summers in new york and newport. and probably arthur was -- i wouldn't use the word pedestrian, but she was just -- she was not interested. >> mary had a very strong opinion against women's suffrage. how influential was she in this nonofficial white house hopeful? >> it's a very interesting situation because it really showed us that the country had come to expect a presence, whether it was a wife or sister or daughter red and she really walked ein line. she made public appearances, sometimes on her own, sometimes only with him. i think he almost was ambivalent about how public of a role she should take. the anti-suffrage movement occurred after the white house. i will add that she was also a great advocate of civil rights. and in her home in albany, she not only had a dinner guest, but an overnight guest in washington. >> we have 12 minutes left. as the administration finishes out its three years, lucretia garfield is establishing herself as a widow and enormously popular first lady. how does she do that? >> we saw a

. >>> un auto chocó con un árbol en newport y las 5 víctimas a bordo murieron, 4 en la escena y una ens con la actividad de tormentas que hay hasta en chicago y hoy un día de lluvias con 70% de la misma probabilidad y si vamos a méxico, tenemos una baja presión que puede llegar como ciclón moviéndose al norte y posiblemente el gobierno mexicano ya esté emitiendo avisos porque se mueve al norte así que la costa sur, atenta! >>> nosotros estamos eseperando las temperaturas bordeando los 90°. adelante anita! >>> vamos con orlando, qué nos traes hoy? >>> una historia detrás de la noticia y ya saben en la fiesta se apareció este jugador y bueno, incvestigamos cómo se realizó el sueño y luego tendremos ideas de cómo hacer real los sueños. (hablando en inglés) (mÚsica). >>> con este video, le pidió a la superestrella que fuera su pareja en el baile del prom. >>> así dilia, maría belén y otras amigas, se empeñaron en hacer real el sueño. >>> maría fue la primera en enterarse. >>> organizando me enteré que una de las alumnas había mandado esta petición. dilia, dio la orden de buscarlo por cielo

our last big reunion, in fact the only big reason we've ever had would be this may in newport, where the reprise of the nixon welcome home party was going to take place and we are all going to go up there. there's going to be an accounting. the countenance what if we time to pay back over time the gratitude of the nation, the gratitude we feel to the nation? because we all kind of took a vow that we would continue to march. we try to do something with our lives that would enable better days ahead. there is no organization and reports. it is just an individual circumstance and we look forward to hearing how people come and just having them share their stories because we all thought that kind of commitment. i should comment after the party in 1973, or nixon open up the whole white house, in the residential portion of the white house was hoping. fruit of the loom. keep going around in the lincoln bedroom a little pain it bathroom thing where churchill used to say. the interesting thing was six months -- not six months, nine months after the party at the white house, 50 children were bor

larry is waiting from newport news, virginia.arry, you were on with the "huffington post" jen bendery. caller: hello? host: larry, go ahead. larry, are you there you g? caller: yes, i am here. i just wanted to say that i think the lady is totally right. people are not interested in this. we want to see -- you know, this witchhunt after obama, just one scandal after another, if nobody -- nobody is interested in that. we want to get the minimum wage raised up, we want to get the full congress, republicans and democrats, back to the job of creating jobs and pushing the economy and getting them to work together. getting them to work together. thisnk the only thing is is good because the republicans in congress and lot of problems in 2014. we want to get the people into government who are willing to work together and get this economy where it is supposed to be. host: it is always nice when someone says i am right on something. i do agree that some people just do not want to spend their days wondering what is in to the irs. the irs sho

watching as a newport virginia. hi. you are on. welcome. >> i. how are you doing? i would like to know more about julia. i understand that her family, can you talk more about her family? >> thank you. very briefly because we are going to spend more time with and a little later. give us a quick synopsis. >> sure. julia's parents came to st. louis in 1816. and to establish their family in the city of st. louis and then the country home at white haven where she grew up and most of her summers and then you're around. she had four older brothers and two younger sisters. so it was a rather large family. they considered themselves southerners. and mr. father did. and they were slave holding family. there were as many as 30 slaves caramel and utilized later at white haven. >> and this kirk -- caused great tension. >> as a matter of fact, when ulysses and julia were married in this city of st. louis, none of the grants attended the wedding. reportedly because they did not approve of ulysses marrying into a slave holding family placed it is father actually live in the white

