in the willard hotel. i also want to the school of photography. , the corporate. >> you mentioned francis benjamin johnston. how important has she been in your life? >> she is my everything, because during her lifetime, she decided to donate her images to the library of congress and this became the cornerstone of this division. -- princeton photographed division. >> here is a picture of her. >> that photograph was taken at her studio, right near 13th. and you. her house has been torn down but you can see all of the houses where she lived and i know what she looked at. she photographed various presidential administrations, and presidents, and she was a bohemian. she was a wild person. but, what i admire about her, it'sduring her lifetime, she put together this collection. >> and how many of these photographs of her? there is probably -- maybe 20, 40,003>> we have a photograph that we showed earlier of you at the willard. what year was that? >> 1980 per>> i said i wanted to have a photograph of myself that i

>> we have a photograph that we showed earlier of you at the willard. what year was that? >> i said i wanted to have a photograph of myself that i have taken just like the one that she took in front of her studio on 13th street. i wanted to be recorded at the same time that she was recorded. >> we have a picture of teddy roosevelt and his son. there is one of teddy roosevelt himself on his horse. >> let me tell you a fascinating story. i photograph presidential collections with a national park service. the same outfit that he has on, i photographed this outfoot. this was at his home. this was in long island. >> this is a photograph of the willard in the open days. >> this is from francis benjamin johnston. this is gone. the only way that we know that this look like is because she photographed this. to me, this says everything. i actually take photographs, and i am also interested in the one who photographed the depression, and there are some photographs that tell you one thing, and people may say another thing about that time. but photographs speak the truth. what i love i

willard said, mrs. ford was very much involved in the planning of her funeral.oing on for years, and they had talked about it. they talked about who she would use to eulogyize her. she chose those people. one of those people will be former first lady roslialynn cart carter. they were the deepest of friends, she will eulogyize her here in california. >> thelma gutierrez, we appreciate it, thank you. >>> british tabloid owned by rupert murdoch comes to an end after a scandal. that report is next. >>> and we're going to take you live to l.a. for the latest on the british royal couple's visit to the u.s. >>> according to the u.s. census, more than 120 million americans are self-employed, some become business owners before graduating high school. steve perry introduces us to a couple in tonight's perry's principles. >> reporter: mia is not your typical 18-year-old, she's met the president, rang the bell at the new york stock exchange and started a business. >> you started a vegan cookie business in high school? >> yes, yes. the summer after tenth grade. my parents be

and the next is a schoo mystery emma willard, championship of higher education. >> she was really the champion higher education for wom in america and she came over to ris order to improve herself as a teacher. so she came to learn to go back to teach so she brought back an improved teaching and she brought back a french teacher for her school, the emma willard school in troy, new york which is still there. the teacher's not still there but the school is there. >> charlie: the next is p.t. barnum and tom thumb. >> they took paris by storm. >> charlie: i'll bet they did. >> tom poosch as he was known. and performed in fro of the king. to several americans, sensations at theime. one was louie godshock who i just mentioned and the other was george catland the painter of the plains indians who arrived inmaris wit indians and 50 -- 500 of his paintings. no one ever arrived in paris in such a sensation as george catland. >> charlie: what year. >>n the 850's. and of course the french were very much taken up with the whole idea of rousseau which is the natural man, the real man and yet people

let's take a live look. >>> as we head over, montgomery county, wisconsin avenue and willard avenue. local roadways in montgomery county as well as prince korges georges county. this is a smooth ride inner loop and outer loop of the beltway in maryland and virginia. speaking of virginia, how about 66? 66 in both directions inside and outside of the beltway, your lanes are clear, and it is a smooth ride for you as well. joe and aaron, back to you. >> danella, thank you. >>> this fourth of july, you don't have to go far to get the best seafood in america. >> that's right. maryland's chesapeake bay takes the top spot. maryland's eastern shore chosen for countless places to get what the website calls the freshest crabs in the country. coming in second was baton rouge, louisiana, for its crawfish. boston made the list for its oysters. georgetown, maine, highlighted for lobster. and charleston, south carolina, chosen for atlantic slivhrimp. >>> it's become a fourth of july tradition. the nathan's annual hot dog eating contest. it will take place today on coney island and feature local flav

man: this 10-inch water main in willard park is 73 years old. man: at wssc, we're having a year of record -- a ramp up slope of water main breaks that soon is going to reach exponential. man: the damage has been done. and this is the culprit. brunhart: today, 25% of our 5,500 miles of underground water pipes has reached the end of useful life. by the year 2020, 85% will have reached the end of useful life. woman: what to do? wssc is working on that costly problem right now. brunhart: it's not only true here, but it's true throughout our nation. narrator: across the united states, cities and towns are facing the challenge of aging and outdated drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater infrastructure. it's a national problem. but it needs to be approached system by system. allbee: let's frame the systems in terms of the proper context. we have around 16,000 wastewater systems. we don't have a single wastewater system -- we have 16,000 of them. we have about 54,000 drinking water systems. narrator: issues facing new york city are very different fr

