these women were the first to pickett the white house and we're now able to exhibit many banners from the original nwp collection that tells this compelling story along with images of the pickets showing their determination, sacrifice and commitment. meticulous records documents their visit to members of ded r nwp's congressional card file once known by the press as the deadly political index. today this unique collection contains over 5,000 cards detailing members hobbies, educations, religious and economic background, views on women's suffrage and other related social issues and often very candid comments by the nwp women who interviewed them. visitors to sewall-belmont can read through this index and learn the challenges of securing suffrage and equal rights through congress and lobbying techniques created by nwp which are still in use by other organizations today. over 100 women were ultimately imprisoned at occoquan work house. thanks to the cataloging work of the collection staff as well as dedicated interns we uncovered objects from natalee's gray period in prison which indicat

aretha and wilson pickett's stuff was already set. they weren't interested in building of developing another r & b act. >> hinojosa: so you basically have this moment where, you know, american popular culture is being decided... you know, one of the ways in which it's going to go, by a couple of guys. >> mm-hmm. >> hinojosa: and you were the victim. >> right. >> hinojosa: and at that point, you said that you got under a table for how many days? >> i got under the dining room table, and i stayed under there for three ys. i just had this big jug of wine, and i just poured that in a paper cup and drank it, and i would come out, and go to the bathroom, and go right back up under there. >> hinojosa: are you crying? >> oh, yeah, all day. i was just devastated. and then somebody called and said, "come and do something." >> hinojosa: you know, you talk about the fact that you had these 40 years... you had your first hit in 1962, and then essentially 40 years of still working, but without a hit. and you talk a lot about what that felt like, th

this attack happened around 4:00 on monday on a path along pickett road in fairfax county. erika gonzalez joins us live from the scene with reaction from those who heard the cries for help. >> reporter: good afternoon. a fairfax county public schools bus driver tells me that she heard the teen scream for help and that it sent chills down her spine. >> it was the loudest, pitching, horrifying scream, and it was -- it must have lasted five minutes. >> reporter: this bus driver, who has chosen to remain anonymous, says she was finishing her route monday afternoon around 4:00 when she and several other students heard a girl screaming in the woods off pickett road in west springfield. >> the way that these trees echoed it was horrendous. i don't want to ever hear it. don't want to ever hear it again. >> reporter: she says she and the other students ran to see if they could find her but no luck. fairfax county police say a 16-year-old girl was walking home from woodson high school along this wooded path when she was reportedly assaulted by a man. after a struggle with her alleged

she was taking a short cut through the woods along pickett road in the west springfield area.udent managed to run to a nearby house to get some help. >> d.c. mayor gray says he supports a broad review of city campaign finance laws but today he declined to endorse any specific proposal. some question the response since gray's own campaign for mayor is a subject of a possible probe into possible criminal wrongdoing. the council said it is working to enact campaign reform but no timetable has been given. >>> mitt romney collected some delegates and perhaps some momentum in his win in illinois primary yesterday. former florida governor jeb bush today endorsed romney and encouraged other republicans to rally around romney's candidacy. >>> we are hearing more tonight about the man at the center of a shooting controversy in central florida. george zimmerman told police he shot trayvon martin in self-defense after an altercation with the unarmed teenager. >> the case has gained national attention and now we're learning zimmerman once lived in our area. jane watrel has our report. >> r

lead to tried toof a man who sexually assault the woodson as shehool student along home from school picketteported a mane grabbing her neck from behind and assaulting her. they struggled but was able to eventually get free. university of maryland medical center doctors will offer today about a face performed their last week. this was the most expensive full transplant ever done. 37-year-old patient received a full face transplant including the upper and lower jaw bones, teeth as well as soft tissue from his hairline to his neck. >> first lady michelle obama morning will help with the centennial tree planting ceremony. >> this commemorate the 1912 blossom the cherry washington.okyo to lady yesterday, local students held her to plant a garden, part of her y.itiative students eat health it is 37 degrees. >> one celebrity will kick off for goodcing shoes dancing.n ♪rolling on the river >> which stars did the best and are in danger of elimination tonight for. are in danger of elimination tonight for. >> and buying this juicer online was unbelievable. what a bargain! [ female announcer ] sometime

