here is tubman's descendant. what was it like to stand there in place of your aunt harriet, as you call her, and receive this incredible honor? >> thank you for having me. it was overwhelming and it was just wonderful and so emotional. being able to accept something that is long overdue for her. having made application for her pension for being a spy and a scholar during the civil war. she was actually denied for that, but did receive some later as a nurse and then as a widow's pension. but to have her recognized for the role she did play in the civil war, something where she was commissioned or asked to go go down÷÷ to do that, she was just tremendous. and i just felt so happy for her and for us as a family. >> you're so right. as people recognize that, it's not something they did learn. and i know you once told cnn that you wish more people now about harriet tubman's contributions to the civil war. why do you think it's so important that people understand this part of her life and that she gave that has been gl

harriet tubman honored e. "early today" starts right now. >>> there is a sense of justice in the small town of delphien indiana after a man was found guilty of the brutal 2017 murder of two teenaged girls. a jury found 52-year-old richard allen kidnapped abigail williams and her friend liberty german and later slit their throats. the killings shocked the town and the nation. our maggie vespa was in delphi and spoke to locals about the legacy of the case. >> reporter: do you think this case will stick with this town? is sticking with this town. >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. >> if not just because of the court case but because two little girls died here. that's awful. that will always be in our hearts. >> allen made several confessions behind bars. his defense later tried to claim he was suffering from psychosis after more than a year in solitary confinement, something the jury rejected. he will be sentenced on december 20th. >>> we're getting a closer look at what donald trump's new administration had look lik

it earned her the nickname general tubman. today, the u.s.national guard made it more than just a nickname. how the legendary american was honod on thisre enslavement in 1849. then she established the underground railroad network, leading others to freedom. she then channeled those experiences as a scout, spy, and nurse by working for the union army during the civil war. among the other heroic acts, she helped guide a 150 black soldiers on a gunboat raid in south carolina. tubman also gathered intelligence for an army raid that freed 700 enslaved people. she is the first woman to oversee a u.s. military action during a time of war, but was never officially given an official rank or title until today. tubman's home state of maryland is posthumously awarding her the rank of one star brigadier brigadier general in the national guard. the ceremony was held today at the harriet tubman underground railroad state park in maryland. team usa gymnast jordan chiles is speaking publicly for the first time about her battle to reclaim that bronze medal tha

so today is all about harriet tubman.eterans day and governor wes moore of maryland made harriet tubman an honorary one-star general. her family was there. it was an incredible moment. it was a deeply moving moment, but for me especially in a time where it really feels like black women, black history, black studies is under attack this is a really important reminder of the sanctity of the importance of the significance of somebody like harriet tubman, that her husband is american history, but also that she is the truest kind of patriot because she fought for freedom, for her country and for democracy. so here's to general tubman. >> beautiful. >> here's to her. go ahead, josh. >> the exit polls, everyone's desperate to know how harris lost and why and they rely on the exit poll. the problem is the exit polls are garbage. they are not representative. they get people interested in spending time talking to an exit pollster on the way out and the samples are way too educated, so the results are always inaccurate. this stat is

you're first. >> so today is all about harriet tubman.is veterans day, and governor westmore of maryland made harriet tubman an honorary one star general. her family was there, it was an incredible moment, it was a deeply moving moment, but for me, especially in a time where it really feels like black women, black history, black studies is under attack, this is an important reminder of the sanctity of the importance of the significance of somebody like harriet tubman that her history is american history. but also that she is the truest kind of patriot because she fought for freedom, for her country, and for democracy. hears to general tubman. >> here's to her. >> the exit polls. everyone is desperate to know how harris lost and why, and they rely on the exit polls. the exit polls are garbage. they are not representative, they get people who are interested in spending time and the symbols are way too educated so the results are always inaccurate, people are throwing around the stat claiming that harris ran 10 points better with the top thi

why maryland is awarding legendary abolitionist harriet tubman the rank of general. it's tuesday, november 12th. "early today" starts right now. good morning. glad to be with you. i'm frances rivera. in just ten weeks, donald trump will retake the white house as the 47th president of the united states. and late last night we learned more about what his cabinet could look like. three sources tell nbc news that marco rubio will be selected as the new secretary of state. nbc's brie jackson joins me now from d.c. good morning, brie. what more do we know about the transition of power? >> reporter: good morning, frances. nbc news spoke with three sources familiar with this election process who said rubio is expected to lead the state department. rubio has become more aligned with president-elect trump ever since running against him back in 2016. our sources did caution that mr. trump could still change also mind. four sources also tell nbc news that florida congressman mike waltz has been chosen for national security adviser. he's an outspoken opponent of china and has agr

