if you were anyone in society, you came to williamsburg. her mother was in williamsburg society.hen she came of age where she was being brought into society, she was being brought to the assemblies and balls here. she was at the balls at the royal governor's palace. she was at the assemblies at places like the raleigh tavern. when it was time to be brought out into polite society, williamsburg was the place to be because her mother knew williamsburg was where her daughter needed to be. martha falls in love with her first husband, daniel custis. she knows he is a farmer, a plantation owner, but what she does not know is daniel is the son of john custis, who owned several properties here in williamsburg, all the northern, -- the northern neck, most of the eastern shore, and she falls in love with his son, daniel, thinking it is just a man from new kent. when daniel says to his father, i want to marry martha, john says her family is not fortunate enough to marry into us. he said no. her family was well known. her father was a clerk. martha was well known for her amiable personality.

but the courts have started giving him more freedom, periodic visits to williamsburg, virginia. resort community where his mother lives. a gate house to keep out unwanted visitors, but still under secret service surveillance. >> he is never free in the sense that no one is watching him. >> almost two years ago, the hospital asked the judge for permission to release hinckley eventually to live full-time in williamsburg. prosecutors are resisting, with no end in sight to the ongoing court fight. >> i think john hinckley will be a threat for the rest of his life. i think he is a time bomb. >> in the ford museum, just behind the reagan limousine is the convertible in which john f. kennedy was shot to death in 1963. a hard top restored to the car after that murder. starting with abraham lincoln at the end of the civil war, nine presidents in and out of office have been targeted by gunfire. four of them killed. it has been 23 -- 32 years since the last shots were fired at an american president. the longest such interval ever between assassination attempts, with each death, each near m

[laughter] to plot their path back to power, the gop recently held a three-day conference in williamsburg, virginia, which is the perfect location, because the republican platform also re-enacts the 18th century. [laughter] they say they went there for a little self-reflection exactly what men inspired by ayn rand need-- more time thinking about themselves. [laughter] they also reached out to voters, with a web-survey asking how they can improve their messaging. and a computerized web survey is the perfect way to hear from republicans' core constituency of the extremely old. latch laugh the number one suggestion was, "hello? hello? how does this thing make toast?" [laughter] [cheers and applause] and after that, the gop crunched the numbers and figured out what they need to change about their views toward women, immigration, and tax cuts for the rich. and the answer was-- i have it "nothing." it's a blank sheet of paper. there's nothing on here you see. according to rnc chair reince priebus-- fun fact, his name is an anagram for penis rice-a-roni-- [laughter] the gop doesn't need to chang

periodic visits to williamsburg, virginia, staying in this resort community where his mother lives. unwanted visitors, but still under secret service surveillance. >> he is never free in the sense that no one is watching him. >> almost two years, the hospital asked the judge for permission to release hinckley eventually to live full time in williamsburg. prosecutors are resisting with no end in site to the ongoing court fight. >> i think john hinckley will be a threat for the rest of his life. i think he is a time bomb. >> in the ford museum, just behind the reagan limousine is the convertible in which president john f. kennedy was shot to death in 1963. a hard top restored to the car after that murder. starting with abraham lincoln at the end of the civil war, nine presidents in and out of office have been targeted by gunfire, four of them killed. it has been 32 years since the last shots were fired at an american president, the longest such interval ever between assassination attempts. with each death, each near-miss, protection has gotten better. yet for the secret service, for a

i knew i would perform on the williamsburg bridge the minute i looked at it.s a matter of when. >> on the williamsburg bridge, ava is one of a few people with a camera on that bridge. >> a friend of mine e-mailed me the day of her performance and said come out today to the bridge. something amazing is going to happen. i brought my camera with me not really knowing what to expect. >> sharp and a fellow performer carrying a camera scale the tower in about seven minutes where she attaches her silk cloud swing 300 feet above the deck. >> the silk cloud swing is a double trapeze made out of silk. it opens so you can twist, spin side to side, back and forth. it basically gives an incredible versatility. >> once the swing is securely rigged, sharp begins her dance. >> as soon as i got there, she was sort of enrobed in the silk. that's when i started shooting. and i just thought, i'm committed to keeping the camera on her. >> i actually choreographed the scene as a duo, but at the last minute my partner decided that he didn't feel comfortable doing it. i ended up doin

the hasidic community in williamsburg, new york, is rallying around the family. trying to come to grips with what happened. >> they have all the resource there is to deal with it. all the psychological help that they need. the impact of it? as we all learned, is children children go to the grave with the parents. parents don't go to funerals of children and here we're going to have two sets of parents going. >> it's terrible. it's terrible. the one year not even married a year. and you know, they're going in for the happiest time to have a baby, that's what happens. horrible. >> now police tell me they are talking to the registered owner of that car, the bmw. no more details on who that is or who fled the scene. a funeral for the parents of the baby boy is expected to begin shortly, fred. >> so wait a minute, they know the they have the vehicle, because you say the two suspects fled on foot, they're talking to the person registered to the vehicle. is it believed it was a stolen vehicle or the person registered to the vehicle may know the suspects? >> those are ex

