. >> reporter: most every day charlotte tidwell can be found delivering food to people in need in ft. smith, arkansas, never slowing down. she's a retired nurse and widow raised in poverty who learned from her mother to serve others. >> i have the obligation to serve them. and to serve them in a compassionate, respectful way. >> reporter: charlotte runs a large volunteer food bank that serves nearly a half million free meals a year. >> she's just cool, man. she treats you right. >> reporter: she feeds 7,000 people a month paying for most of it with her own pension money. >> i don't worry about the money. i give it away. >> reporter: with her unpaid staff, this 69-year-old works six days a week. >> i have those join me lifting, mark. >> reporter: you want me to help you lift it? okay. >> i have those that enjoy this. thank you. >> reporter: on this day she's delivering fruits, vegetables, meat and other food to low-income residents at a senior center. >> we thank the lord for this lady here. mrs. tidwell, for helping us out in a time of need. >> reporter: she also delivers food and kin

alford: tidwell. >> didn't they imply that booth had a strong connection to confederate intelligence? dr. alford: yes, they did. in fact, the old point in the book -- the whole point of the book was to see what extent that related to jefferson. i looked hard for that but i did not see anything like that. it is obvious that booth worked with payroll confederate people like thomas harvin who went back-and-forth across the river. at 1.i remember john's arrest -- at oine point john surma at surratt -- john dr. alford: -- surratt said, should we check this with the confederates? [laughter] they may hit us over the head and turn this over to the yanks. that is something the as birders talked about. -- conspirators talked about. >> you describe booth's father as troubled. booth went into his father's profession. i'm interested about his attitude. did he reject his father or did he keep a compassionate view? dr. alford: is used were mixed and not very public. i found a couple of examples. actors are very clanish and isolated. particularly in that time because they had an odd occupation by the

i want to commend the department of agriculture chief tidwell in particular for these collaboratives because they are vital to the health and vitality of our country's forests and they are a solid foundation for wildfire response. i'd also like to thank the president and the forest service for supporting the bipartisan efforts of senator crapo and i and the similar one that is underway in the house because to me the bottom line is if we can pass the legislation that i've described here today and shore up our priority as being prevention while at the same time making better use of existing money by saying that the mega fires you deal with from the disaster fund that gets us off to the races in terms of having a more sensible system for fighting wildfire. then if we support the collaboratives that i've just described that are really flowering across the country we're seeing more of them, we're seeing bigger collaboratives that's the kind of policy that helps us get out in front of what is going to be in my view, mr. president, another dangerous fire season. just crossing our fingers an

alford: tidwell. >> didn't they imply that booth had a strong connection to confederate intelligence? dr. alford: yes, they did. in fact, the old point in the book -- the whole point of the book was to see what extent that related to jefferson. i looked hard for that but i did not see anything like that. it is obvious that booth worked with payroll confederate people like thomas harvin who went back-and-forth across the river. at 1.i remember john's arrest -- at oine point john surma at surratt -- john dr. alford: -- surratt said, should we check this with the confederates? [laughter] they may hit us over the head and turn this over to the yanks. that is something the as birders talked about. -- conspirators talked about. >> you describe booth's father as troubled. booth went into his father's profession. i'm interested about his attitude. did he reject his father or did he keep a compassionate view? dr. alford: is used were mixed and not very public. i found a couple of examples. actors are very clanish and isolated. particularly in that time because they had an odd occupation by the

so we've had tidwell 20 storms the last, nuisance storms, just like what we went through last night. the rain will wash it all away melt a lot of it as we get ready for the next batch. but that melting is going to cause ponding, and some flooding, and the clogged drains, we will find out the hard way today where they're located. west on the pa turnpike right near the valley forge interchange an accident. also find delays along 55, in south jersey, southbound right near route 47. there is no cross traffic on the boulevard at front street. traffic lights are out. it is pothole season. we have potholes galor on the 59 northbound off ramp, to 291, penndot hasn't been able to make the repairs because of the weather so that's slowing folks down, if you are headed north on 95, trying to get up toward the airport, you are going to be hitting the brakes before you even get there. but don't worry planes aren't going anywhere. that is average delay of about a one-hour 15 minutes on both arrivals and departures, at the airport because -- >> winter delayed this year by couple of months, boy here

alford: tidwell. >> didn't they imply that booth had a strong connection to confederate intelligence? dr. alford: yes, they did. in fact, the old point in the book -- the whole point of the book was to see what extent that related to jefferson. i looked hard for that but i did not see anything like that. it is obvious that booth worked with payroll confederate people like thomas harvin who went back-and-forth across the river. at one point john surratt said should we check this with the confederates? [laughter] they may hit us over the head and turn this over to the yanks. that is something the conspirators talked about. >> you describe booth's father as troubled. booth went into his father's profession. i'm interested about his attitude. did he reject his father or did he keep a compassionate view? dr. alford: is used were mixed and not very public. i found a couple of examples. actors are very clanish and isolated. particularly in that time because they had an odd occupation by the standards of 1860 and one part of the religious part of the country looked down on. a lot of people wo