, and the norm would be cooking and cleaning and taking care of children, and sometimes if they got lucky, becoming a school teacher or a nurse, if they got the education. in bessie's case, she had very meager beginnings. she loved school. she walked to a one-room schoolhouse every day, to and from about a mile each way, and she excelled, especially in mathematics and science, which is the cornerstone of aviation. >> my teacher would say this is one of the most important lessons you are ever going to learn in life. don't pay no attention tour circumstances, she said, because learning is an inside out job. it has everything to do with what's in here and hardly anything at all has to do with your circumstances. >> bessie finished school and continued her studies on her own with the help of a traveling library r that led into her acceptance into college and she attended the school now known as langston university in oklahoma. bessie's stick to it at tiewtd was legendary among family members. >> my mom said she was a very determined person, that she had a dream and a goal, and the skies was t

the creation of caliphate. is this rapid changes. cultural and religious norms that worries many of the country's liberals were not really bribery teaches social sciences of kyrgyzstan the most prestigious university oh. she says she was a strong supporter of religious freedom until she visited her home village last year had left there behold it then they say when you live there we didn't have a mosque now there are three all built by foreign donors as i was walking past one of the mosques and i saw three young women all covered in black and i wanted to come up to them and say look around you can do you so much with your life but i held myself back because who might tell the many think a minute later they came up to me and started saying sister don't turn away from and that moment i understood that my country has changed it's now a country where i can't tell anyone how to live their life but muslims feel they can be delivered we're not of fears that if muslims in kurdistan are given full really just freedom it would be just a matter of time before other basic ri

>>erica: hartford the mid- 70s will not be the exception later this afternoon, they will be the norm. here is a live look at conditions from the golden gate. patchy fog developing along the coast. as i walked into the weather headlines you will see that we are dealing with high clouds. temperatures are actually running on the warmer side this morning and will continue without warming trend as we headed to the afternoon. as we headed to the evening clear conditions it temperatures back out into the 40's. the big numbers this morning are in the '50s. we are already off to a warm start this morning to you will certainly want to dress in layers. future cast 4 decks widespread fifties around the bay area it creeping into the low 60s for some north bay spots. as we head into the afternoon, by 2:00 p.m. the yellow does translate into most locations seeing 70 degree weather. oakland could reach 72. the same for hayward later this afternoon. morgan hill could see some upper 70's. santa rosa could reach 74. a degree warmer than that for concord later this afternoon. here is a look at your 7 day

you got nowhere to go but down. 80 in february, we get them but it is not the norm. to the weekend, cooler with clouds. no rain to speak up. wind advisory in effect till 10:00. winds continue to gust in the hills and in the fire zone. the winds are still blowing. they will taper off tonight. gusty winds relax as the low- pressure system to the system drops and weakens it. temperatures drop too. temperatures trend down for the weekend. they are down into the low 60s. starting up here, upper 70s. even though it is a cool down it will be mild for your weekend. friday, rain is north. saturday, rain is north. sunday, few clouds. that is part of the cool down. monday, crazy. look at the rain, up there. tuesday and wednesday, more of the same. highs tomorrow, cooler. more clouds in the forecast. winds shift does it. matchy coastal fog -- patchy coastal fog. that compression, the sinking air, that is what is happening. we get high fire danger. winds come northwest it is a relaxed wind so temperatures fall. >> bottom line, no rain. >> nothing really. not what we need. we need

this may become the norm and not the exception. >> sad when $3.43 is cheap. >> this is considered cheap because other places are much more. >> he goes to wal-mart to buy the cheapest gas in the area. >> i come from baltimore maryland. >> the average price is $3 to 35 cents. but many places are more than that. experts say that this is nothing. >> they predict a $4.25 by april. >> by memorial day this could be $5. they may have to get rid of their truck if this happens. it costs almost $90 to fill this up. >> we used to go visit my parents on the weekends, and this is about 130 miles. >> i cut back on what i do for fun, going to the movies -- >> the price of gas has the chance to stop the recovery dead in its tracks. >> it was $1.37 a gallon when obama came in, and now it is almost $4. >> republicans are making a big deal about gas prices, saying that the present is not doing enough for other sources of oil. in georgetown -- abc 7 news. >> next, the latest craze on univesityversity campuses. energy shots. we will look at inhaled caffeine. >> and the avalanche at a popular ski resort. >> t