you can now call her general tubman. we'll discuss, coming up. >>> the one and only cnn's senior data reporter harry enten joins us because today he's talking about love and politics. is that even a real thing? president-elect donald trump feeling a lot of love. show us the numbers. >> show us the numbers. you know, he wants those senators, perhaps in recess appointments, to allow folks to get into his cabinet. and i want you to give an understanding. you know, it used to be that the republicans in the senate tolerated donald trump. now, they l-o-v- e y-o- u him. in 2016, there was just one gop senator, that was jeff sessions, who of course, then, trump through overboard later on after he joined his cabinet. this time around, look at this, the vast majority of republicans in the united states senate endorsed trump during the primary season. the bottom line is this. they tolerated him last time, they love him this time around. they're basically going to probably allow him to do whatever he wants as long as he doesn't go t

do the same harriet tubman, if you don't know, channel those experiences, she was a scout to spy and nurse for the union army during the civil war. she helped guide 150 black soldiers on a gunboat raid in south carolina and now nearly 160 years later, the reverend abolitionists, who was the first woman to oversee an american military action during a time of war has been posthumously, awarded the rank of general and it came on veterans day during a formal ceremony in maryland where tubman was made a one-star brigadier general in the state's national guard and the governor called the occasion, not just a great day for harriet tubman's home state, but for this entire nation and the ancestors will be for out. okay, calling the behind. if you listen up, if you love all things, beyonce, you can take a college course on the mega pop star. so yale university often the class and will focus on the period over 2013 self titled album through this year's cowboy carter album, the professor charts as you want students to learn about black intellectuals from the past and in the present. all right. s

tubman escorted dozens of slaves to freedom with her underground railroad during the civil war.ion army, working as a cook, a nurse, and eventually a spy. we do still have much more news ahead. >> let's get to abc seven news anchor karina nova for a look at the stories that are coming up at 5.30. karina. all right. thanks, ama and dan. tonight we're going to dig into the legal battle over oakland airport's new name, san francisco bay. oakland international airport. abc seven news reporter tim johns breaks down arguments on both sides, including the confusion. some say it's causing for travelers. plus, sports director larry beil joins me to talk about that game winning 44 yard field goal by jake moody. as we look ahead to the niners season, join us for those stories and more. at 5.30 on abc seven bay area streaming tv. >> all right, karina, thanks. and don't forget you can download the abc seven news app and head to abc seven news.com to join karina in just two minutes. >> and if you're watching us on tv world news tonight with david muir is next for sandyha patel. all of us. tha

finally, today on veterans day, harriet tubman was posthumously commissioned to the rank of brigadier general in the maryland national guard. here is maryland's governor westmore talking about tubman's legacy. >> this is a person one of the greatest marylanders we've ever known and someone who is willing to risk her own freedom, her own safety, her own life in order to help others. that is patriotism, heroism, it's only appropriate that we have a general harriet tubman. >> a long time coming, but appropriate indeed, the patriotism, the heroism of the true north star getting her title after all. thank you all so much for watching. anderson cooper 360 is next. >>> how this video

, tubman was the first woman to oversee an american military action during a time of war. during a formal ceremony today, the governor of maryland made her a one star brigadier general in the state's national guard. harriet tubman escaped slavery in 1849 and then established the underground railroad to help others escape. she went on to be a scout, a spy and nurse for the union army during the civil war. >> already had that rain this morning. it's died down now, but there's more rain potential this week in the five day. >> we'll take a peek at that and paying tribute to those who served here in the bay area, the special recognition today to veterans in the south bay, and a quick check of that monday evening commute. >> it is a holiday, so not as busy as many mondays prior, but you can still tell it's a little sluggish in that westbound direction as people make their way through berkeley and emeryville, you're watching ktvu news starting a business is never easy, but starting it eight months pregnant, that's a different story. with the chase ink card, we got up and running

