i do have to acknowledge that someone in the front row is a huge cheerleader of yours, paul mason of the mayor's office was actually erika's prom date in high school. so i know she has huge roots back here in san francisco. we're so lucky to have you in our community. thank you for inspiring our community. we really hope other neighbors in san francisco will take on the responsibility in learning how to take care of themself so they can better help in emergencies. so thank you for all that you do. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much supervisor tang and the entire board of supervisors. your support means so much. i appreciate being highlighted among the many people that are being honored today but i really want to take a moment to highlight the nork program itself. the nork program builds empowerment. i'm in people's living rooms to large halls to talk about the preparedness. it's very engaging and powerful for me to be able to travel all over the city where i was born and raised and lead this program. i'm really just a shepherd of something that's bigger than myself and to be

george mason and paul hewitt up in brooklyn, another close one, mason down four, under three to go. fordham holds on. >>> caps/rangers at verizon center. alex ovechkin scores his 45th goal of the season and becomes only the fifth player to score 45 or more in seven seasons, incredible. caps fall 3-1. >>> check out nats pitcher gio gonzalez trying to spice up spring training with his brand of humor. >> i mean right now we have max. right now we've been getting it right. i mean max for sure. so far right now it's max. >> guys, back up to you. >> what? if you look at the right, max scherzer is cracking up because he put gonzalez up to it. our staff figured out this is from some movie called super troopers where he gets pull over and the cop says meow, i'd like to see your license, blah, blah, blah, wasn't a great movie. >> a movie he hadn't seen. >> i don't get it either. >> because max signed the big contract. >> we know who max scherzer is. >> i wouldn't go too deep in this. >> you know what? my american u eagles had a great year, so (mom) when our little girl was born we got a subar

. >>> tough year for paul hewitt and george mason.s is shocka smart basketball swarming george mason and they force the steal and mo allen cox says look out below and the seas parted. george mason ends at 9 and 21. check this out. we got highlights. division three playoffs, catholic university and this is corey stanford doing work in the low post with 22 points and 13 boards and randolph making number one seed in the division 3 playoffs and marcus badger there and they get the win 79- 65 and big kudos to hall's club doing northeast proud they won 23 games this season. to the ladies, maryland women taking on northwest and sluggish first half. until kiara leslie here. in mid air. how about that? terps in the half on a 13-3 run and they never look back. lauren minsy takes that and maryland pulls away 74-64 and they will play in the finals tomorrow in the big 10 championship. all right. hockey. alex ovenchin in the lineup. 44th in the season and that's 6 better than the closest guy. alex ovenchin. will win the mvp and the caps trying to c

. -- the george mason men have a new basketball coach. he replaces paul hewitt. y. dave paulsen is the new man at mason. the nationals open up the regular season one week from tonight. against the cardinals, ryan zimmerman played well tonight. he got the r.b.i., but the cardinals scored six straight, beating the nats 6-2. zim played well and felt tremendous. marlow furniture is making a bet with you. if you buy furniture between now and monday, april 6, if the nationals and orioles face-off in the world series, all the furniture is free. keep in mind marlow is taking a bet on yboth teams are expected to do well. the caps post the hurricanes tomorrow night as they try to continue their momentum to the playoffs. the wizards try to lock up a playoff spot this week. leon bought a couch today. leon: i know a couple of homers that would do it. a rare find at a goodwill store, just ahead. leon: one dead, two injured as the police shoot two cross-dressing men who tried to ram through the nsa barricades. a new law regarding religious freedom causing controversy in indiana.