john romer, former massachusetts' governor and current moneybags, willard, mitt romney, and rick santorum. there are a lot of people who think they should be the republican party's choice to run against president obama next year. who has a real shot at it? you can tell by polling. each poll is expensive. if you are a polling firm, particularly if you are polling nationally, you have got to decide who is viable enough as a candidate to warrant inclusion in your poll, who you think has a real chance. you cannot poll on every one every time, you would go broke. you have to narrow down the field. are you going to poll on jimmy mcmillan? he seems like a very nice man, and indeed, the rent is too damn high, but he'll probably not be president or vice president. pollsters have to make what amount to editorial choices when they poll, and yesterday a major polling firm made a major choice. after minnesota governor tim pawlenty performed the opposite of well in its latest poll, the firm public policy polling announced it was dropping governor tim pawlenty from its general election polling. they are

michele bachmann lack of executive experience than any criticism he has dared to offer of front-runner willard m. romney, and that is perhaps for constitutional reasons. because if the worst possible thing happens to the republican party and michele bachmann becomes their nominee for president, she is in effect constitutionally forbidden from choosing tim pawlenty as her running mate because she and pawlenty are from the same state. but attacks on bachmann only increase her popularity in tea party ranks, which pawlenty must have eventually realized since he has now taken to the safer strategy of talking tough about president obama. >> the leader of the free world, would you please come to the microphone and quite hiding in the basement about your proposals and come on up and address the american people? is he chicken? >> now, remember, the guy is in a car driving around iowa all day. he can't keep up with everything happening on tv. >> essentially what we had offered speaker boehner was over a trillion dollars in cuts to discretionary spending both domestic and defense. we then offered additio

michele bachmann lack of executive experience than any criticism he has dared to offer of front-runner willardomney, and that is perhaps for constitutional reasons. because if the worst possible thing happens to the republican party and michele bachmann becomes their nominee for president, she is in effect constitutionally forbidden from choosing tim pawlenty as her running mate because she and pawlenty are from the same state. but attacks on bachmann only increase her popularity in tea party ranks, which pawlenty must have eventually realized since he has now taken to the safer strategy of talking tough about president obama. >> the leader of the free world, would you please come to the microphone and quite hiding in the basement about your proposals and come on up and address the american people? is he chicken? >> now, remember, the guy is in a car driving around iowa all day. he can't keep up with everything happening on tv. >> essentially what we had offered speaker boehner was over a trillion dollars in cuts to discretionary spending both domestic and defense. we then offered additional $

or is michele bachmann emerging as the tea party's battering ram against the willard mitt romney? me now is richard wolfe and with me, editor at large for salon.com, joan walsh. let me ask you first. is the bachmann threat a real threat, richard? >> well, she is a threat herself to mitt romney. but i actually think the space that she represents is more of a threat. look, she needs to call donald trump to figure out how this movie ends. can you rise very quickly on this kind of platform and then you sink very quickly. but what she is showing and what trump showed before her is that there is space for a populist insurgeant type of tea party candidate who can capture the spirit driving the base here. i personally don't think it will be her. i think it is going to be someone like rick perry or sarah palin but she is peaking too early. the one thing you don't do is too early in the summer before. >> are they waiting joan for another tea party hero to come from the wings like rick perry or sarah palin? is that what we are waiting on? >> i don't know that anyone is waiting. >> i think th

wisconsin avenue and willard avenue, you're looking good in montgomery county as well. checking cameras for you, and nothing to report at this time as we head down to d.c. right here 16th and irving. d.c., your local roads are looking good as well. let's check out 95 north >> they found the person in the water about a half mile south of the memorial bridge just br 11:00 last night. they took that person to thompson boathouse, where they performed cpr. officials have not said how the person ended up in the water or whether the person is, in fact, a man or a woman. d.c. fire and ems says there was heavy boat traffic in the area at the time. >>> this weekend storms are still leaving their mark on northern virginia. just about 1,500 customers are still without power. and a few roads remain closed because of downed trees and power lines. tracee wilkins is live in arlington for us this morning with a look at the damage. tracee? >> reporter: good morning, aaron. we're happy to report there's lots of clean-up happening here in the northern section of arlington. take a look behi

michele bachmann lack of executive experience than any criticism he has dared to offer of front-runner willardnd that is perhaps for constitutional reasons. because if the worst possible thing happens to the republican party and michele bachmann becomes their nominee for president, she is in effect constitutionally forbiden from choosing tim pawlenty as her running mate because she and pawlenty are from the same state. but attacks on bachmann only increase her popularity in tea party ranks, which pawlenty must have eventually realized since he has now taken to the safer strategy of talking tough about president obama. >> the leader of the free world, would you please come to the microphone and quite hiding in the basement about your proposals and come on up and address the american people? is he chicken? >> now, remember, the guy is in a car driving around iowa all day. he can't keep up with everything happening on tv. >> essentially what we had offered speaker boehner was over a trillion dollars in cuts to discretionary discretionary spending, both domestic and defense. we then offered additi

willard scott.e candles, because here we are in smucker'sville. happy birthday to one and all. and this is eve jacobson. i'll get that right. 100 years old today. and we wish her a very happy birthday. lives independently and loves her chicago. what a town. nothing like chicago. nothing like chicago. and mary cavotta of mechanicsville, new york. 100 years old today. an avid syracuse university basketball fan and football. loves to watch it on the tv. and we have abraham shenkman of lynbrook, new york. 100 years old today. proud world war ii veteran, and lives independently. drives his own vehicle and still works at his typewriter. how about that? keeping busy. that's part of the secret. and here is elizabeth shamrell from tucson, arizona, 102 years old today. secret to longevity is eating plenty of vegetables, and doing all sorts of exciting things like having a glass of wine with her din-din. he had gar eifert. he is from faribault, minnesota. 100 years old today. served as a minister for 75 years,