so she must not be forgotten. >> there's a statue of her on cia-- at cia headquarters of harriet tubman. are there any more questions? >> i like that. one more minute, great. which question should i ask? >> so real quickly, books were -- the nazis were afraid of books, they saw them-- that's why they were burning them, confiscating them and they didn't understand the power of them, right? and at the book festival, i thought it would be great to talk about the role that books played in world war ii. >> my goodness, how much time do you have? >> a minute. [laughter] >> there's books, sherman kent, the history professor i mentioned early, the gentleman that could throw daggers better, and he believes that scholars can find out # 0 90% of what intelligence needed to know. and he proved that, and had some professors look it up, and congress thought yale was doing this for the russians and the cia tried to confiscate the entire yale library, but he proved he was right. books were put to a lot of uses during the war. among them, you know, uses in spy craft and some things were given away becau

tubman help to guide 150 black soldiers on a gunboat raid in south carolina and nearly 160 years laterionists who was the first woman to oversee an american military action during a time of war. she was posthumously awarded the rank of general. on veterans day from these animals in maryland for this and win was made a one-star brigadier general in the state's national guard. the governor called the occasion. not just a great day for 10 mins home state, but for all of this country. incredible. i mean, we're talking about remarkable women very was one. >> we want to honor our remarkable women right here in the bay. >> so we need your help to share their stories. you see the little care going as google has scanned it and then you can submit someone that's making a difference your community. you can nominate her. you can also go online to kron 4 dot com slash remarkable woman. >> 7.56 is the time right now. and coming up on the kron 4 morning news another big bay area school district is considering merging campuses. >> they say they don't have enough money. and some santas a businesses are

out though the 10s up must be a was depicted in the international tv series, bobbino and berlin. tubman was clearly winning, but the judge is called in no decision. the audience was outraged. even though the boxing association had long been under nazi control. deborah for you were suppose to get into the crowd. coleman was proclaimed german champion, but not full long. just a few days later, the nazi stripped him off his title, the reason ardent arches on jim and bulk signatures on jim and is when the books cries with joy on the on gym and is when he judges the blows as his entire behavior was on germany, and confusion in his fight with the nazis troll man, had no chance, but his resistance was unbroken. his anger led to a new form of protest for his next slide. he showed up with powdered white skin and bleached blonde hair. it caricature of the area and it was the he knew you had nothing left to lose or and he wanted to show that he could fight like an area. and as of yet this time trouble man didn't go to the blows. he offered no resistance, mocking his critics for to have somebody ov

does go through today, it's a very major step towards the allowing the states and doctors to assist tubman or the old people to die. the w correspondent, pickets, mazda in london. thank you. big. it literally is now in the fridge. all sees 5 between israel and has belong in lebanon, is really military has, won't people not to move into villages and it prohibited zone south of really tani river. thousands are still returning to their homes in southern lebanon. as the truce enters, it's the de new images show. the destruction caused by his rarely bombardments. israel says any violation of the seas 5 will be met with false. people have also been morning at mos grave. near the city of tyre, with thousands of s drive victims were buried. did have you correspond instead of mana in beverly told us more about the is very limited to or is warning. just shortly after the ceasefire agreement came into effect is where any army has published a map where it indicates it's an area that is close to the buddha. and along the border line, uh and the is really army announced this to be a restricted area for

but as i got into the tubman of the western alliance emergency committee, i'm actually sure if the russians did not have nuclear weapons, we would have been are you kicking them out? we would have but they have gifted right. so it's not the same as ever. got us to rough as president puts in reason the strength of the country is new kid, don't threaten to facilitate the us of the use of nuclear weapons to respond to an attack. then lou is widely seen as a reaction to lesson officials who were considering authorization of the ukraine to use nathan weaponry dislike deep within russian territory. somebody sent me this file, hit out some headlines about the potential new. the escalation of the conference is not joking about using nukes, the risk of nuclear armageddon has not been this high since the cuban missile crisis. i made the threats from vladimir putin. this is another way the truth to simply ups the ante, and he immediately turns to nuclear weapons vladimir person has pain that escalating his threats of nuclear retaliation in his will against 2 crime who has been making. val threats that

that is patriotism, heroism, it's only appropriate that we have a general harriet tubman. >> a long time coming, but appropriate indeed, the patriotism, the heroism of the true north star getting her title after all. thank you all so much for watching. anderson cooper 360 is next. >>> how this video of a man on a bridge led to his arrest and connection, one of two teenage girls, one of which recorded this video and helped capture her killer. >>> the president-elect asked florida congressman mike waltz to be his national security adviser. congressman waltz is a decorated green beret and active combat vet. he named earlier today congressman lee zeldin to run the environmental protection agency. candidate trump campaigned against wind power and electric vehicles and promised to cancel many epa regulations. the league of conservation voters, an environmental advocacy group said as a congressman zeldin supported what they considered pro environment bills 14% of the time. over the weekend the president-elect named tom homan border czar. homan served as acting director of immigration and custom

