this is december 21st 1773 printed in salem, massachusetts. here we have the most out of the eyewitness account of the boston tea party. it was written by an impartial observer. very common for students to be used. he read about a padlock being destroyed one of the ships and how the rebels who are writing quickly replaced by padlock to remain blameless for anything but the destruction. you also learn the same account of one of the rebel columnists pocketing and quickly been seized by other participants. we also learned the boston tea party was not celebrated. in a february 1774 cassette, we read the minutes from marshfield, massachusetts at a meeting where they label the boston tea party illegal, unjust and dangerous. the shot heard round the world, that came very close to happening on multiple occasions weeks and months prior to april 19, 1775. one case in particular cover in the book is how close he came to happening for months prior. also along paul revere once i learned he went on multiple revolutionary race. one case in particular was his

. >> division ii championship, valdosta and salem.p the middle. 96 yards later, 7-0 valdosta before they even sat down. still in the first. o'neill, fourth and one. goes 4 yards, o'neill, 141 yards on 24 carries. valdosta state wins their third national championship, 35-7 your final, ending their season 12-2. >> high school football, marin catholic facing madison high school from san diego nor the cif championship. court farther, the quarterback, headed to cal, through four t.d.es on the day. tipped into the hands of hanley, wildcats up 35-31. maddison answers. cormier, ran for 272 yards. this kid has some speed. 79 yards. mad dissin your cif division iii champions with a 38-35 victory. >>> de la salle looking for another championship game. we'll have the highlights for you and a preview of the game hoff the day, 49ers and patriots. >> ama: still to come, a helping hand for the ohio. one group is help thing >> ama: join me at 9:00 on cable 13. we'll find out what scientists believe caused thousands squids to wash up this week. then at

. >> abc7 news have been sending their storm photos this shows flooding along salem avenue in cupertino. viewers caught storm damage in other parts of the bay area, this petaluma river. vic lee sent this photo of a fallen tree that crushed a car on crescent avenue in san mateo. we would like to share your pictures send them to ureport. >>> 4:36. i stayed in all day yesterday. and i'm blaming the weather. >>> let's check in with mike. >>> that was probably a good idea that way you weren't running in the cold rain. good morning. nothing showing up the last three hours on live doppler, whether radar returns or satellite, we have fog forming, patchy east bay valleys, north bay more localized and dense around novato 1 and 3/4 mile visibility, a quarter of a mile in santa cruz. santa cruz 38°, a lot of low to mid 40s inland, antioch and san rafael 48. 50 half moon bay. 45 mountain view, san jose oakland 48 in san francisco and fremont. today 40s patchy fog through 7:00 this morning. partly cloudy noon, low to mid 50s. high clouds this afternoon, low to mid 50s cooler this evening than last ev

are lifelike in salem massachusetts or wherever you land 10 years from now?>> what i'd like to do whenever we don't have to keep pushing the case like this, whenever we are not having to dedicate all of our time to getting out of the lingle pashtun legal tangle we are still and i'd like to have a small meditation center in salem were i could share my story to the people who are in desperate situations and to have anything else to rely on spring i guess you are talking about something as mundane as being in the bank and feeling a sense of anxiety, but i guess in a way all of this has prepared you for really mind over matter a lot of shit in your life, right? >> it has. it's like in prison, people would take how do you do it? and answer is you don't have a choice. you just keep putting one foot in front of the other doing whatever you have to, to survive. whenever you get out here, that's what you are still going. you just keep rolling with that same thing. >> danny and kelly, you guys pashtun i don't know, i don't really know you guys but i don't know what you

