vanderbilt. this was the first real mansion on bellview avenue in new port, island. it was built by richard hunt, the same architect who built the breakers several years later. he was the most well recognized well-respected architect really in the world. he had studied in paris, the first american to do so and he was much sought after. this house was built really by alba vanderbilt with richard hunt. it was a 39th birthday present from her husband william to her and alba was a great rancofile. she lived in paris right during the civil war. she came from mobile, alabama. and living in paris she became quite well informed about french art and architecture. so she had a very strong hand in what this building was going to look like and how it was is going to be decorated and it's very much in the french style, designed to look like a facsimile and we'll see in a minute that many of these remembrances of her paris experience comes into play as alba designs and built this house. we are in the gold room

vanderbilt. this is consuelo's bedroom. here is this young woman who is crazy about another man, not the duke of marlboro. her mother has just what many believe has faked a heart attack. her mother's friend has said consuelo, you need to do something to help get your mother back in good health. the only thing that is going to get her back into good health is agreeing to marry the duke of marlboro. her friends cannot get in to see her. there are all of her letters that she writes to friends outside are not getting delivered. her father is traveling, so she has no one to talk to. her brothers are too young to appreciate or understand what it is like to be forced into a marriage. so i think that this bedroom must have been a place where she did a lot of soul-searching and a lot of misery-keeping, if you will, trying to reconcile in her mind what her mother wanted for her and for the family and what she wanted. as we know from history, she agreed the duke of marlboro would be a good husband. so she went on to accept his marriag

this house was built really by alva vanderbilt with richard hunt. it was a 39th birthday president from her husband william, to her, and alva was a great frank 0 file. she lived in paris. right during the civil war. she came from mobile, and living in paris she became quite the francophile and well-informed about french art and architecture. she had a hand in what this building was going to look like and how it would be decorated. it is very much in the french style, designed to be a fak sim milly of this building. we will see that many of remembrances come floo play. we are in the gold room of the marble house. this is the room for entertaining. this is the ballroom if you will. everything is guilded. the most important part of this room is the major restoration effort that the preservation society undertook to replace the upholstery on the fabric and the furniture and to replace these curtains. the interesting story about this fabric is that it was made in france with the same loom with the same design which was used to create the textiles. it is

have an extremely fast ocean steamer, the vanderbilt. how much would you charge to use that ship to sink the merrimac? vanderbilt, very graciously says, i won't charge you anything. i will, in a sense, donate this vessel to the federal government, which he does. although, the navy does not want it. in fact, wells calls it a white elephant. in the end, no one knows what to do with this vessel. it does become part of the u.s. navy blockade fleet and wells had never wanted it. very popular with new yorkers -- there are a number of new yorkers that write in saying it is not an unusual occurrence for an east river steamer to clip a pier and be no worse for wear. in fact, charles megs, who is a banker in new york, said i saw the steamer empire basically sheer off the 19th street pier and it was perfectly find. thus, he has this idea for creating a steel-nosed ram that would be totally unarmed. only its nose would be armored and it would be exceptionally fast. it would be what he calls fish-bottomed. it wouldn't have much of a kiel and it would

vanderbilt graciously says, i won't charge you anything. i will una sense donate this vessel to the federal government. which he does. although the navy does not want it. in fact, wells calls it a white elephant. that in the end, no one really knows what to do with this vessel. it does become part of the u.s. navy blockade fleet. but again, wells had never wanted it. also, very popular, especially with new yorkers. there is a number of new yorkers who write in, saying -- that -- often it's not an unusual occurrence for an east river steamer to clip a pier and be no worse for wear. in fact, charles meggs, a banker in new york said i saw the steamer umpire, basically sheer off the 19-street pier and it was perfectly fine. and thus he has the this idea for creating -- a steel the nosed ram that would be unarmed. only its nose would be armored, and it would be exceptionally fast. it would be what he calls fish bottomed, it wouldn't have much of a keel. and it would therefore be able to turn very quickly and, it would be able to again, throw its