the 16-year-old girl was walking on pickett road monday afternoon when a man grabbed her neck from behind and a salted her. they struggled and she was knocked to the ground. he eventually ran away. the suspect is believed to be driving a white, four-door early 2000's model honda accord. also he made the ultimate sacrifice, a marine from purcellville virginia, barry today at arlington national cemetery. captain michael quin was killed last month during a routine training exercise in alexander when his helicopter collided with another chopper. he was a graduate of mountain valley high school. he was 28 years old. >> the fight over pink slime, a big announcement from one of the biggest grocery chains. >> and how to make sure your next bus ride is safe. there is an application for that. >> and a crash and explosion at a gas station caught on tape. >> and we are still waiting for clouds to clear out. so that temperatures can climb may be as much as 80 degrees by the end of the week. a little clearing over the water you're on timeout leo! some things won't last 25 years. ah! woof. some things w

girl was walking on pickett road last week when a man grabbed her neck from behind and assaulted her. they struggled but she was eventually able to get free. >> a month ago today trayvon martin was shot and killed by neighborhood watch cap and in florida. tens of thousands of people expected to mark the anniversary with rallies in the district, baltimore, and around the country. illegal experts say the u.s. department of justice could bring hate crimes charges. that is if police find evidence the shooting was motivated by racial bias. george zimmerman has already admitted to shooting and killing the florida teenager. his lawyer says it was self- defense. >> i think that he is surprised of the magnitude of the way things have taken off and it has become a national issue over calling him a racist. that is definitely iswho george zimmerman is. >> his lawyer also claims it was martin who attacked his client. district students are showing their support for trayvon martin's family. students at the schools without wall is joining the naacp for a march to the white house tomorrow. coming up a

reid's, but also the shutdown of the white coffee pot restaurant chain where patrons refused to cross pickett lines. larry gibson, my school mate at city, raised in baltimore, attended howard university in washington, d.c. from 1960 to 1964 where he was student body president and chairperson of d.c. students for civil rights. i've always known him to be an advocate. his long career as a civil rights attorney, professor of law and political adviser includes defending the black panther party, becoming university of virginia's first black law professor and serving as the maryland state chairman of the clinton-gore president campaign. most recently traveling internationally serving to the president of liberia and africa's first democratically elected female president. dr. barry landerman was one of the original interviewers for the mckel done jackson oral history project. among his notable interviews were james heparin, police commissioner of balt plor in the '50s. governor mill larpd taos, david w. zimmerman, former deputy superintendent of the state department of education and governor mckel do

we won't have to be outside with pickett lines. they can ignore that. we can just charge into a place and let them deal with people coming in who are saying we want to be served. of course, it was illegal. we didn't know if we would eventually be locked up. we didn't know if we would be put out of school. we didn't know what the consequences were going to be. actually there were no consequences that were bad. they were good consequences in the sense that we found a new way to fight. and we kept going so that as late as the 60s -- it took us that long to break that bond of segregation in eating establishments in baltimore. it was the '60s before reid's totally desegregated. what they did was open that one store. they did not -- they were individually managed, so they opened that one store. they did not open them all. then we had to go back and the protests had to go to north wood and to the reid's drugstore there. at the same time huts her's and hex on, so forth and so on. we had felt for a long time that we could not be treated that way. we were going t

here's our religious affairs competent robert pickett. >> even if demeanded to be let into canterbury that need ral for his enthronement, be williams was a reluctant leader of the church. >> this is why the christian will engage in passion p in the world of society and politics. out of a real hunger and thirst to see god's image, the destiny of human beings to become god's sons and daughters come to light. >> dr. williams said he wanted to capture the imagination of the public for christianity. >> let us greet our newly enthroned archbishop with great gladness. >> with the start he had to contend with deep divisions in the church of england and world wide anglican communion about homosexuality. >> it's just unfortunate that he came to be archbishop at a time when the communion was being driven apart by issues of human sexuality. i think what he's trying to do is to hold the church together wherever his own personal views. >> the order nation of gene robinson as bishop interveened in the crisis he had to manage for the decade. >> he had to deal with tensions that brings because he's no