salem ohio, had a half-foot. now the snow continues tonight into parts of new england and the brunt of it, the 8 to 12-inch area is going to fall in southern new england. that hot pink spot south of boston into eastern connecticut is where we think most of the snow will fall. >> ginger, we're about 20 blocks north of times square now, for new year's, what does it look? >> kind of like this. flurries. temperatures in the mid-20s. remember, too, icy roads tonight for those not getting a ton of snow. >> great warning there. ginger, thank you. >>> the other storm swirling out there in washington, the one ang angering americans across the country. tonight, three days to go before taxes go up for all americans. will the pressure on congress bring in a deal? let's bring in jon karl on this. >> a little closer, certainly not there yet. congressional leaders are making one last-ditch effort to get to a mini deal. with just three days left, finally a glimmer of hope. >> i'm hopeful and optimistic. >> whatever we come up wi

others is salem's killed one law enforcement official firing a rocket propelled grenade at the compound then shot dead and wounded the others in the ensuing battle there it is believed to be a link to the recent attention of two men suspected of carrying out several assassinations of security officials in the city. fiji is preparing for a fast approaching psycho now authorities say more than four hundred people have already been evacuated the cyclon earlier tore through the nation of samoa claiming at least four lives there and forcing thousands from their homes. at least eight people have been killed fifty five injured after several explosions rocked the northern iraqi city of kirkuk no one's claimed responsibility yet for the attack the blast come only a few hours after a car bomb hit an office of the patriotic union of kurdistan party north of the iraqi capital killing two security workers and wounding thirteen there tension in the region has been rising of late with kurds increasing their demands for sovereignty. coming up we take a look at the mysterious death of former soviet lead

salem's to become and herds cattle as part of this preparation. however these beasts get a musical the company knew that. they can remember the sound sequences you know they want to the sound signals the flutes the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just a fun thing but these meadows didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own crops fund their own fish and repair their own churches. but the central purpose of alarm has always been religious the main ministry surrounded by smaller priories spread through the many archipelago the monks here know their existence is a little different from that of other ministries here we are out of the way and we do have. built rooms and so on times tourists as well but no way of. tranquility use is hardly. disturbed. the

just to relax and to gain some power who rosmah salem will enjoy a good break at home in the southeast of sweden as teammate a commitment son will be busy playing for his country nigeria. fans watching serious cause game with mordovia were relatively well off but the temperature only dropping to minus five however by. and the players will be absolutely delighted to be on him and will be in a great position to end this seven year wait to win the russian premier league title when the season resumes in two thousand and thirteen which of them bravely donte moscow. on to ice hockey now and pavel datsyuk inspired a mighty come by quite a scare but it wasn't enough to overcome alexander ovechkin and his leaving did a moscow as the two n.h.l. stars faced each other for the first time in the k h l i thought i knew and has more. it was destined to be the game of the week and it was. great and it's on the. coming face to face in the. open for the moving sled she. can hardly miss from this spot. and by the middle of the second the blizzard watch has had a full bore. on the roster. this piece. of.

. >> salem, ohio, half-foot. knox, pennsylvania, 8. new england is going to take the brunt of it. >> 20 blocks north of times square, for folks out there watching the ball drop. >> kind of like this. flurries. temperatures in the mid-20s. >>> the other storm swirling out there in washington, is the one angering americans across the country. this evening, three days to go before taxes go up for all americans. will the president's pressure on congress bring in a deal? let's bring in jon karl on this. are they any closer? >> a little closer, certainly not there yet. tonight, congressional leaders are making one last-ditch effort to get to a mini deal. with just three days left, finally a glimmer of hope. >> i'm hopeful and optimistic. >> whatever we come up with it's going to be imperfect. some people aren't going to a like it. >> reporter: right now, it's all in the hands of the two senate leaders. democratic harry reid and republican mitch mcconnell. they're working on a mini-deal that would prevent a tax increase for roughly 98% of ame