the acorn and oak leaf was the motif for the family crest of the vanderbilts. >> cornelius vanderbilted a railroad empire in the 1800s. it helped make the vanderbilts one of the richest families in america. >> so, they used their crest and put it in different materials throughout the entire terminal, and it's very fun to go through the building and find different examples of them. >> it's not just grand central's interior that's impressive. >> this was intended to be seen as a triumphal entry into new york city. it's modeled on the great roman arches, which were intended to be monuments to the great war battles of the romans. so it has that same kind of idea of entry into and outside of new york city. and it has many symbols on top of it and throughout the facade -- symbols of new york city. you see thalf moon, which was henry hudson's ship. on the other side is a windmill, which refers to the original dutch settlers of new york. and then on the top is the great monumental sculptural element, which has three gods. >> the gods -- hercules, mercury, and minerva -- came from greek and ro

sculptor gertrude vanderbilt whitney herself a d.r. member might well have been thinking of cleo, goddess of history, in fashioning the classically draped figure of a woman nine feet in height, her arms reaching out to what? the past? or the future? >> set amidst elegant landscaping it recalls whitney's other prominent work in the nation's capital, the "titanic" memorial near washington channel. only here instead of a flanking bench there's a low stone wall with bronze medallions honoring eugenia washington, mary desha, ellen harden wallworth, and mary smith lockwood. as charter members of the d.a.r., these four women invited others descended from revolutionary era combatants to celebrate their service and to promote greater public appreciation of the freedoms for which their ancestors fought. >> next on the civil war, more fromhe

abby, what are your thoughts on this sunday morning, about this effort by vanderbilt?t really want to convey that leadership does matter to maintain the integrity of our organization and that the inconsistency of the all comers policy and the not being applied across the board equally, and when they discriminate against new members by the nature of recruitment, whether their hair color, what they're wearing or activities they're involved in and the problem is that vanderbilt isn't consistently applying this policy and we don't want greek life to go away. i as a member of a sorority, i love greek life a part of it, but we want an apology 0 to all organizations including greek life. >> you say there's a double standard. where do we bring people together on this sunday morning? how do we get it done? are the christian groups now going to step out of the university sanctioned organization structure? >> well, right now, 15 of the 30 organizations have said they're-- have either left campus already and said they're going to leave campus and that's half of the christian organ

under these rules, by vanderbilt, an atheist could wind up running vanderbilt catholic and so they'vep. what's the fellowship of christian athletes going to do? >> we have banded together with 11 other organizations on campus and we actually had to apply for -- to be a registered group, i think, two nights ago and we all submitted a similar document saying that we do abide by the nondiscrimination policy. yet, we did add another clause saying that we would -- we are asking the administration to reconsider and say it's ok for us to require our leaders to affirm their faith. >> sure. you know, also, under the same ruling, i would imagine a republican could wind up being the head of the young democrats and vice versa. >> exactly. right. >> have any atheists to your knowledge tried to join the fellowship for christian athletes? >> not to my knowledge. i mean, i do know that we do have plenty of nonbelievers who do come to our meetings. again, f.c.a. is open to anybody and we would -- and we believe that's the reason for christianity, that anybody can come and learn and learn about the lov

the union reports say that merrimac shows up, we withdrew trying to lure her further down so that vanderbilt and the other big rams could get a shot at her where the confederates say, well, the union saw the merrimac come and go fled. they all went to hide under the guns of fortress monroe. the union landing does take place, norfolk does fall, and on may 11 the confederates blow up the merrimac. in fact, solomon p. chase, who finds it sometimes reluctant to praise abraham lincoln writes to his daughter saying, if lincoln had not come down, the merrimac would probably still be as great a terror as previously. lincoln's presence and his forceful insistence that something be done actually garnered results. but the ghost of the merrimac comes back to haunt the union after the end of the war. again, we think merrimac is blown up, end of story. that's not really the end of the story, because one of the other things i've run across in my wandering through the national archives, the federal government has three contracts after the war with salvage firms to do something about the wreck of the merrima