. >> willard and carmen miranda got together.right. >> i like pie, i hate to run. but i run so i can eat. >> it makes sense. pie and everything else. >> finally what i consider to be the doozy, you are lenny kravitz' cousin? for real? >> i wasn't supposed to say but now i give up the monthly stipend. >>> back with more after this. it's the best job in the world. my students are amazing. but to be there for them, you've gotta feel your best. kids can tell. that's why i love eating activia light every day. so delicious activia light helps me feel good inside. which helps me be my best... positive, cheerful and on top of things. help regulate your digestive system. love how you feel or your money back. ♪ activia that's what people could say if you're still using a liquid foundation that can settle into your lines and wrinkles and make you look older. like an apricot... or a prune. and i like both, i just don't want to look like one. covergirl and olay simply ageless foundation has regenerist serum and floats above lines and makes yo

willard scott on this 4th of july. hello, willard. >> happy birthday, america. what a country. town johnny carson helped make famous. bob's big boy. oh, my gosh, we love them. 100 years old today. great farming community in the beginning and now the media center of the world. nbc's fabulous studios are there. ladies be seated "queen for a day," the first show i ever saw and it was in burbank. you're the best. and take a look if you will as the jam jar spins about. as we have margaret dunning, 101. she's a car buff, not only does she like to keep her car clean she does all the mechanical work. she is a whiz. happy birthday. and elwyn jackson of salem, oregon, 100 years old, navy man, we wish you a happy birthday. if you listen to this, please, we have marcus linse. marcus is from marion, iowa. 100 today. and lives independently and still drives his own vehicle. there you go. you can't beat that. and helen mcauliffe from beautiful north vernon northern, indiana. loves to get all of her hair done and gets it done every week. she is a beautiful lady. and selma pensky of hollywood,

. >>> all right, willard. thanks.e dos don'ts of staying safe when you try to fix something at ♪ our house in the middle of our street ♪ >> this morning on today's home, we're talking about do it yourself safety. you can save a couple of bucks on home improvement project ifs you do them yourself. but, if you hurt yourself, you'll pay more on medical bills than you would have saved on the first place. lou manferdini is a licensed contract and the host of a syndicated show, "house smart." welcome back. we've done a lot of segments in the past about doing things yourself at home and worried about doing more damage than good. we're usually talking about the wall tore window. now we're talking a about our bodies. >> there's been this explosion in do it yourself. a rebirth of home improvement. i attribute it to the economy. there are some things you need to know, you know, about having the right tools and the right skills and -- go ahead. >> it's ego. people think i'm not going to get hurt. you can handle it. but we have ti

. >> willard scott, right. you guys already knew that one.lti,000 dollar sundae, it's a nice way to boost your margin. >> $2200. >> prices have gone up. >> inflation. i thought it would sneak right in there. you learn a lot and leave this program and go on to become a manager at one of the various franchises. >> you always learn service with a smile. >> you do, indeed, and with calories. >> calories, too? >> yes. the whole nine yards. >> great smile. i'm sure you sold a lot of burgers. thank you so much. >>> and just ahead, from burgers to dogs, we're going to meet the winners ofth of july hot dog eating contest after this. >>> fairfield, 72, san francisco, comfortable start. headed to 79 degrees. warm in the tri-valley region. 99 in livermore, fairfield and concord. we cool off as of tomorrow. thank you very much. for the latest traffic and news updates, check out nbc bay area. more news update. live look inside our control room. thanks to our correctors and crew this morning. bills that would help save these natural treasures. jonathan adds

and say hello to willard scott. >> hey, man, what a year for air conditioning salesmen, right?re on the "today" show for some of our friends. take a look, if you will, as the old jam jar spins around. here's marie geiser, from la grange park, illinois. 109. bless her heart, years old. loves to play bridge twice a week. and enjoys traveling. she does quite a bit of traveling. that's incredible. and wonderful. and we have sweet mary ruggieri of johnston, rhode island. that's a nice town. pretty state, rhode island. 106. look at that. good lord, have mercy. and impressive bowler. sends that thing rht down the middle. active in her church and does all sorts of charity work. can't beat that. willie, willie boy, williams james of bristol, vermont, 100 years old. loves to socialize and enjoys watching nascar racing. big egest spectator sport in th country. and alice chace, 100 and can speak seven different languages. how about that? enjoys all sorts of outdoor activities. that's great. lois barr of blairsville, georgia, 105. what about that? 105. lives independently and enjoys baking