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. >> it's not a poll that is the norm for truth. spel that is the norm for truth. >> reporter: churches are exempt from the mandate. however, cardinal donald world of the archdiocese of washington says forcing hospitals and universities jeopardizes -- proponents of the mandates say it's a matter of health. >> yes, this is a women's issue that affects not only women, but also men who are women's partners and having children. it's a family issue. >> reporter: the national organization association of women of virginia say the catholic church and politicians are forgetting who this is really about, women. in washington, d.c., erica gonzalez, news 4. >>> voter support from women's rights groups and their backers may work in favor of the president as he prepares to enter the november election. >>> with prince william overseas the duchess of cambridge made her first solo appearance representing the royal family. last night kate middleton was spotted at the national portrait gallery in london. this was considered a trial run for the princess

has his mind set on his beliefs which aren't really the norm of any known society that i know of. sears very vividly. because so many of the correctional officers had dealt with him in the 20 years he had been locked up there. people kind of lowered their voices when they talked about joe sears. >> as a result of fights, intimidation and other rule violations, sears has spent most of the past 15 years in new mexico's highest security unit, level six. >> there have been times, yes, that i got into a fight over certain things, you know, whether it was, you know, a couple guys jumping on me because they didn't like what i said or who i was hanging out with or where i was working or maybe they wanted the job position or something. who knows, you know? maybe they just disliked me for the color of my skin or my attitude or, i don't know, you know. >> sears was convicted on several charges including robbery, kidnapping and rape. he first entered the penitentiary in 1983 on a 36-year sentence. >> i remember him working out in f-2, our recreation area, lifting hundred-pound dumb bells like

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this is the exception and not the norm. it is mainly foggy to start the day. mid-50's for highs this afternoon. it will be a pleasant afternoon. you'll notice the gusty winds. we look ahead into the weekend. and not a bad day tomorrow. partly cloudy. sunday looks more likely that the storm will be affecting us. we have a higher chance of seeing so. the question is, how much? we simply do not know. it is something we are going to hone in on over the next 12-24 hours. that's good to be set. >> it must be worse the inner lives time to go up to 270 and over to the icc and up to randolph road are bailing out in taking the east west highway pirie to the inner loop is closed. you are watching all traffic that must exit onto connecticut ave. a truck and a vehicle involved in a fatal crash. right now there documenting this correct. did the inner loop will be closed for an undetermined amount of time. traffic is forced to exit at connecticut ave. this will impact the outer loop. you will get a clearer view of traffic moving on the inner side. if you travel through chevy

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so trying to get to somewhere between $2 and $2.50 is closer to the historic norm. think of it as the pre-obama norm. >> the president is keeping a close eye on how much you're paying at the pump. an ap poll this week show the majority of americans disapprove of his handling of the rising gas prices. ashley morrison is here with more on that. good morning, ashley. >> good morning, betty. as we're seeing, gas prices are becoming a bigger election issue and they went up again yesterday. according to aaa, the average cost of a gallon of regular rose 3 cents. it's now $3.61 a gallon. in florida, a key swing state in the election, the price is even higher at $3.69 a gallon. president obama says republicans don't have the answer for lowering gas prices. >> anybody who tells you that we can drill our way out of this problem doesn't know what they're talking about or just isn't telling you the truth. >> some analysts predict gas prices could go as high as $4.25 a gallon by the end of april. >>> overseas markets, any key nikkei rose a half a percent and hong kong's hang seng

while novel today, tiny two-bit dukedoms like this were once the norm. dieval italy -- like most of europe before the rise of modern nation states -- was a collection of independent, little san marino-style city states -- many of them no more than fortified towns on hills.