listen what he says when a sheriff's dispatcher calls him at home. >> you toed a car from vanderbilt and 111th monday. do you remember it? >> no. >> she said it was near the cemetery. the people at the cemetery are telling her you put somebody in the back of your vehicle and arrested somebody. >> i never arrested nobody. >> isn't that amazing. he's a seasoned veteran and he couldn't remember four days later. >> you don't buy that? >> no, it's not true. it's not true at all. >> reporter: eight days after terrence vanished, deputy caulk kins was invited to write a report. it's in this report a different story emerges. deputy caulk kins says he drove the father of four to a nearby circle k where he says terrence worked. it's that version of events that concerned investigators because just months earlier they heard the same story from deputy caulk kins about another missing man, 23-year-old philippe santos vanished october 14th, 2003 after deputy caulk kins responded to the scene of a minor accident involving santos. he issued santos a citation and put him in the back of the sheriff's ca

a tough loss to vanderbilt. they had to face florida. a beautiful spring day.me was as good as the weather. in the first half, colleen gives the blue jays a 1-0 lead. she does it again. 3-1 blue jays. gators came roaring back to tie the game at 5. just before the half, florida and grabs the first lead. gators led by one of the break and held on to win 13-12. it is a great day for golf. the masters is taking place this >> i want to shout out to the crab house in maryland. to my mom and dad, a sister, cousins, everyone else in rushtown. i hope to see you soon. >> i am commander of the 378 located in regional command of northern afghanistan. i want to wish my family in pennsylvania, my mom, and my brother a very happy easter. i miss you guys and love you lots. see you soon. >> i am calling from camp clark , afghanistan. i want to give my mom happy easter. sophia, i love you and miss you. happy easter. >> a big forecast for tomorrow. >> a lot of sun, a few clouds. we'd start out chilly but wind up in the 60's just like today. it could be close to 70 in a few places

the fight for freedom of religion at vanderbilt university is heating up.ampus is being forced to change its name. the order put in place following the group's decision to leave campus after the university decided to enforce an all groups -- it must be open to all students. even atheists. they would even be allowed to lead those groups. wouldn't that be fascinating? the university spokesperson saying, quote, those student groups who chose not to comply with the university's nondiscrimination policy forfeit the privileges associated with the registered student association status and that includes the use of the vanderbilt name. >> gretchen: government plan to help homeowners fight foreclosure was severely flawed. that according to a new report revealed this morning from the inspector general' office. the treasury department rushed out the revamped foreclosure plan in 2010, limiting its ability to help people who are out of work or those who owed more on their homes than they are actually worth. the hardest hit fund was part of the controversial $700 billion

sculptor gertrude vanderbilt whitney, herself a member, might well have been thinking of cleo, goddess of history in fashioning classically draped figurable woman, nine feet in height, her arms reaching out to, what, the past or the future? the elegant landscaping, the overall effect recalls whitney's other prominent work in the nation's capital, the titanic memorial near washington channel. only here instead of a flanking bench there's a low stone wall with bronze medallions honoring ugenia washington and mary smith lockwood. as charter members of the dar, these four women invited others, from revolutionary era combatants to celebrate their service and promote greater public appreciation of the freedoms for which their ancestors fought. >>> up next is a 1967 cbs news special report titled "the ordeal of con thien" about an ongoing battle in the vietnam war. cbs news correspondent mike wallace hosts this half hour special report. >> because of the following cbs news special report, the program normally seen at this time will not be presented today. >> we can't reach those big guns and

you're going to hear later about a student from vanderbilt university now graduated who started a couple of years ago a program to train offenders who had been sent to prison, and in half-way houses having been released from prison but not into society yet, so they were employable and helping to find them jobs. this is a huge deal. people who go to prison and get out, which is more than 90% of the people who go to prison, are much less likely to become repeat offenders if they have jobs. yet, even though we say we're a people of second chances and once you pay your debt to society you're supposed to get one, the truth is, one of the first have been the job training and job placement programs for former inmates n. is something that nearly every college and university in america could adopt. so, again, i say don't be discouraged if what you're doing starts out helping a relatively small number of people because if taken to scale it could change the future for a huge number of people. we are going to try to address these challenges, step by step, knowing that as my good friend former govern