the man grabbed her by the neck and dragged her to the ground. 4:00 yesterday on a path along pickett road. police canvassed the area and didn't find any one. investigators told news 4 they do not think it is related to a sex assault of a woman nearby last week >> mitt romney will go to bed feeling good about his showing in illinois. he will win the state with more than 45% of vote easily outpacing rick santorum. still a question about how far that will go in terms of united the party. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: mitt romney shored up his front-runner status in illinois. a win this one by a large margin in a big midwestern battleground state. >> join us. join us. together we are going to ensure that america's greatest days are still ahead. thanks, you guys. thank you so much. >> reporter: romney showed his strength. winning men and women voters in illinois. moderates and tea party activists. most said the economy was their number one concern. >> i don't care what the unemployment rate is going to be. rick santorum campaigned on freedom from big government and missed an oppo

pickett done a brilliant research on this equality trust in the u.k. . what. what are the consequences of inequality in the united states and around the world and how should we best interest. it's socially destructive in the most fundamental way and you know we're just coming out of the first decade in american history for job creation went down median incomes went down social mobility went down inequality went up as it's been going up for a while and is a relationship between the two and there's a direct relationship between the two and if we don't fix that that's our system we have a recovery last year ninety three percent of the benefits the recovery went to the top one percent seven percent table scraps with the rest of us that's not sustainable because what happens is the people at the very bottom they fall out completely no education the majority of minority students in cities in america drop out of high school well you drop out of high school in the global economy if today you are done you are out of the system you are a burden to society you are angry

thrown back into recession if the dispute over iran's nuclear program causes all prices to spike pickett plus there's the critical level is around one hundred fifty dollars per barrel if we start getting towards the one hundred fifty dollars or above there would be definitely be a serious impact into the world economy. so many analysts say if the straits of hormuz work to be close or temporarily obstructed for some reason then prices will go off to grade and then most likely prices will cross that one hundred fifty dollars line and then the world economy would definitely suffer and that suffering would be in order him sphere u.s. europe asia everybody would suffer and then following that there would be a correction in the market place to the downside. in all that's raising crews from his biggest school in three months los suites up one dollar today alone wall street is mixed in new york old news the february existing home sales in the u.s. fell almost one percent and european markets are flags off the u.k. finance chief george osborne cut the fifty percent tax rate in his annual budget t

cloud or much worse igor pickett's charge that saved at least some of their blushes though with a late consolation goal but it was a day to get for the bulls as terry plays again this points now there are three games in the russian prime a league today league leaders any could go eight points clear at the top with a win over could pan rubin lokomotiv moscow go head to head each with a chance of climbing up to another boston rostov played crystal get off just four points above the relegation zone. while in england didier drogba has become the first african player to score one hundred goals in the premier league he got the winner and chelsea's one nil victory over ten man stoke cauliflower getting a red card for violent conduct midway through the first half and chelsea finally breaking down in the seventy eighth minute with goal that puts the blues in the same number of points as arsenal in fourth load the gun is to have a game in hand elsewhere talking slumped to a third defeat in a row with a one nil loss the evident nicklas bendtner goal gave sunderland the points against liverpool wh

triedities say this man assault is 16-year- student walking on pickett road when a man grabbed her neck behind and assault the door. she struggled, and was eventually able to get free. none of the money that fell from truck on the 270 has been turned in. police say two bags complaining -- containing $5,700 fell onto northbound 370. police -- 270. police are urging them to return money. a vote expected tonight for the plan on a multimillion- dollar casino. the casino would have blackjack tables and nearly 5000 slot machines. also calls for a 10% tax. if it passes, the public will vote this fall. if you think you have good neighbors, wait until you hear this story. group of d.c. residents in progress. theft >> they held the suspect until cops arrived. it then eisner joins us with the story. ben eisler joins us. >> it does not hurt that one of them is a very large man and another is a former cop. >> it seemed like they were to get into something. two young men began circling van. its owner noticed and started window.rom the all of a sudden, one of them to screwdriver and began to pick the

