when she was romanced by william sprague, salmon p. chase at first disapproved as sprague was rumored to be a libertine with a well-known weakness for alcohol. chase did not care that sprague had more money than sense and was pleased when the courtship cooled after many months of speculation. when chase's protege james garfield came to washington from ohio in the autumn of 1862, he stayed with the chases and became a stimulating companion for kate. he escorted her everywhere, so much so that back in ohio lucretia crete garfield his wife wrote inquis sitly. you and miss kat are taking dinners out. is miss kate a very charming, interesting young lady? i may be jealous if she is. garfield's wife was right to be suspicious because whether or not he crossed the line with kate chase during this period we have evidence he was involved in an extramarital affair with a new york tribune reporter lucia gilbert calhoun, a widow one year kate chase's junior and a decade younger than garfield. as for kate, perhaps being scire squired in public was m

when she was romanced by william sprague, salmon p. chase at first disapproved as sprague was rumored to be a libertine with a well-known weakness for alcohol. chase did not care that sprague had more money than sense and was pleased when the courtship cooled after many months of speculation. when chase's protege james garfield came to washington from ohio in the autumn of 1862, he stayed with the chases and became a stimulating companion for kate. he escorted her everywhere, so much so that back in ohio lucretia crete garfield his wife wrote inquis sitly. you and miss kat are taking dinners out. is miss kate a very charming, interesting young lady? i may be jealous if she is. garfield's wife was right to be suspicious because whether or not he crossed the line with kate chase during this period we have evidence he was involved in an extramarital affair with a new york tribune reporter lucia gilbert calhoun, a widow one year kate chase's junior and a decade younger than garfield. as for kate, perhaps being scire squired in public was m

sprague rs rear admiral to go east to the wind. rders all carriers to launch planes. and calculates he might have 15 minutes to go. before he's lucky. a nice swim in the philippines sea. 27 knots.can make can make 27 to 30. commander evans and his you'll see in the next slide are in the trailing the circular of isposition fleeing east, the japanese bearing down from 350 and true. this point in his career, he's a product of many life on theoduct of oklahoma indian territory to get his ambition to escape to the wilder world. he's a product of the naval the my where he learns pride of sea service. he's the product of 18 years in the fleet, to be sure. important the most thing he's been influenced by is the recent combat experience in the java sea. february of 1942, as i indicated, he was onboard the alden. he never forgot how the engines hold t powerful enough to that ship and her company at the admiralthe formation as karl dorman took it to battle in the battle of the sea. too slow to make it an effective run.edo they tried, fired, ran low on forced to withdraw in the f

along the way, admiral sprague has ordered attack. they pull out of the antiaircraft disposition, form a column, and head into the japanese. heading north, they cross paths with the johnston going south returning to rendezvous. they are stunned how badly she has been hit. gun shields are torn away. by any measure, the ship is entitled to call it a day. but evans has a different understanding of his duty. as the other crews watch dumbstruck, evans throws over the rudder, takes his limping ship with those in to lend gunfire support to the torpedo run. he's having a second run at the japanese. we are about 45 minutes into the fight now. the naval high command is in a stir. thomas kinkaid is making calls on the radio to halsey asking for assistance. in time, admiral nimitz of pearl harbor will intercept some of these and ask halsey about the whereabouts of the battleships he thought were defending the san bernadino strait. halsey is to the north chasing the japanese carriers, long history and through the japanese naval air arms. he finall

you can see, philadelphia firefighters on scene this morning sprague this building with water and thatng up on the tree outside, very cold morning to be out of your home. now, we just spoke to the deputy fire chief here who tells us

you can see, philadelphia firefighters on scene this morning sprague this building with water and that ice building up on the tree outside, very cold morning to be out of your home. now, we just spoke to the deputy fire chief here who tells us the roof has partially collapsed. crews working outside of a collapse zone with a possibility of further collapse. so again, very much an active scene here on err it street in frankford. now there is fire started just before 1:00 in the morning here in the 1100 block, three-story, brick vacant apartment building, fire officials tell us the fire started on the second floor in the back, because it is a vacant building this fire is being considered suspicious. there was actually another fire here one week ago, the fire marshall still investigating. meantime it took crews two hours to get this fire under control this morning, and dozens of firefighters continue to work to extinguish the blaze. now, eight people from one of the neighboring homes had to be evacuated at zero as a precaution, many staying with family tonight, will be allowed back into th

now over on 309, over at the pa turnpike, you can see some ponding there on the roads, some water sprague up from the cars as they drive on by, southbound moving along great, still, northbound doing the same. but we do have some over night work out in new jersey, 295, in both directions, near route 168 until about 6:00 a.m. so another hour or so there. you can expect some clean up, and until about 6:00 a.m., as well, route 168 at ferry avenue also out in bellmawr, new jersey. 202, from route 30 into the schuylkill expressway northbound, still 12, 15 minutes, schuylkill expressway eastbound from the blue route into the vine street expressway. >> community comes together following last week's shooting rampage in montgomery county. hundreds gathered at souderton area high school to remember ninth grader nina flick, and pray for her brother, anthony's recovery. police say bradley stone murdered nina and her five relatives on december 15th. seventeen year old anthony, survived the attack. >> one of the strongest kids i know. and, you know, i can't even begin to imagine, you know, what it must

residual delay, some small back up there as the highway has fortunately though reopened, fire police spragueater to get the fire out. over on 676, out in new jersey accident right-hand lane, police activity on the scene, one car completely overturned, another car crashed into the guards rail there, and everybody squeezing by toward the ben franklin bridge where you can see a loft slow going there, police activity and some backups. diana back over to you. >> thanks, jess. near miss for reporter covering a story about a shooting as bullets wiz by. >> hardest question ... >> sean's camera was rolling as multiple shots narrowly missed him, the woman he was interviewing, working on follow up story to another shooting that happened last week, delancey said i could make out three to four young men in the distance, but he couldn't clearly see who had the gun. >> i heard the first shot, i knew he can actually two it was, it was only when i got hine the car that i realized how close it was because could you hear that zip. >> delancey and the woman he was interviewing were not injured. >> in the health