are grief stricken after attending an emotional funeral and burial following a horrific crash in williamsburg, brooklyn today. a young couple, 21-year-old parents to be were on their way to a hospital at about midnight saturday night, because the expectant mother wasn't feeling well. police say a hit and run driver crashed into the side of their cab, killing the couple. the dark colored cab was totalled. thanks to quick action by doctors at new york's bellevue hospital a premature baby boy, thigh months shy of his due date was delivered by c-section after his mother died. he was the couple's first child. the infant boy is in critical condition, relatives are standing watch. investigators are trying to track down the driver of a light colored bmw who fled the scene on foot. a passenger in the car also vanished. police will only say they spoke to the registered owner of that car, but not much more. we don't know whether the car was stolen. relatives and friends are trying to come to grips with what happened. >> just got along so beautifully. just lovely couple. and they're truly going to be mis

have you been to colonial williamsburg? >> bill: yes, i have. >> great place to go. next time you get ready to do the pinheads and patriots list, what you ought to do is brew yourself a nice cup of pinhead gunpowder tea. >> bill: do i get a piece of that or what? >> you get all three of them. look, whoever used pinhead gunpowder tea in the colonial ear remarks they get a piece. >> bill: i'm glad i can help out the good people in virginia. thank you. >> get angry have some pinhead tea. >> bill: calm me down pinhead gunpowder tee brand. carl rove there he is we're asking everybody to vote in our poll. conservatives actually helped barack obama by criticizing him over crazy stuff, the muslim thing, the birth certificate, yes or no. give you the results tomorrow. brit hume is next. things are going down hill in afghanistan very quickly and then later bernie goldberg on the colorado media sliming me. wait until you hear this, over jessica's law. we're coming right back. >> bill: i said this about our pal karzai in afghanistan. harmid karzai is in charge of afghanistan. an

emotional funeral and burial are already under way following that horrific hit and run cash in the williamsburgction of brooklyn today, as the hassidic jewish community rallies around the surviving family. a young couple, 21-year-old parents-to-be, were on their way to a hospital about midnight last night because the expectant mother wasn't feeling well. the cab was t-boned, smacked on the driver's side by a oncoming car, a light-colored bmw, the husband and the mother-to-be were dead on arrival. but the doctors were able to deliver the baby boy by c-section. police say the infant is in critical condition. relatives are standing watch. now, investigators, meantime, are trying to track down the drive over a light-colored bmw which fled the scene and the drivers and occupant fled the scene on foot. police will only say they have spoken to the registered owner of that car but not much more. we don't know yet whether the car was stolen. relatives and friends trying to come to grips with what happened. >> they have all the resources there to deal with it. all the psychological help they need. the im

i get the opportunity it hear one of their regional brokers management talk this week and williamsburg virginia. two thumbs up for morgan stanley. >> so banks, i mean, you have high hopes for most of the banks? >> morgan stanley, j.p. morgan. i think goldman is also a good buy. >> joe? >> surprising to me that there are more -- while a go we talked about hewlett-packard. we got the $20 and now there is a long neutral position, get out. >> simon? >> the housing stocks going up. earnings up 130%. if you like housing, own eagle materials. >> dr. j? >> stocks easing back a little bit today. buy into this one. a lot of activity on april, 35 calls. that's what did it for us. >> surging for its next move. is it going to be up? is it going to be down. you have a jobs report at the end of the report. anthony, you see that as the next big catalyst? the jobs report? >> either way? >> it is going to be a short term catalyst but obviously the mega big catalyst is with the fed. >> let me jump in. it'll be a catalyst because it will shape what the federal reserve puts out at the meeting just ten days

rumors surfacing that they have already signed a new deal in downtown manhattan as well as williamsburg. for full coverage on urban outfitters coming at you in less than 30 minutes, do not miss after the bell starting at 4 p.m. eastern. now we continue our "countdown to the closing bell." liz: breaking news on pimco's bill gross. dow jones industrials saying that the bond king cut back on his holdings of treasuries and mortgage this backed securities last month. when dow jones news wires is saying this, what is important to point out is that anytime bill gross makes a move, it's rather important here. so he is cutting back on, as we said, treasury and bond holdings. that was in february. so this is according to, i'm assuming, to an sec filing of some sort. but he has cut his mortgage-backed securities and treasury bond holdings in february. the bond king moving it back. tlt is just slightly higher. okay, let's get to nicole petallides. you kn a different strikeout for a retailer here. shares of dick's sporting goods, what is happening here? they came out with some less than expected exc

at this hour hurricane the hassidic jewish community williamsburg section of brooklyn is rallying around the surviving fam, sharing their grief at a funeral and burial, which according to custom is already taking place for the young couple. there is a lot of emotion as everyone is trying to come to grips with what happened. >> they have all the resources there to deal with it. all the psychological help they need. the impact of it as we are all learned as children go to the grave of the parents, parents don't go to funerals of children. and here we are going to have two sets of parents going. >> it's terrible. terrible. one year, not even married a year. you know, going in for the happiest time to have a baby and that's what happens. terrible. >> the driver of the cab survived and is in stable condition. relatives tell us the couple had been married less than a year. fred? >> and so, susan, were there eyewitnesses? will investigators be able to rely on those accounts to try find out the identity of these two people? >> that's good question. we have been trying to find that out, fred, but

