i'm bill seward. >> announcer: "early today" sports is brought to you by ice blue aqua velva. men get it. >>> lindsay lohan is apparently her own best agent. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, we're going to take you to an event that proves fat tuesday isn't just for humans. you're watching "early today." >>> well, welcome back. hope you had a nice weekend. forecast-wise, there are showers heading south of san jose. there will be a chance of a sprinkle or two during the day in san francisco. not a lot. we'll have a steadier rain developing in the northwest, especially this afternoon through this evening as that front moves on shore. tomorrow, we'll be kind of similar, unfortunately. still watching a chance of rain in the northwest. should be dry in california. a large trough over the west. that means the cooler air can funnel down through much of the west. temperatures in southern california will be a little cooler than they've been lately through this week. if you're watching on king 5 news in seattle, washington, experience love, anxiety

it is what it is, you know. >> this is my second time here at seward.me and the boyfriend lived in the same cell. we had the matching comforters and the matching jackets and whatever. we had packages come in and always have the matching set or whatever. we were a little couple, you know what i'm saying? dysfunctional but it's all right. so i don't try as hard to stay out of prison like i should. which brings me back to places like this. >> though both sam and polando talk openly about their sexual experiences in prison, their outlooks are quite different. >> of course i'm not. oh, my god. i don't want to get into my partners. but you know. i'm not going to go without. please. >> let's see. i've had relationships before in jail that were long-standing. and you know, eventually they faded away or i left. i'm not concerned with sex, i'm concerned with my life. i'm at a stage in my life where i have to look outward. >> despite their successes, the alaska prison system is facing a crisis. most facilities like spring creek are operating in maximum capacity. t

i'm bill seward. >>> lindsay lohan is apparently her own best agent. your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, we're going to take you to an event that proves that tuesday isn't just for humans. you're watching "early today." >>> well, welcome back. here's a look at your presidents' day forecast. hopefully you get to enjoy this three-day weekend. if not, you're just like the rest of us here. we are watching temperatures on the cooler side in new england. it will be a windy day. where it snowed yesterday, all that snow will melt. in areas of virginia, tennessee, and kentucky. the next system is in the middle of the country, bringing light snow to many areas. we're only expecting a couple inches here and there. nothing too major. areas around south dakota could see up to 3 inches. tomorrow colder air covers much of the country. the rain showers will continue in the ohio valley with snow showers in the northern great lakes, otherwise it looks pretty quiet. >>> well, if you're watching us on wood tv in grand rapids michigan i

but i don't think chase and seward would have gone so far in apiecing the south and the border states. and i think -- this comes to my theory of leadership, which is real. if lincoln had not spent two years apiecing kentuy, if he had mobilized 400,000 black soldiers and issued an emancipation order, given the soldiers freedom, i think the civil war would have been over two years, three years at most. and i will say again on this leadership issue, and then i'm through with it, i don't understand the historians who say his great leadership, if franklin delano roosevelt had conducted world war ii as disastrously as abraham lincoln conducted the civil war in the first two years, america would be a engineer man protectorate today. >> how many years have you been in chicago? >>h, about 47. >> how big is "ebony" magazine? >> the biggest black magazine in the world. about two million subscribers. about 10 million readers overall every month. >> and this book was published by johnson publishing? right. >> john johnson. >> yes. >> did you try to get it published anywhere else? >> no, i did not.