and also the person that when you reminded me we talked about the photos in my book, harriet tubman,n american history is one of the greatest example paul's of the power of being an inconspicuous and under. and she basically invented, you know, on her own the art of exfiltration, exfiltrating and slave of americans from the american south, you know, to free north. no training, no instruction. she is just the most remarkable example of what women in world war two would eventually do for airmen as well. and so she must not be forgotten. and there's a there's a statue of her there's a statue of her on cia at cia headquarters. now. statue? yes. are any more questions? how? oh. oh, i got one more minute, grace. oh, my goodness. which question should i ask? so will quickly books were the nazis were afraid of books, right? they saw them as that's why they were burning them and, confiscating them. but they didn't really understand the power of them right. can you talk sense? right. the book festival i thought would be really great to talk about the role books played in world war two. oh, my

making her name in hollywood with performances that include an oscar-nominated lead role as harriet tubmanicked." >> she can't wait. she asked, when is the premiere? when can i come? what should i wear? i need to get my outfit together. it happens she managed to pick pink and green materials to wear. >> amazing. >> so sweet. >> pink goes good with green. >> goes well with green. >> it so does. >> pink is for glinda, the good witch, played by grammy-winning pop star ariana grande. >> the first time we meet, she comes to my house. we just talk, on my floor just chatting. the second time was for dinner and then dinner finishes and we all gather around the piano, and that's the first time we sing. and that, for us, is a really big moment. we can really do this together, not just as actresses but as singers, too. ♪♪ >> this truly was a collaborative effort with you two. >> it couldn't have been any other way. both of us also knew we wanted more than just this working relationship, to build friendship outside of it, which is what we have now. >> i love the idea, and i don't know how common this

there was nobody there who was not a trump supporter, at least of the dozen or so people and harriet tubmanh the numbers. >> how they've changed since. it is unbelievable. unbelievable. you know, there's sometimes they'll look at data points, they go, whoa and this is one of those points because take a look at men under the age of 25. compare how donald trump did four years ago versus how he did this past election cycle. four years ago, he lost men under the age of 25 by 20 points. look at that data now. donald trump won them by two. i went all the way back into the record archives. you know, i love going through those spreadsheets. you sometimes go to your office is in the record archive. that's exactly right. yes. my my, my life is an archive. i'll give you an offer i know who knew. and you have to go all the way back since 2000 to find a republican candidate who won among men under the age of 25, before donald trump. so it was truly a record setting performance for him. that was george w. bush back in 2000. he beat al gore. you remember that election? yes sure. yeah. meredith, is it clea

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making her name in hollywood with performances that include an oscar nominated lead role as harriet tubmanck home in london erivo's proud mom is downright giddy about "wicked." >> she can't wait. she asked, when is the premiere? when can i come? what should i wear? i need to get my outfit together. it just so happens she managed to pick pink and green materials to wear. >> amazing. >> so sweet. >> pink goes good with green. >> goes well with green. >> it so does. >> pink is for glinda, the good witch, played by grammy winning pop star ariana grande. >> the first time we meet she comes to my house, we just talk. we were on my floor just chatting. the second time we get together is at jon's house. he has a dinner. and then dinner finishes and we all gather around the piano, and that's the first time we sing. and that, for us, is a really big moment because we can really do this together not just as actresses but as singers, too. ♪♪ >> this truly was a collaborative effort with you two. >> it couldn't have been any other way. i think both of us also knew we wanted more than just this working

and also the person that when you reminded me we talked about the photos in my book, harriet tubman,n american history is one of the greatest example paul's of the power of being an inconspicuous and under. and she basically invented, you know, on her own the art of exfiltration, exfiltrating and slave of americans from the american south, you know, to free north. no training, no instruction. she is just the most remarkable example of what women in world war two would eventually do for airmen as well. and so she must not be forgotten. and there's a there's a statue of her there's a statue of her on cia at cia headquarters. now. statue? yes. are any more questions? how? oh. oh, i got one more minute, grace. oh, my goodness. which question should i ask? so will quickly books were the nazis were afraid of books, right? they saw them as that's why they were burning them and, confiscating them. but they didn't really understand the power of them right. can you talk sense? right. the book festival i thought would be really great to talk about the role books played in world war two. oh, my