so alva vanderbilt, built the chinese tea house really as a folly in 1914. she hired two architects and commissioned them to travel to china for more than a year and they came back with this design, which was later built. it was an expression of fun she used to host parties centered around the tea house and certainly it was a great focal point standing on the terrace looking out to the sea overlooking this tremendous silhouette the wonderful red color. i think a great, great addition to the entire property of the marble house. >> this week on the civil war, author and history professor, william shay, talks about the battle of pea ridge arkansas, fought on march 7th and 8th, 1862. he spoke to a group at the library in benton, arkansas, a few days after the battle. this is a little over an hour. >> all right, i think we are about ready to start. i would look to welcome you to the saline county library and our series on civil war history. celebrating the 150th anniversary of the civil war. and my name is steve purdue curator of the arkansas room and head of gen

the author of this work is holly tucker, she's a professor at vanderbilt university in nashville where she is with the center for science, history of science and medicine. >> medicine, health and society. >> medicine, health and society. and she's also a professor of the history of italian and french with a specialty in the history of medicine. her book, which is a wonderful narrative, has just been i was told today has just been nominated for los angeles times book award. the awards will be on april -- >> 20th, i think. >> april 20th, and it's up in the science and technology nonfiction. holly, why don't you tell us a little bit about this book and starting off our historical tour here. >> sure. well, first, thanks to the tucson book festival for the chance to be here and to, um, be with two fantastic authors whose work i admire a lot as well. so i started writing this book several years ago primarily as a study of the history of blood. and it soon took a life of its own. i noticed through research and also serendipity is that the first blood transfusions took place in the 17th centur

vanderbilt is the transitive property ncaa championship.a equals b and b equals c, then we beat kentucky, kentucky beat the title. that means we are the national champion. buy that logic? >> all the algebra teachers are standing up and applauding you this morning. >> it's a flawed use of the theory. >>> it's a cruel month in april in many areas of the rockies. they are under a very cold weather pattern right now. and it is snowing in denver this morning. yes, the same location that was 85 and sunny just last week. so i-25 there's been some snow near colorado springs down to pueblo. the warm side of the storm and some big thunderstorms this morning. wichita falls got nailed earlier. now just south of oklahoma city. if you are traveling near i-35 in between dallas, fort worth and oklahoma city, that's probably the worst drive. late this afternoon, more thunderstorms. we're kinding in a stormy weather pattern. the typical late afternoon storms. the ohio valley, indianapolis, columbus, all of indiana, ohio, northern kentucky. and then once agai

. >> i was going to say, actually, my daughter received an award when she graduated law at vanderbilt two years ago that very much characterizes- >> she's a lawyer? >> yes. i'm very proud of her, as a matter of fact. and this award was the only one that was voted on by the entire faculty, and it spoke- i don't remember the exact words now, but it was something not- not the student that's in your class who not only had sort of a clear and good grasp of the profession of law, but who was also most likely to practice it with something- and mercy. mercy. and it spoke very much to the ideals that this gentleman is talking about. there are lawyers in law schools who do that- there are. there is something- it's just more pervasive than any of that. i think one thing that makes our people lawsuit happy has to do with the whole climate we live in. you know, i still have recipes that call for a one-pound can of tomatoes- there aren't any anymore. they went to 15 ounces. no, but i mean, it just- it has the feeling of being cheated, of being ripped off- that the prices continue to climb, and the

so alva vanderbilt, built the chinese tea house really as a folly in 1914. she hired two architects and commissioned them to travel to china for more than a year and they came back with this design, which was later built. it was an expression of fun she used to host parties centered around the tea house and certainly it was a great focal point standing on the terrace looking out to the sea overlooking this tremendous silhouette the wonderful red color. i think a great, great addition to the entire property of the marble house. >> we can always go back and read all of the reports bit doesn't really tell us what a war time experience is like for an individual, whether they served in combat or in -- in a supportive capacity. you can't begin to understand, we as a society can't begin to understand our history until we understand and listen to the people who lived through and helped shape that. 40 years after the first full-skate engagement between u.s. troops and the people's army of vietnam, the vietnam archive at texas tech university and lubbock, texas, inter