our last big reunion, in fact the only big reason we've ever had would be this may in newport, where the reprise of the nixon welcome home party was going to take place and we are all going to go up there. there's going to be an accounting. the countenance what if we time to pay back over time the gratitude of the nation, the gratitude we feel to the nation? because we all kind of took a vow that we would continue to march. we try to do something with our lives that would enable better days ahead. there is no organization and reports. it is just an individual circumstance and we look forward to hearing how people come and just having them share their stories because we all thought that kind of commitment. i should comment after the party in 1973, or nixon open up the whole white house, in the residential portion of the white house was hoping. fruit of the loom. keep going around in the lincoln bedroom a little pain it bathroom thing where churchill used to say. the interesting thing was six months -- not six months, nine months after the party at the white house, 50 children were bor

. >> bill calling from newport richie florida. what do you say? >> caller: good morning.ow is everybody? >> bill: good. what's up >> caller: my question is everything he has been saying about the globalization, are we building some sort of a bubble that's going to explore worldwide? >> bill: good point. good question >> caller: like the housing bubble from 2006. >> bill: uh-huh. what do you think, derek? thanks, bill, for the question. >> the difficulty with all bubbles they can be impossible to predict. >> this looks like a big bubble that might burst? >> what in particular? >> bill: in terms of globalization, all of this emphasis on the global economy, you know. i don't know how it goes. >> globalization is good for us in a lot of ways. like i was saying earlier, between today sand the 1900, the turn turn of that century the share of american spending american family spending going to food and clothes has shrunk tremendously. we used to spend something like 40% of our income on food and clothes. >> that's the average family. now, it's closer to 15 or 17%. globalization

our last big reunion, in fact the only big reason we've ever had would be this may in newport, wherehe reprise of the nixon welcome home party was going to take place and we are all going to go up there. there's going to be an accounting. the countenance what if we time to pay back over time the gratitude of the nation, the gratitude we feel to the nation? because we all kind of took a vow that we would continue to march. we try to do something with our lives that would enable better days ahead. there is no organization and reports. it is just an individual circumstance and we look forward to hearing how people come and just having them share their stories because we all thought that kind of commitment. i should comment after the party in 1973, or nixon open up the whole white house, in the residential portion of the white house was hoping. fruit of the loom. keep going around in the lincoln bedroom a little pain it bathroom thing where churchill used to say. the interesting thing was six months -- not six months, nine months after the party at the white house, 50 children were born

fleet seminar program were at different naval bases around the country they simulate what we do in newport with a seminar and instructor in the classroom so we have this interaction. the vast majority of the students, because it is a wire for everyone to get promoted, a few years ago if you were in a critical position and you were a pilot, your commanding officer could say i need joe smith. you could get a military education. the navy did that so often that they called them labor babies. congress that enough. they have to get their education. then everyone was pushed through the pipeline very ugly and there was a lot of pressure on us to figure out a way to get them through more quickly. this is when a lot of the online distance education programs were started. i am not going out on a limb to say that the air force clearly won the battle for who can get the simplest program to get these people through. it was basically a program where you got it right. that is -- that occurs less so now. we have built some rigor into the program and the business education program is actually quite good. th

. >> i'm a corporate litigator from newport, rhode island.ere. >> you have real jobs and you have decided to be part of this reality show where the objective is to, what, get the most fish, hook the biggest fish? >> there were different requirements for each of the challenges we had. sometimes it was the biggest fish. sometimes it was the smallest issue. sometimes it was the most fish. >> that's cold-blooded. go out and catch the smallest fish. sometimes they're all that big but you need something minimum size. >> it's not something i would do at home. at the same time it made for a great competition. >> it did. >> when the producer said, okay, fellows, and gals because you have some gals on the show as well, we want you fishing on a zip line. did you think, you've got to be kidding me. >> i was excited about that one. it looked like fun right from the outset. >> okay. you do it with a net? >> that's correct. >> crazy. why did you decide to do this? >> tell you the truth, it was over a glass of wine. >> just one? >> maybe more than one. it wa