the norm are. by no means am but a boy a lot of my friends live in but i say i'll tell the girls my father is sick and then at me or my mother is sick or my grandma is no more and hello do i get better but usually if she has slept was a guy before he asks for money to sort of problem out get up when you are definite i sense elsewhere. usually when i get a woman she'll want to see my place. you know call my friend and tell him to put my things in his place my d.v.d. player sound system everything has to be moved. to make it seem like i have nothing then she'll give me money to buy this amount of. no usually she gives me money if it's for a d.v.d. player i'll put mine back for a t.v. put my t.v. back. in the woman by an. after. i have nor have a relationship with you who are you like. well the second australian woman paid for my motorcycle so i don't know you're having problems now because she has gotten quite old secure science i'm starting to see things differently could save me it's time i called i

twenty eight percent are women but many of these twenty eight percent belong to the norm. so about their women as important delegates or appointed by the warlords or seniority that you send some of their women into government and so. and today's women's point of view. i work in the news editor an office of radio most day and i present a show for women transmitted by the radio station our program talks about different subjects mostly accounts on the condition of women in herat and their activities. are i started thinking when i was nine years old or fifty years my work has been to weave carpets and no hope i have lived alone for six years i have three children two girls and one boy and this is a particularly difficult period for us but that let's talk about the development of women in society i have complete is a number of cinema to graphic projects. because we have money. money to argue a. t.v. station and argue official and also a newspaper. or magazine. monthly. we have money and also a programme about women growth of oklahoma ok and that's why women and people know about

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professionals and corporate managers, the 40-hour work week is history. 60-to-80-hour work weeks are now the norm the simplest answer is, because we can. the digital revolution means cell phones, wireless internet, and handheld computers like the blackberry allow us to work anywhere, and we do 24/7. >> okay, you can hear me now? >> it's 7:00 a.m., pacific time, and joe hurd is still in bed. but this 36-year-old silicon valley entrepreneur has already made two phone calls over the internet... >> that's good. >> to clients overseas. >> have you ever heard of a company called acl wireless based in india? >> he's checked emails on his blackberry and sent half a dozen ims, instant messages, from his laptop. >> i just emailed you the link. >> for joe and his wife christina mireles, new technology means their workday isn't 9:00 to 5:00. it's 5:00 to 9:00. >> because we have wireless access, you can work wherever. >> we can be in the kitchen. we can be in our bedroom. we can be here in the living room. >> with a masters and a law degree each, they're not exactly underachievers. joe logs 12-to-15-hour day

but that's a departure from what has been the norm in this country for decades. the last point i would make on this, as recently as 2007 the current tax regime generated more than 18% of gdp in revenue to the government, and a deficit of only 1.2% of gdp. a deficit that was adding to the debt at a rate slower than the economy was growing, and therefore, establishing that goal, what should be our goal of debt to gdp ratio that would be declining. >> yes. >> i'll yield, mr. chairman. >> let me pick up on the point because i think it's hugely important, and this is where we have a difference of opinion. average revenue over 40 years, about 18% of gdp. i think 18.1%. the problem with that is, there have been only been five times we have balanced in the last 30 years. every time we've balanced, revenue was not at 18 or 19%. revenue was at 19.6%, 19.7%, 19.8%, 20.6%. and that's before the demographic time bomb that's going on in this country. the aging of the baby boom and that's not a projection. they're born, they're alive today, they'll be eligible for medicare and s

council member says it's premature to call for changes after incidents he says are isolated and not the norm. right now the naperville community is in mourning and i don't think this kind of action as appropriate. >> douglas krause says he will address this issue at a city council meeting on tuesday when several other council members we talk to are not convinced that changing the rules would have prevented what happens over the weekend as for frankie's blue room it remains closed. >> police are investigating the death of a man who body was found in lake michigan this morning a woman marching along the lakefront spotted the body of ron 1030 this morning and called 911 when rescuers arrived they saw the man and the water near the upper wall in the 5600 block of north lake shore drive. >> to sell one victim near the rocks and we deployed to divers for the rescue. the man was taken to washington memorial hospital where he was pronounced dead and his identity has not yet been released and an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause of death. illinois state police shutdown part by 57 after