the fight for religious freedom at vanderbilt university.ether to form the vanderbilt solidarity. it's in response to the school's anti-discrimination rule. the policy forbids student groups from taking religion into consideration for leadership roles meaning that a christian group could be forced to let an atheist be in charge of their organization or a whole bunch of other things could happen. >> and a smart car driver apparently not so smart. while trying to park her car. this woman caught on camera having the hardest time parallel parking her teeny smart car in this very huge space. she apparently tried -- i watched the tape last night for several minutes, more than three minutes. at one point, her friend gets out of the car to help direct her. but after many failed attempts, she drives up and parks in the parking lot instead. and no, it was not another parallel spot. a lot of people are challenged in terms of parallel parking. >> she'd have a hard time in manhattan, i can tell you that much. what's going on outside? >>> thanks, ali and

they went on a 20-0 run and vanderbilt called a time-out. a spectator in the stands whom i had not seen because there were 20,000 people there sent his card down to me on the bench and said, great halftime coaching, come again. but it was not me. it was coach summit. in fact, when she was staring each one of her players in the face at halftime in an intensely very angry, loud voice, i was glad i was not one of those players. coach summit is the winningest coach in basketball history with 1,098 victories. her teams have won 16 southeastern conference championships and eight national championships. she has coached in 18 final fours. she has an 84%, 84% winning record as head coach. but to me her most impressive statistic is the 100% graduation rate. she did not allow her players to take easy quorses -- courses. let me repeat that, every player who has ever played for coach summit in her 38 years has graduated. she made sure they were prepared for life after basketball and almost all of her players have been successful after leaving the univers

vanderbilt, rockefeller dupont. who died? was it neighboring could be who died? was in the ship. >> did anybody in the world care about that question? no. sorry. >> too much turrets syndrome. comes out. he doesn't know why. >> disaster continues with a shiite race. he died in 1977. >> many believe that drugs led to presley's death. some think the autopsy covered it up. what did the coroner list stroke, heart arrhythmia, heart disease respiratory failure? how did the king die? the answer is b heart arrhythmia. doocy with two. here is a fourth disaster question. the deadliest aviation accident in history took place when it two planes collided on the runway in the canary island. >> the deadliest happened when two jumbo jets crashed on the ground in heavy fog in the canary island in 1977. 583 people died. >> wow. the accident involved an aircraft another from what u.s. carrier? american delta, pan-am d united? there you go. c pan-am t. the only national carrier. we put it in so everybody could figure it out. >> one question. >> cheating looking at you. keep an eye on

guest: the study was done by bruce oppenheimer at vanderbilt university. he wrote the piece in part because he noticed this discrepancy that i mentioned earlier that you have all these young members of the house that you would think would be running for state office. he wanted to figure out why that was the case and this is what they found. if you ask most people why they are not many african-americans in the senate, their thoughts turn to racism. they think black politicians cannot attract white votes. it is not that simple. it is not so much racism that is the problem as it is a bunch of qualities that are somewhat the result of past racial barriers. some are the result of measures to alleviate those like the voting rights act which creates a majority/minority district. all those things together get -- make it very difficult for politicians to climb up the ladder in a way most people expect. host: can you give our viewers an idea of what type of district's african americans are representing in the house and how liberal they are? the other members represe

in an act of unity we have learned 11 student groups are forming vanderbilt's volume darity. policy forbids student groups for taking religion into consideration for roles. a christian group could be forced to have an atheist run their organization. >> a smart car driver not so smart trying to park her car. having the hardest time parking her little car. at one point her friend gets out of the car to try to direct her. after many failed attempts she drives up and parks in a lot. no it wasn't another parallel spot. >> i could watch this all day. >> if you can't parallel park this car you have problems. >> drive a mo-ped for heaven's sake. >> more on the threat of tornadoes. >> the car saws so tiny, wasn't it? >> they should give up their driver's license. >> i wonder if there were 20 clowns in the car ready to get out. >> parallel parking not our strong suit. >> i agree. i am the same way. i don't know how i passed the driving test. serious weather this friday the 13th. let's take a quick tour across the nation. northeast clearing out and a warm-up on the way for this weekend.