introduce himself to a man named joseph warren, who was a doctor and a member of the same masonic lodge as paul revere, which is the masonic lodge that is widely believed to have perpetrated the tea party and arnold was a mason. the masons in the colonies, if you were a mason you went to another town and you automatically were accepted by the other masons, who tended to be not only the social leaders and the financial leaders but the intellectual leaders. c-span: what was a mason? >> guest: a freemason. that organization started in france, and it was anti-catholic and it was anti-autocratic. they were great believers in individual rights and great believers in thomas paine and the rights of man and all that. c-span: only men? >> guest: oh, yes, sure. this is where arnold, i think, picked up a lot of his rhetoric he had very good rhetoric, but i think this is where he picked up a lot of his patriotic rhetoric, from being a mason. anyway, he gets to cambridge and he manages to meet joseph warren, the head of the massachusetts committee of safety. there is a massachusetts committee of safety, a ma

paul edholme, a forensic document examiner, was asked to compare gerald mason's handwriting to the signature of george wilson on the ymca register. almost immediately, edholme noticed that some letters seemed to jump off the page. >> first was the capital "g," because we had "g" in george and "g" in gerald. and as far as the height relationship, as far as the width of the letter, as far as the slant, the amount of strokes it took to form the letter, each one of those was consistent, and that was very important. >> there were other similarities in the letter "d" and "s," "o," "n." and there was something more. >> what i noted in mr. mason's handwriting was from 1957, at that time he was 23 years old, until 1999, his handwriting did not change one iota. it was exactly the same. >> edholme was convinced that gerald mason signed the ymca register with the alias george d. wilson. nearly five decades after the crime, mason was arrested and charged with murder. >> when we introduced ourselves and told him we were homicide investigators, he was a little bit irritated and it was almost like you're he

george mason has hired dave paulson as their head basketball coach replacing paul hewitt. paulson led bucknell to two ncaa tournament appearances the last five years. head coach brenda frese has made the terps the consistent national contender. they won the championship in 200 6 and the terps have been knocking on the door ever since. they lost in the final four last year. to get back to the final four the terrapins will have to win tonight against one of the most storied programs in all of basketball. tennessee volunteers. game time is 9:00 p.m. hey, it was a great weekend in the men's tournament. coach k has taken duke to the final four for the 12th time. tom izzo has the number seven seed in the semifinal. how about kentucky going for the perfect 40-0 season? that's incredible. notre dame had them on the ropes. they had to do -- all they had to do was make free throws. irish played well and may have given wisconsin a blueprint to beating the wildcats. they spread the floor. switched the defenses. led to a strong inside game. that's what august did. great game. we'll see

mason university didn't make the tournament this year. nine wins. 22 losses this season. we learned this morning paul hewitt head coach is out. he has been fired as the coach there. he ran the team for the last four years apparently not good enough. the national zoo asking for >>> i'm angie goff at the live desk. break news. u.s. attorney for d.c. stepping down as of april 1st. this wraps up five years of service. the second largest in this office. plans to return to private practice hearing from our tom sherwood saying that the justice department named vincent cohen as the acting u.s. attorney. matsch top assistant. the mayor gray investigation, sherwood weighing in on this in twitter saying that mayor gray investign is incomplete and continui according to matschin. stepping down as of april 1st. aaron. >> t you.> some of the stories you need to know online now. all over the country folks are talk asking dolce and gabbana, asking to ar boy caught of them. trending on twitter. lots of team talking about this. the designers criticized same-sex parent of course elton john and his partner are same-sex parents. and so he's asking

mason was not even in the hunt. so today, they fired head coach paul hewitt. all right let's talk pro basketball. we go to the wizard who's won three in a row. they play portland tonight in the phone booth and the trail blazer are playing as well as anybody in the league right now. east vs. west is tonight. in hockey, hockey fans the caps got a huge win last night against the bruins. braden holtby was the difference maker and got his eighth shutout of the year. the offense gave him what he needed to win. the caps beat the bruins 2-0 and play the sabres tonight in buffalo and they can't let up because they have a whole lot of folks chasing them in the standings. baseball, theationals are 4-7 for the spring. the nats beat the astros this afternoon. clint robinson took this pitch to left center field. that's trouble. he goes to the wall. tony gwynn jr. is running from the get go. no chance. robinson gets a triple out of it. the final this afternoon was 2-1. all right. you orioles and phillies this afternoon, clearwater. this is a sight for sore eyes. chris davis launches one deep and that's a rip sh