so trying to get between $2 and $2.50 is closer to the norm. think of it as the preobama norm. >> washington state's caucus will be held march 3. the owners of a tourist bar pseudotheir landlord in their fight against eviction. they were handed a eviction notice in december, giving them 90 days to get out. today they sued for breach of contract. the lease allows them to stay till the building is renovated or demolished. >> many people hung out here and now through what we allege to be trickery, they are being asked to terminate this tremendous old historical establishment. >> an attorney for the landlord says the operators knew the owner has the right to end the lease on short notice. >>> the number of people filing jobless claims remains at low. 351,000 people filed claims last year. that is the same as the week before. the figures provide evidence the job market is continuing to improve. california had the biggest decrease, down 8500 from the previous week. san francisco mayor is leading an effort to make housing more affordable. he wants to i

when tiger woods was in his prime, the comebacks in the final round were the norm. s have changed. down four shots, he fell back instead of charging ahead, allowing his closest rival phil mickelson to surge to the top. to public beach. tiger and phil playing together. disaster for tiger on number 7. he misses par. another missed putt. 7, 8, 9 all bogies. his only bright spot came on the 12th hole. look at this, that tiger of old. he finished plus 3 for the day. here is phil mickelson. this is a long putt for par. phil looking more like tiger than tiger. phil answers the call again on 15. here is another long putt. 8 under. 64 for phil mickelson, finishing at 17 under. woods was 9 shots back. phil mickelson becomes the ninth player to record fo40 career wins. the capitals end up losing to the rangers. the final was 3-two. here is a john back with a look at the 7 day after this.

large mortgages were the norm. now, many are paying the price. >> the government lets banks charge of 20% interest. a single mother is just one day late with her paynt, theank can demand payment in full. it is sad, but that is the way it is here in spain. >> antonia lost her battle against the bank. after she divorced last year, she could not meet her mortgage. the only thing left is a small parcel of land. she is a trained nurse with five grown children. now, for the past two months, she has been living in this tiny mobile home. >> this is my little doll house. i have set things up here, and i'm trying to be satisfied with it. >> i use bottled water for my coffee. if i want to take a bath, i go to one of my children, or i stop by the hospital before work. same with my laundry. i collect rainwater, and what i've got enough, i wash and rinse my clothes. >> she plans to raise chickens and plant a small vegetable garden here someday, but even these modest dreams might soon be out of reach. >> it is bad enough that i'm

but basically i think they were pretty much the norm. e japanese-americans, after the war they didn't talk about the camp experience. so, other than knowing that it had occurred, i was not aware of the specifics of it. when i started asking relatives, neighbors, or, you know, my parents' friends, what else would they have that was made in camp, they were reaching into their garages, into their sheds. i grew up in lodi, california, which is wine country, and they were coming up with things that were still wrapped in newspaper from 1945. still in boxes from 1945. and they handed it over. so, obviously this was something when they got back to the war and they were trying to re-establish their lives, this was a period that they really didn't want to think about. so, they just stored it away, the way my parents stored the bird pin and other objects away. and as i -- as the objects were handed over to me and i -- you know, it made me much more interested in learning what the camp experience was about. unfortunately, by then most -- a lot of the

we think of the norm as 3,000, but there is a big gap between the size of us now and the size then. so there is intimacy but the home location for martin. he went to chapel every tuesday. he heard dr. mays speak on those occasions. one of his most moving experiences was hearing mortechai johnson speak but we'll leave that to one side. he would have been deeply influenced by mays but i thought the closest connection would be with thurman. there is of course the dramatic development when he was staffed by this deranged -- stabbed by this deranged woman and he came within spitting distance. of departing to a better place, fortunately didn't. but he was visited in thurman in hospital. thurman acted in some degree as a mentor at that stage. he drew from a number of different sources. most especially i would have said from that boston connection and one which led in the direction of worker-priest orientation. >> thurman's there -- >> no, no, no. >> he's at boston. >> dean of the chapel at boston. >> right. >> and thurman and mays aren't here at the same time dr. king is here. >> no, no. >