a 16-year-old girl was walking along pickett road when a man grabbed her neck from behind and assaulted her. they struggled and he eventually ran away. >> it is 57 degrees in germantown. >> still ahead, new developments in the case of a u.s. soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians. why his lawyer is leaving the country. >> and arlington police chief back peddling on a memo over ticket quotas. >> first another check on traffic and weather every 10 minutes. here's a shot of its cherry blossoms at the height jefferson memorial. it's hi. we're spreading the word about new honey bunches of oats fruit blends and their unique taste combinations. like peach/raspberry. with one flavor in the granola bunch and one on the flake. two flavors. in harmony. honey bunches of oats. make your day bunches better. >> by the clock done on this wednesday morning. time for traffic and weather. -- 5"10 on this one:10. >> we are giving you the green light. the volume is light enough where travel times are still comfortable. 95 between fredericksburg and baltimore, the greenway, the toll road, 66, 270. li

the woodson high school student was walking home from school long pickett road last week when a man grabbedfrom behind and assaulting her. they struggled, but she was eventually able to get free. >> 7 is on your side with new research suggesting that weight- loss surgery can reverse and possibly your type 2 diabetes. two studies compared stomach- producing operations to medicines. both studies found surgery helps far more patients achieve normal blood sugar levels than medicines alone. >> how quickly might they come off insulin? >> some patients, often in tha come off it within hours of surgery. >> doctors say weight-loss surgery should be offered sooner and to more people with diabetes and not just as a last resort. and we have good news for cchocolate lovers. people that need moderate amounts of chocolate are thinner than those who need it less often. those eating dark chocolate reduce their risk of heart disease by one-third. people who eat chocolate should exercise three times to five times a week. that takes a little bit of the fun out of it. >> it sure does. it is 5:47. tonight the da

pickett sirree-pick for pick 4 =--- in tonight's medical watch the number of children with autism risesisease control and prevention says one out of 80 kids had some form of autism in 2008. back in 2000 and one in 150 had it. the group of his speech says more children are diagnosed with autism because there's a better awareness and better diagnosis. the organization says these numbers prove there is an autism epidemic in the u.s.. >> the link between cancer and obesity. researchers report that obesity and a lack of pesticides are risk factors in as many as one-third of common cancers in the u.s.. nearly 78 million american adults are obese. and experts say many are not aware of the link between of the city in cancer care to people don't smoke, the researchers say maintaining a healthy weight and getting enough exercise may be among the most important ways to prevent cancer. >> a new survey uncovered disturbance statistics about kids and dating. researchers pulled more than 1,407th the craters and they found 37 percent had expressed some form of psychological abuse. >> thanks to the powe

it happened yesterday around 4:00 on a popular path near pickett road. that is just three miles away from another sexual assault last week. in the latest case the girl says the man grabbed her neck and dragged her into the woods. there was a struggle, she screamed and he ran off. the victim ran to a nearby house to get help. police are trying to figure out if the attacks are connected. >>> there is a new lawsuit over bullying filed in montgomery county today, but the alleged victims are teachers. the accused bully, the principal. news 4's chris gordon is live on the reportedly outrageous actions some teachers say forced them out of their jobs. >> reporter: the teachers tell me they wouldn't have filed this lawsuit here at the montgomery county circuit court if there had been any alternative. but they say for the past four and a half years at their school, things have gone from bad to worse. the teachers and their attorney filed the lawsuit against the montgomery county board of education for ignoring their complaints against elementary school principal f

teenager on her way home from woodson high school yesterday around 4 in the afternoon on a path near pickett road. the 16-year-old girl said a man approached her from behind, grabbed her neck and they struggled to the ground. she ran off and was not seriously hurt. >>> a news alert from the campaign trail tonight. mitt romney won the illinois republican presidential primary beating out rival rick santorum in the big state contest. romney carried a significant lead over santorum, newt gingrich and ron paul. you can see the numbers with about 81% of the precincts reporting, 48% of his vote. in his victory speech romney came out swinging against president obama's energy policies. >> under this president bureaucrats prevent drilling rigs from going to work in the gulf and keep coal from being mined and impede the reliable supply of natural gas and tell farmers what their kids can do on their farms. this administration's assault on freedom has kept this so- called recovery from meeting their projections, let alone our expectations. >> fox 5 political analyst mark plotkin joins us now. mitt romney

