my name is thomas howard. my family has owned properties on the 800 block for 100 years. i have been at my location for 63 years. i am a fourth generation san franciscan and i would like to say that i am against the project for both at the height, the bolt, and the light. we want to maintain the character of this unique neighborhood and we would like to know if the board would vote no on this and if it goes through the 35 foot height limit with the setback. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello there. was preparing to make a long speech. i will make it short. jeff is a hard worker. when i was young, i would go to high school, i would work in south san francisco. i worked as a busboy. i asked, how could you be a success? you give something, you take something. i go there, i go to college. now, i come back. jeff owns a bicycle shop. i hope that you people come here to visit me, anyway, i tried to see the compromise because he built a block behind my back to build something that he struggles or con. you take away some of these lights and the privacy, especially my wife, we're lo

people like the best journalists of the area, best diplomats, people like thomas wolfe, george kennan later known for russia, howardk. smith, sinclair lewis, all these people are in and out, dorothy thompson and they can't quite get a fix on this. and why not? for two reasons. one, there is a sense in many cases that hitler is this odd to appeared he is too weird. he'll never be anybody of note. in fact, dorothy thompson, the most in a correspondent of the era goes in an interview set for a year before he takes power and says i thought it was going to make the first future dictator of germany within 50 seconds i realized i wasn't. it is the startling insignificance of this man who has the eyes of an alcoholic and all this. and on the other hand, there are some americans really early and i was determined in this book, which the name was the informal way some of the american journalists began to refer to germany in the 30s among themselves. that was something i had known. so the first people who met him as far back as 1922 a junior military and embassy called truman smith cannot a hearse correspondent thought this gu

thomas jefferson, famously employed french men, as well as irish servants. john quincy adams retained belgium. ulysses s. grant and william howard taft brought filipino to the white house when he become president in 1909. between 1860 and 1940, waves of african-american migration from the south brought an influx of new comers to the nation's capital. almost a reverse tide as we've heard from alexander this morning. related to the forced migration of blacks southward. some found jobs in the white house and established decade long careers at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. this afternoon, we are going to hear stories of a free man enterprising labor and life on the square. and a singular event often called the white house tea incident that reflect the growing tide of black contribution to economic, social and political life in washington in the 19th and early 20th centuries. first we'll hear from don graves a descendant of hotelier, who has spent decades researching his family's contributions. don called me out of the blue one day to inform me about his research and out of that conversation has grown a wonderful relationship with him wi

thomas, are you extraordinary. let me share with our viewers, if we can get aoo >>n pmb. ha rt lheki j d. >>e s emearscol ani wasn jiohigh. itas the david t. howard junior high school. >> you've been fighting for civil rights laws for years. >> for years. >> what are your objections to these voter i.d. laws? how do you see this as an attempt to stop people from registering? >> i see it being an attack on the poor, the elderly, the veterans, the seniors, the students. all of these folks cannot get voter i.d. c bblto te remb t deatad count an d etr yo coteth rht or wrong, you still couldn't vote. >> that was an extra test. >> yes, it was like a poll tax. >> poll tax. >> i remember they would pull a straw out of a broom and tell you -- ask you how many straws did you have. whether it was right or wrong, they still said you couldn't vote. i remember they used to tell us read a portion of the constitution. .f you read it perfectly, eror y cn've. soe'oto bck tohi i mn,e'otoiacto m ow. we'r n going back what we have already had in the last 100 years. >> bill fletcher, how do you respond to those who say that this really is al attempt to stop voter fraud

howard university, tom fitzgerald, fox 5 news. >>> now to the big story in sports, the cavs looking to rebound from that devastating overtime loss to the bruins game 2 first round of the playoffs, thomas hit a brick wall second period, caps finally solve him. chip one in for the goal double overtime now, and caps win the draw, deep in the bruins and puck comes free to back stroll he just buries it, 2-1. coach hunter said the win is a team effort. >> you know, they are going out, from everybody, goal tending, that is the way you have to play to do well in the playoffs, to battle and i thought tonight was definitely playoff hockey. >> well t series is now even 1 game a piece, shifts back to dc for game 3 at the verizon center. >>> two surprises out of north korea sunday, new leader makes an unexpected public speech as the military unvails a new missile, to celebrate the 100th birthday of the country's founder. >>> 100th anniversary of the sinking of the titanic a cruise ship retracing its its today and new efforts to try to save the wreck's remains we will be right back  >>> making headlines, best buy closing 50 stores this year including the one at landmark mall al