while it is not the norm, it is a bellwether. pain at the pump. >> it's probably $10 more a tank than it was last week. >> reporter: the average price for a gallon of regular gasoline now tops $4 a gallon. this station getting close to $5. commuters have never seen prices so high so early in the year. patience is running on empty. >> i'm going to start riding a bike if it goes higher than that. >> reporter: californians aren't the only ones emptying their wallet to fill up the tank. on the east coast prices are surging toward $4 a gallon. parts of the midwest hovering near $3.50. no state is lower than wyoming at $3.03. while in hawaii, they pay the most, outspending california at nearly $4.25. analysts say three reasons are driving the early spike at the pump. >> the perfect storm, the juggernaut we are facing in rising gas prices is, one, the geopolitical issues in iran and elsewhere. the second would be investors and speculators who are clearly trying to buy oil and own it. third would be a number of refinery closings that are

important to remember that for the most part though a couple things for the most part growth is the norm of the economy recessions tend to be rare and then there's the only thing i think about two thousand and eleven think about all the different kinds of us so there was the european crisis it was earlier in the year the nuclear crisis there was a tie floods later in the year that was the oil spike due to the arab spring and the economy came out of it pretty impressively so think about what two thousand live and let them look like without all these sort of bizarre interruptions. if sage goes twelve you know looking a lot quieter in europe you know you don't want to knock and you know really know what the future's going to hold but in no way are you so true testament to the resilience of the u.s. economy right now and with all the shots against it oh i didn't even mention this our debt ceiling and the confidence sharpened in the summer when you think of all the shots the u.s. economy has taken in the last twelve months i actually think this is something pretty impressive and that was joe

i mean, i think that it died because of a shift in the norms of capitalism. it's the same reason steel mills died in the midwest. they 5% quarterly profit instead of 15%. so let's figure out ways tody vest the workers of their pension and manufacture our steel in japan and financial alize the economy. there's only one way of thinking how profit works. not enough to have a set of multiple stakeholders, the communi community you're answererable too, in the case of a newspaper, the civic public that you're ald i addressing. there's only one model of value. and this a broad sense, and in a sense it's a shift away from lucism in its broadest sense. >> aren't we in danger here of playing -- being nos damagic a little bit? after all, capitalism is a creative system and inevitably young people especially were going to adopt it and businesses would have to adapt to it. i hear all the time of rich individuals not unlike luce just spending $5 million on a new website and hiring ten people on their website. now we can say the quality of the journalism is not as good as it

and quarter mile visibility, certainly the norm in places, in the 39-degree reading for antioch, 37 santa rosa, and 48 in san francisco. so there is the fog as it lays out in the central valley tomorrow. warmest in the afternoon. tomorrow with temperatures in the upper 60s,s low 70s. high pressure over the top of us now. and that high pressure will give way on friday to this weather system which will increase the clouds, dropping temperatures just a bit of course bringing a slight chance of a sprinkle. that is on friday, is it a big deal. not a big deal. tomorrow will be a warm day, friday, numbers cooling down because of the system coming in. thursday, high pressure firmly in charge, watch the clouds increase, weak sprinkles moving into our area, friday afternoon and then into friday evening. not a big deal at all. it wouldn't slow you down or be a project stopper if you have outside activities or plans. 11:00, maybe snow flurries if you're driving to lake tahoe. but again, no issues with the passes, 68 in concord, 65 in brentwood. and 66 in antioch, south, 69 in san jose, 70 in morgan h

one forgets aside from haiti, gradual emancipation was the norm for emancipation in the 19th century. that's what people looked at. they thought that's exactly what they were doing and would not compromise about that one bit. at least lincoln and his republican party would not do so. this is an anti-slavery legacy which is deeply, deeply important and i think has been kind of shoved aside to the extent to which only the most what jim calls the purist idea of the radicalism of equality comes into play as the only worthy one. jim recognized something about this or has recognized something about this transition in his own work. looking back to 1994 he observed had lincoln done what abolitionists demanded when they demanded it, there would have been no union victory and no amendments to the constitution to free the slaves and grant them equal rights for which the abolitionists fought. without slighting the abolitionists contributions he can see more clearly the potentially disastrous drawbacks of their political naivete, the engines of social justice let alone common people including slav