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give up shipping to have manufacturing all across the residence with the politicians but the guys in salem aren't too happy about it well i love your guys didn't they when i lived in my car i have to tell you sometimes i think you go bad how can you explain to be commonsensical if that's even a word we'll make it up for the show tonight that if another country can build something better and more efficiently than we can that we should dedicate assets to it here now we should build it here even though china can build it cheaper and more efficiently we should spend more money and allocate more fixed assets here to do better just this one is that i mean any real wealth of nations the famous quote where he talks about the invisible hand of the sentence begins with by prefer in domestic manufacturers to two imports or some variation on that the person x. is on a self-interest in a way is as if it was a visible enemy it's all this week it is anniversary of the boston tea party this kind of an interesting thing on protectionism and some telling people yeah this sunday telling people which products

for a year and worked with a nonprofit in fact i still work with the most international nonprofit salem international and at the time that i lived there i don't know what their policy is now but at the time that i live there when you got to high school you gave one year of service to your country could either be in the military or you could volunteer with a nonprofit we had a bunch of these kids coming through the program that i was with and after that year you got free college i don't object to that. well i do that there's a catholic high school in boston where the high school students work as in turns in the summer and they work one day a month for companies in boston the companies take what would be their salary and they give it to the school in lieu of tuition you can't have a you can't have a household income over forty five thousand to get into this school and the whole idea is unlike other private schools the idea is we never want your kids to go to this school and it's a fantastic program in other words the no nos legacy subsidies old ego a family of the with no no definitely a

the clerk: h.r. 1339, an act to designate the city of salem, massachusetts, as the birthplace of the national guard of the united states. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i further ask the bill be read a third time, passed, the motion to reconsider be considered phaeupbd laid on the table, with no intervening or debate and statements related to the measure be printed in the record at the appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent the committee on commerce be discharged from further consideration of h.r. 4212 and we now proceed to this matter. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 4212, an act to prevent the introduction into commerce of unsafe dry wall and so forth and other purposes. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that the vitter substitute amendment which is at the desk be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed, t

this one from cupertino where you can see flooding along salem avenue. we also caught other areas. this is the petaluma river where the water was cresting well above where it normally sits. abc7 news vic lee sent this photo of a fall entry that you are cred a car in san mateo. we would like you to share your weather video or pictures. send them to you report at kgo-tv.com. and thankfully we are now getting a break from the rain. leigh glaser has the latest. >> we certainly are. what a storm that moved through earlier in the day. live doppler 7hd right now is starting to show you that things are starting to clear up a bit. the rain clouds have pushed on toward the south and east of us as the cold front has moved to the south as well. we will say goodbye to that system. there is another one off the coast, and i will let you know the timing of that in a moment. 24-hour rainfall amounts. it is over two inches in san rafael and close to an inch in san francisco. oakland an inch and a quarter. close to an inch for concord. half an inch livermore and san jose close to an inch of rain. loo

this one from cupertino where you can see flooding along salem avenue. we also caught other areas.his is the petaluma river where the water was cresting well above where it normally sits. abc7 news vic lee sent this photo of a fall entry that you are cred a car in san mateo. we would like you to share your weather video or pictures. send them to you report at kgo-tv.com. and thankfully we are now getting a break from the rain. leigh glaser has the latest. >> we certainly are. what a storm that moved through earlier in the day. live doppler 7hd starting is starting to show you that things are starting to clear up a bit. the rain clouds have pushed on toward the south and east of us as the cold front has moved to the south as well. we will say goodbye to that system. there is another one off the coast, and i will let you know the timing of that in a moment. 24-hour rainfall amounts. it is over two inches in san rafael and close to an inch in san francisco.n inch and oakland an inch and a quarter. close to an inch for concord. half an inch livermore and san jose close to an inch of ra

marshals office out of salem. >> he was so friendly. he was so polite. i couldn't imagine if he knew he was wanted he would have handed my his i.d. that's what caught me off guard. >> the corporal sees daniel waiting patiently in front of the cruiser. if he were wanted by police, wouldn't he try to escape? >> why is he being so compliant? why isn't he making a run for it? all those things make me think i have the right guide. >> he decides to question him further. >> let me ask you something. are you supposed to be in a half way house or something like that? okay, you sure about that. because we're checking on something right now but it looks like -- >> that's something i regret. giving him the heads up that i knew he was wanted. >> you don't have any weapons or anything on you, do you? >> i asked him to put his satchel thing, little day planner on the hood of the car. >> mecham already inspected the inside of the satchel when he showed him the i.d. >> i looked down inside it. what i saw is i didn't think anything could hurt me. i never saw him turn the