mason has a new head coach. dave paulson the man in charge of resurrecting the patriots program. they made it official today hiring the 50-year-old to take over for paulitt. he was fired after this season. but who is dave paulson? we'll show you here. he spent the last seven seasons with buck nel. three time patriot league coach of the year including this past season. also a division three national champion back in 2003. won the championship with williams college. >>> vcu head coach is in discussions with the university of texas about their vacant head coaching job. now, smart he's been at vcu since 2009. he led them to the unprobable final four run back in 2011. he told the richmond times that no school has requested permission to interview coach smart. >>> over on the baseball diamond, the nationals making news today trading the reliever jerry blevin to the nets. he did finish with a career high 66 strikeouts. they'll send the nationals outfielder matt den decker. one home run, 13 runs driven in in the first two big league seasons. >> one home run against us? >> yes, against the nationals. so we'll see how it works out. >> i'd be on ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> compe

paul hewitt. he spent the last four years with the patriots. this past season the team finished wius nip wins and 22 losses. korlt a report from yahoo! sports, masons focusing on jay larranaga tke over the program. he's currently an assistant with the boston celtics. >>> the maryland women could pack it um right now and we could stilll spectaculare undefeated home, a regular-sean anwothe big ten tournament but the season isn't over. time to dance. they find out who they play. jason pugh at maryla with the big ten's coach of the year on selection monda >> thoonks, diana. brenda frese, the head coach of the basketba team. tremendous arh season for your group. what was it at this team that made hem stand out more so than other teams you've had in the past? >> just the fact they were never satisfied. they me in set their own bar and continue raise the bar every time out. a special team having a special season. >> reporrundefeated in the big ten this year, 30 wins on the season. does this gr deserve a number-one sd? >> i don't put a lot into the number in front of your name. last year we were a four seed. i think, you know, we've consistent shown throu

mason has hired dave paulson as the new head basketball coach. he led bucknell to two ncaa tournaments in the last five years. he replaces paulearlier this month. on to women's basketball the terps play tennessee tonight for a right to go to the final four. believe me when i say this won't be any walk in the park. volunteers match up with maryland. they're used to being on a big stage. maryland likes the big stage as well. the terps have won 27 straight games. and still have yet to reach all of their goals. >> we set goals at the beginning of the year. we've met every single one of them thus far. to put all the work in the summer and preseason and everything that we've been able to accomplish this year you know, this is more icing on the cake of our accomplishments and we're not done yet. tim: downtown lexi brown, they need you tonight. at the men's tournament so many of the games have been phenomenal and down to the final four four. leon has all four of them. for one, i enjoyed seeing mike k win again. i went to maryland. i understand maryland-duke but he is a class act. great coach. good friend. he's going to his 12th final

mason men's basketball team have a new face leading the way. dave paulson has been hired as the team's next head coach. he comes over from bucknell replacing paulwho was fired earlier this month. paulsen spent the last seven seasons with bucknell leading the buy sons to the ncaa tournament twice during that time. he's a three-time patriot league coach of the year including this past season in which bucknell made it to the nit. he's also a national champion winning the division iii title back in 2003 as head coach at williams college. >>> over on the women's side maryland puts their 27-game winning streak on the line as they face tennessee in the elite eight tonight. the terps looking to make it back-to-back trips to the final four. they want to make it to tampa, florida, but the terps need a big performance from point guard lexi brown, maryland's second leading scorer, just one point against duke on saturday. maryland battled tennessee in the sweet 16 a year ago. brenda frese expecting an extra fired-up vols squad tonight. >> i think they'll have great motivation. talk about we were the team to end their season last year so you don't forget tha