looked at it in the 1940s, everything was coming up towards the middle, and now of course it's williamsburgng district west 42nd street. we're seeing a different city, but the new city tend to be on the edges. >> rose: go ahead. >> >> going back to something we take for granted. when you go to european cities in the biggest european cities railroads come in from the edges and stop. they're located on the periphery. it's often a big pain to get to them because you have to sort of go out of town to get to them. the innovations we with had was pen station and new york ran the trains underground and into the effort city. we joke about grand central not being grand central, but within 20, 30 years it was the center of new york. >> and it made itself the center. >> marvelously hidden. no open trenches, and it emphasize the the core against the edges in a way that was very un-european. very american, very new york. >> rose: i'm prejudiced on this question, but what really this story does of grand central and what this conversation does it reminds us of how lucky we are to live here in this city. >

and he makes the point in here that they decided at the williamsburg retreat their tactical decision calls it to emphasize sequester and to not have a threat of a government shutdown, do not have a threat over the next debt ceiling. so we don't have a countdown clock to -- when the government money would have run out, which is just a couple of days ago. but the president looked like he had to win at the end -- at the end of their last negotiation. so this memo does nothing to say about what they are going to do in the days ahead even though he says what happens in the days ahead are very important. >> josh and jon. josh first. what happens if you're a semi moderate, reasonably sensible party in that caucus? what happens? >> you switch parties. >> a good answer. yeah? >> look. it's tough. i think boehner is right to crow a little bit. they have prevented obama from getting more tax revenue but they have any' done much to broaden the appeal to the party and haven't gotten the entitlement reform and shrunk government the way they wanted to and i think still a challenge but they have con

what was interesting about that piece of clothing was when we had it conserved by the people of williamsburgginia. they found that the tiny but tons on the front of the dress were filled with dried peas. so that's what her dress maker did for her with french fashion also as she grew older and her hair became very very thin, she did have some real human hair curls sewed into her turbins and put that on in the morning with her curls showing and she looked younger she thought. the way the greensboro historical museum came into possession of these wonderful items including beautiful silk shoes and carved ivory calling cases is they received it from some folks who brought a trunk at auction that was sort of a hidden treasure. and i want to know what these ladies know about the finding of that trunk that was hidden behind a wall. and i want to say it was in philadelphia. but i want to know how the person that had that hidden behind the wall got those very important things and had them? >> i'll answer quickly because i want to say this is happening in the 1950's and 1960's so not that long ago. the

there used to be a williamsburg conference were members of congress and staff would be invited to discussinds of interest. and people had all sorts of ideas with that. lee campbell, who is judging the first circuit, was on a commission headed the commission called the judiciary is something that was written probably 20 something years ago in the 80s. they were considering different ways of restructuring or other reforms as the judiciary continued to grow in a caseload. i think and that you will find a variety of interesting ideas. what you want to do is the input increases, you don't want to diminish the output. but you won't have a more efficient way of getting to the same output. >> the judiciary has found that if a judge in a civil case gets into the litigation early, at times mediation and so forth, that you can reduce the caseload and maybe come to a settlement that the party thinks is efficient. that is costly for the judge. it takes a lot of time for the judge. if the case is not settled, some effort has been wasted. it is a matter of this consideration, that it is not seen as the

what was interesting about that piece of clothing was when we had it conserved by the people of williamsburg virginia. they found that the tiny but tons on the front of the dress were filled with dried peas. so that's what her dress maker did for her with french fashion also as she grew older and her hair became very very thin, she did have some real human hair curls sewed into her turbins and put that on in the morning with her curls showing and she looked younger she thought. the way the greensboro historical museum came into possession of these wonderful items including beautiful silk shoes and carved ivory calling cases is they received it from some folks who brought a trunk at auction that was sort of a hidden treasure. and i want to know what these ladies know about the finding of that trunk that was hidden behind a wall. and i want to say it was in philadelphia. but i want to know how the person that had that hidden behind the wall got those very important things and had them? >> i'll answer quickly because i want to say this is happening in the 1950's and 1960's so not that long ago.

one, chief justice burger used to have williamsburg conferences where he would invite members of congress, their staff as well as their judges to discuss all kinds of issues of interest in the judiciary of less interest in congress but some more interested and one year this was the subject, exactly this subject of how could you make the judiciary more efficient and people have a range of papers. testing, all sorts of ideas and i think that it would be perhaps interesting for you or your staff to read. the affair was lee campbell judging the first circuit was on a commission or head of the commission called the judiciary of the future or something and that was written probably 20 years ago in the east sometime and they were considering different ways of restructuring other reforms if the judiciary continued to grow in its caseload so i think in that you will find a variety of interesting ideas how to -- what you want to do as the input increases, you don't want to diminish the output by you want a more efficient way of getting to the scene output of getting it, you know, letting it drop a