subscribe in the pilgrims exactly what they were doing and the pilgrims morphed into the puritans had the salemlems accepting other people's points of view. >> i think no group of people is perfect for sure. >> except the factor and the factor staff. >> okay maybe. >> but what i love, though, was the fact that if i could actually reach back in time in order to get some wisdom about how to move forward in the future for my kids i thought i knew who the pilgrims were and what i discovered was these guys are in very many ways my heros because they had enough fore site to know we would get off track one day. >> what was hear headline? >> they left us a set of principles and a secret sauce so to speak in the form of 180 tons of granite the very top of that statue her name is faith. faith is the core of that statue that has been paid for by the state of massachusetts that faith works itself out in all of these wonderful ways that provide security and blessing for all people. >> they base the philosophy on faith they gave them a sign post on how to live. you want americans to know what it was to get b

the governor issued a statement from salem saying the state police are on the scene. rich evans the head of the state police is there. they have the full cooperation of local agencies. so the state police are on the scene. and look at the row of ambulances lined up. >> again, jeff, i think the good news we have to report right now, even though two people have been shot, a gunman has been neutralized and one person is confirmed killed. we have rows and rows of ambulances parked outside of clackamas town center. right now it looks like they're not being used. so we're thankful for that, that we don't have stretchers of people being loaded out of that mall right now. we don't know if there are any more victims. we do know that people are still being escorted out of the mall right now as we speak because after these shots were fired they went into nooks and crannies, wherever they could find, and they basically hid and locked themselves in, locked themselves down. now the s.w.a.t. teams are going through the mall and clearing each little pocket of people out of the mall m

he got stuck on a bar, so he decided to settle there in new salem illinois. there he began his political career. what was the platform for his first election? proving the navigation of rivers. he actually received a patent for an invention to lift steamboats over shoals. the hula hoop of inflatable balloons. was the great invention but it was a -- invention and the only president who has one. now the north in the south, no matter how you divide the country, what have to share these rivers, these highways, and the commerce would mingle side eyesight. their destinies were woven together by this frontier of rivers. but more, the two sections shared the unimaginable vast treasure land of the american west that were just being opened up. it's not possible to separate lincoln said. and he knew that the tension between the north and the south over slavery could not be resolved by trying to separate these inseparable lands. regions. they could not be pried apart. the tension would remain. there would still be people in the north who were opposed morally to slavery an

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>> let me read the salem news essex gazette. they were talking about the boston tea party. this commodity in earnest and in the pace of about two hours broke up 342 chests and discharged their contents into the sea. a watch as i am informed was stationed to prevent embezzlement and not a single ounce of tea was suffered to be purloined by the populace. no one stole the tea. they just dumped it. >> you learn that somebody did try to pocket the tea and they were quickly seized and pummeled by the other colonists. >> their editorials make today's columns look like wimps. they used to write really tough editorials. >> this is where partisan propaganda was started. there were patriot and loyalist newspapers back then. that's where you really see the fires start. >> the book is called reporting, the revolutionary war before it was history, it was news. i love that. nice to have you with us. >> thanks for having me, soledad. >> pleasure. >>> end point is up next. if you are one of the millions of men who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are

winston-salem on the democrat's line, hello. caller: good morning. merry christmas. ambassador rice. she is a good hero because she is the one that to accept all the thed and annger on republicans that they did not want blacks to have power and they took it out on her because they were going to punish us for blaming obama. that is what the fiscal cliff is about. she was able to take it and keep her dignity. she put people higher than the position. i think god for seeing that inaction. host: this is leo. caller: good morning. merry christmas. my hero is always going to be bernie sanders from vermont. i lean toward the socialist aspect of our society. i believe it works well when one entity takes over the police or fire department. talking about the health care and retirement. bernie sort of leans the same way. he stands up to the bankers and rich ceo's. everytime i listen to bernie, he is a broken record like the republicans are. host: was it his work on the banking industry that drew your attention? caller: his concern for the poor draws my attention. nobody is talki