newport richie, florida, hello. caller: thank you for this topic. have been thinking about it for the last couple of weeks. i saw peter do a segment with melanie phillips on the books that she wrote. one of the books that she wrote -- forgive me, i did not write- ups down, but she talked about this at length and how it works here in america, but mostly in the u.k.. my mother has three degrees of. i am in my 50's. followingngle child her through that process. was she a single mom? caller: she was. my parents divorced when i was about five. my grandparents had a big hand in helping to raise me. basically i would see her about six months for every year and i would spend the rest of the year with my father. he was highly educated. he was on his fourth marriage and never had any other children. i am an only child whose parents were married a total of eight times. my kids say that i should write a book. i have been married to the same man for 35 years. we have three college-educated children. i have been babysitting for my grandson and am very concerned a

they took summers in cooperstown, n.y., and in newport.olly arthur was a little bit more, i would not use the term pedestrian, but she was just not interested. host: last question on the arthur administration, on mary arthur, the sister, she had a very strong opinion on women's suffrage. how influential was she in this non-official white house hostess role? guest: it really showed us that the country had come to expect a female presence, whether it was a wife, sister, daughter. she really walk the fine line. she made public appearances, sometimes on around, sometimes only with him. i think he almost was kind of ambivalent about how public a role she should take. her support of the anti-suffrage movement occurred after the white house. there was some coverage of it. i will add that she was also a great advocate of civil rights. in her home in albany, she not only welcomed as a dinner guest but as an overnight guest and booker t. washington. host: we have 12 minutes left. as arthur finishes three years, lucretia is establishing herself as a

let's get to great destinations that you found, starting off right here in the northeast, beautiful newport, and where can you find the deals? >> it's one of the prettiest towns in america, peaceful harbor towns. we like 41 north, classic new england hotel on the outside, modern on the inside. they have a really good deal at the moment between sunday and thursday, $229 a night, and it's their harbor tour package, so that includes a 30-minute yacht tour of the harbor. >> lots of great attractions there as well, beautiful homes. >> exactly. got to do a tour of the gilded age mansions and lots of sailing, obviously. >> second destination, lanai, hawaii. we're going to hawaii about a week or so. why lanai? >> lanai is the smallest and most uninhabited island. you can fly to maui or fly to honolulu. there's prices from $249 a night at the four seasons. >> for the four seasons, that's amazing. >> stunning property. and lanai used to be, until fairly recently, covered with pine apple plantations. offroading and hiking. >> a lot of people may think caribbean may be a little risky to book. especiall

police say that four of the victims were thrown from a car that struck a tree in newport beach, californiamonday evening. the impact split the car in half and the wreckage caught fire. the cause of the accident is under investigation. >>> the pilot of u.s. air force f-15 fighter jets that crashed into the pacific ocean off japan this morning has survived. officials say the pilot ejected when the plane developed trouble and was able to contact rescue teams. >>> asledge d trey von martin shooter, george zimmerman will not be in court today. the judge will consider a number of motions whether the jury can suspension and alleged marijuana use. >>> and video of a dramatic baby rescue in china is stirring emotions around the world. the newborn boy was lodged in a sewer pipe. we should warn you, this video is very disturbing. >> reporter: residents in an apartment building in jinghua called firefighters. after hearing the baby crying in a fourth-floor bathroom. firefighters' attempt to pull the baby out of the pipe failed. they cut the pipe with the baby still inside and took him to a local hospi

tide gauges in newport, rhode island, show an increase in average sea level of nearly 10 inches since 1930. that is a big deal. when we in rhode island think about how devastating the great hurricane of 1938 was to our shores and what more would now befall us with ten more inches of sea for such a storm to throw at our shores. at these tide gauges, measurements show not only that sea level is rising but the rate of sea level rise is increasing, which matches reports that since 1990, sea level has been rising faster than the rate predicted by the intergovernmental panel on climate change. i've said before we will continue to take advantage of the oceans bounty, as we should. we will trade, we will fish and we will sail. we will extract fuel and harness the wind. we will work our oceans, navies and cruise ships, sailboats and super tankers will plow their surface. we cannot undo this part of our relationship with the sea. what we can change is what we do in return. we can for the first time become takers -- become not just takers but caretakers of our oceans. we are beginning to take so