. >> reporter: cheryl pickett's husband, ron, wasn't supposed to be home when the storms hit. >> he shouldn't have been here. he came home early from work because he didn't feel good and wanted to take a nap. >> reporter: he died when a twister ripped apart their home. now cheryl, who had been planning a celebration for their 40th wedding anniversary -- >> we were going to have a hell of a party. >> reporter: now, instead, she must prepare for a funeral. across tornado alley, for many, the only thing left to hold on to is each other, and they understand they are the lucky ones. >> we're all okay. that's all that matters. >> reporter: as they work through the haunting images of what's happened here and the painful reality that's left behind. jay gray, nbc news, henryville, indiana. >> through all the death and destruction, there are also stories of survival. a 2-year-old was found wandering in a field in salem, indiana. her entire family was killed in the tornadoes and her home was destroyed. the little girl is currently in critical condition and the hospital is taking donations to help her ou

the 16-year-old told police it happened about 4:00 yesterday on a path along pickett road. the teen told police a man approached her from behind, grabbed her neck and knocked her to the ground. she fought back and he eventually ran away. the teenager ran to a nearby house for help. >>> some teachers in montgomery county say they have been bullied by their principal. they filed a lawsuit today. they claim the principal's allegedly outrageous actions, as they call them, forced them out of their jobs. chris gordon is at the montgomery county courthouse with more on this. chris. >> reporter: teachers say half the staff at kent mill elementary school has left in the last year. they are suing both the principal and the montgomery county board of education. the teachers and their attorney filed the lawsuit against the montgomery county board of education for ignoring their complaints against kent mill elementary school principal floyd stearns, who they say has created a hostile environment for teachers, staff and students. >> i was at kent mill for 28 years. the reason we're bring

when pickett was charging against the union front, stuart was coming around the rear with the idea that they would cut the union forces in half. custer actually prevented stuart from carrying out his part of that strategy, because he got himself out from under kilpatrick's orders. farnsworth, on the other hand, was ordered to make a suicidal charge by kilpatrick, and he even questioned kilpatrick and said, "are you certain you want me to do this?'' kilpatrick insisted, and farnsworth, only a few days after his appointment to the rank of general, was killed, along with many of his men. custer somehow was able, even under a leader like kilpatrick, to not only keep himself alive but to play a distinguished role. c-span: are there any original notes that he kept, general custer? >> guest: oh, many. he was quite a correspondent in many long letters to his wife in which he discussed -- and to his family, discussing his battles and his experience in the field. but in addition he, of course, wrote many military reports. and at the time of his death, he was writing his civil war memoirs based on

happened when 16- year-old girl was attacked near pickett road monday.en she screamed r help and newschannel 8 will more in a live report coming up at 7:30. let's get a quick check on the morning commute with lisa baden. it is another day of thought things slow and interesting. problem longstanding m the westbound freeway large," asphalt in the been removedhas to southwestto get as a better computer. a truck has turned over on 66. this is oxon hill. >> it will take awhile to burn intohis fall and break later in the afternoon. we have a thick fog advisory until 10:00 a.m. and there is almost no visibility and some of the low-lying neighborhood. the district and frederick and on r way to the 70's this afternoon. into the weekend, unsettled any chance of rain. back with another update at 7:56. >>> that is christa pike. she is one of the most dangerous women in the country. and she's on death row. but that is not stopping men from falling in love with her and trying to help her escape. that story, so bizarre, just ahead. we say good morning, america. on this