understand that they treat people that play jazz music in utah the same way as they treated witches in salem jordan is interested in the hornets' name. it could become the charlotte hornets. >> what's point? >> good grief. >> speaking of names, we have to point out that cyprian is wearing the real name of the washington wizards a t-shirt on, the bullets. >> washington bullets. used to be the bullet. >> yeah. they have gone downhill. from the bullits to the wizard. finally, lots of people love the smell of a freshly opened box of pizza earthens so much so they might wear it as a perfume. that notion started as a joke. >> never do that. >> i wouldn't either. >> started on pizza hut's facebook page awhile back and they are decided to go have fun with it as a joke in canada they have teamed up with a perfume maker making a limited edition pizza hut purerfume. they will give them away to fans on if a welcome back toing. >> you cannot have healthcare if you work there because it's so expensive. we are going to have frank rangeses with extra pepper own e. it literally smells like a big pizza? >> ye

and no winston-salem one was hurt. the cause -- and no one was hurt. cause of that fire is also under investigation. >>> police in emeryville are investigating an overnight homicide. the victim was shot and killed at 65th and hollow streets just before 10:00 last night. the shooting happened outside of a parked car and one of the car doors was open and a window appeared to have been shot out. we have been making calls to emeryville police this morning for more information on the victim and shooting, and we will keep you updated. >>> the last of the funerals for victims of the newtown connecticut school shooting will be held today. five funerals were held yesterday after a service for a 6-year-old dillon hawkly, his 8- year-old brother jake, released balloons for each sandy hook victim. families also said goodbye to students, grace mcdonald and olivia engel. school psychologist mary sherlock and behavioral therapist rachel devino were also laid to rest yesterday. meantime we are hearing new details about the gunman adam lanza. former classmates say he w

. >>> "the winston-salem journal."ng has dropped for the fifth consecutive year falling to a new historic low at just 18%. the study also found marijuana use remains an elevated level of about 25%. alcohol use remains historically low, but binge drinking on the rise, increasing to 24% among high school seniors. >>> and in this weekend's "parade" magazine, "les mis," hugh jackman opens up about life, acting and fatherhood. >>> with us now, chief white house correspondent, mike allen with a look at the "playbook." good morning, mike. >> good morning and happy friday. >> you're sounding a little better today, mike. let's talk about whatted exac y exactly happened to john boehner last night. the lead story this morning, "obama's dilemma." what is it? >> first an exclusive for "morning joe," the speaker's office telling us speaker boehner will go before cameras at 10:00 a.m. to talk about the road ahead. his message is going to be that president obama and the senate democratic leader, harry reid, now have a responsibility f

. >> does the modeling as salem and a recession between now and 2017? >> the modeling does include a range of franz from a mild recession to a very suggestion. preferred nature of the modeling the bucket probabilities. >> but the valuation, the model that comes up with a valuation estimate of 13.5 billion, does that assume a recession? >> it assigns probabilities to the potential for different types of recession and built the same. i'm not sure if i'm being clear -- >> what is the average economic growth rates implicit or explicit in that valuation? >> again, i can get that for you momentarily. >> my last point, senator from new jersey been a very important and passionate argument about the effects of hurricane sandy. in pennsylvania we had significant damage, but exclusively almost entirely from wind damage. millions lost power, but the damage was incomparable to the damage compounded by the water damage done along the shore. i'm looking forward to see the supplemental well-crafted and i hope properly outside because we also have a fiscal crisis of eno