she's a professor of political science and law at vanderbilt and author of "be the people," carol swainster and fox news contributor, author of "hopelessly divided," sloan shown. let's talk about the veep stakes. everybody's putting lists together and most of the people on the lists are all saying, no, no, not me. why is that? >> the worst thing you can do is say yes because if you say yes, there is extraordinary scrutiny and questioning. marco rubio has had a few questions asked. he is at the top of anybody's list. the best thing for him to do is to do what he's done. rob portman is also at the top of the list because there is a very close race. it will come down to ohio and florida and they are the most likely in my opinion. >> liz: what did you make of jeb bush basically not saying no, saying if he got the phone call, he would consider it? >> i think that's wise, otherwise he would not have been considered. i hear a lot of people saying that the republicans have to place a minority on the ticket and rube rubio would be great because the hispanics will vote for the republicans. i thin

. >> you tow add car from vanderbilt and 11th monday. a cadillac. do you remember it?eople at the semtrary are telling me you put somebody in the back of your vehicle and arrested him and i don't show you arresting anybody. >> i never arrested nobody. >> a seasoned deputy? he don't remember? >> you don't buy it. >> no. it's not true. it's not true at all. >> eight days after he vanished deputy calkins had to write a report. he said he drove a father of four to a nearby circle k where he thought terrance worknd that's what concerned investigators because months earlier they had the same story from deputy calkins about another disappeared man, felipe in 2003 after deputy calkins arrived at the scene of an accident involving he issued santos a citation and put him in the back of the sheriff's car. santos' brother, who was also at the scene, asked we hide his face out of fear of his safety. >> did deputy tell you where he was taking your brother? >> translator: the officer never told us anything. later we went to the jail and my brother wasn't there. >> when he was questio

back then, wealthy families like the vanderbilts and the whitneys dominated the game, and hollywood starsisney were avid players. to understand how the game is played, we asked nacho for a lesson. >> figueras: it's four against four. you play different periods called chukkers. they're seven minutes long. you have to score with a ball that is this big. >> logan: the object is to hit the ball through the opposing team's goal, and it all takes place on the largest field in sports, big enough to fit nine football fields. the rules are you have to use your right hand to play and control the horse with your left. the horses go as fast as 35 miles an hour, and usually last about three and a half minutes before they have to be swapped out. nacho has one of the best strings of polo ponies in the game. what are his strengths on the field? >> figueras: stopping and turning-- amazing. these horses can stop on a dime. you can compare it with racecar driving. >> logan: so this is a ferrari right here? >> figueras: this is a ferrari right here that then also has to be tuned and feel great for the game.

. >> vanderbilt elementary. >> want to say hi to your teacher. >> hello miss johnson hello. >> you have pick it up off my mic >> i figured giving him a mic wouldn't be the best thing to do. >> weather, showers coming up maybe i will let you do the weather in a second. >> before it is all said and done you sit there and wait on mely do this real quick a little bit of sun poking through late this afternoon and evening i don't think it will be enough to get our temperatures up more than they are. we are stuck at 64 degrees here in the city we may have bumped a couple degrees higher than that martins burg, 71, winchester 70, culpepper 68 why are they warmer out west they got more sunshine than we did. some sun at 7:00 p.m., temperature pretty much where it is. a few showers coming in from the northwest at 9:00 p.m. lingering showers at 11, 56 degrees, right now, we will say that maybe, there is an outside chance, a couple of these showers come through later on this evening, could have a rumble of thunder, as this comes through, we could see it in western sections of pennsylvania now, maybe