markey: i thank the gentleman from salem and recognize the gentlelady from lowell. >> thank you, mr. markey. it's great to be here, although a said moment as well because we are losing not truly lose bug no longer serving on a daily basis with two remarkable colleagues with whom it has been my privilege to serve for five years. their -- they're distinguished legislators as we're hearing but they're also great friends. ms. tsongas: barney frank has been a family friend for many years. my sister-in-law was barney's press secretary in his first race for congress. and i was so proud to receive his support when i first sought this seat five years ago. he commented at the time that he was responsible for defeating the last woman who had served for massachusetts, and he wanted to help elect the next woman who was seeking to serve for massachusetts. it had been 25 years. and barney, as we've heard, has been a legend in everything he's done. i watched him from afar. i e young when he was working with kevin white. we knew who he was because even at that young age, he was very colorful and very

abdallah salem el badri, he's 72 years old and he's been there for years. i don't know where i've been for five years, but did you know -- >> i apologize in advance. i didn't. >> you could have said you did and we've been best friends, in fact. >> he's completely changed the entire operation. anyway, did a great job. >> in global market news this morning, stocks in asia, closed mixed today. investors waiting to see what comes out of the fiscal cliff negotiations and in europe, a choppy start to the trading day. investors are waiting for the results of greece's bond buyback program occurs. joe has some of the big corporate news and this one is actually a global corporate story. >> hsbc. we're talking about paying $1.9 billion in the money lawnering lapses. a brirchb lender admitting to a breakdown of controls, in a statement announcing a deferred payment. yesterday standard chartered agreed to pay $27 million agreeing that it violates sanctions against iran and two other international companies. >> if you're an international bank and you prael without gettin

my second home state georgia foreclosure prevention event of 2012 this saturday, december 8, at the salem bible church fellship hall from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. my presented, jasper williams, is the pastor. my last home safe event helped hundreds of homeowners temporarily lower their mortgage payments and i expect to help hundreds more after this weekend's event. the event is free and i hope georgians who need help will attend. for more information contact me at hankjohnson.house.gov. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. the message from the american people is loud and clear. extend the middle class tax cuts now. republicans are holding hostage tax cuts for 98% of americans and 97% of small businesses to give more tax breaks to the wealthiest americans. and once again republicans playing politics with something that will help americans get back as we wo

. >> salem, oregon, republican line. you are on the air. caller: good morning. as a college student, and i have listened to every single caller, this is an embarrassing day for our country. i am a first-time job hunter, unemployed, a college student with loans, i am embarrassed and looking at this situation. my life is going to be turned upside down because of this. legislators need to stop bickering with these comments. they need to come together and do something like this. i am embarrassed because of not -- because none of my legislators will do anything about it. >> who are your representatives? caller: [indiscernible] it is embarrassing. it was a good conversation and i said -- is there any way that you couldn't speak on the floor to this issue? he said pc would heat would do. he basically lied to my face. even though he may not think that, he embarrassed me. >> he never spoke to the issue on the floor? caller: not that i am aware of. >> florida, hello. caller: i am going to read a quote from the speech, the 2008 democratic national convention. the obama sta

like fuchsia or yellow we like to salem monday. hit the shelves in january. >> we have got the gum. >> the gum is sticking around? >> bazooka joe the comic is gone. >> i'm all right with that. >> only beaming part to the gum was the comic. >> i disagree. do you like the stalish gum. >> the first two seconds was bad and then about the next 30 seconds was good. >> right. >> that's all you get. >> then it was all bad. >> pretty much all gum is like that anyway, isn't it it? >> no. >> and then your jaw hurts. >> and that seriously. here is your temps as you are waking up. 37 degrees in minneapolis. that's above what your high temperature should be to are this time of year. incredible warm air across the country. all of the troubles have been out across parts of the west. that's going to continue. flooding concerns southern oregon down to areas around. a lot of places 10 inches of rain. couple weeks ago we had another series of storms that brought 10 inches of rain. the ground is incredibly saturated. today a slight break from the rain.