people in there and they were going back and forth and then susan b anthony sits back and hires a workman have him shot off all of the gas lights. so then victoria is standing in the dark on the stage, and from that point, they would not speak to each other. they were also very good about corruption. they were talking about robber barons and wrote about it. all of the newspapers were run by robber barons, and they were trashed by them. the beecher dynasty was enormous. that is what fascinated me. >> other than the revelations that they wanted sex in the 19th century, you seem to have a lot of fun in this talk -- book. myra macpherson: yes i ended up splitting a one chapter into group and all of that -- one chapter into two and all of that but -- >> they are here to stay. do they have a movie deal yet? myra macpherson: we are working on it. [applause] myra macpherson: anybody else? know? -- no? well, thank you! host: thank you very much, and if you want to put your number on the screen, she will send the book to you, sign, and it will be shipped to you for no charge, and you can go to the

think about the 40-hour work week, weekends, child-labor laws, you know unemployment compensation, workman'sompensation, all those things were a result of bargaining between union and management. and i think if you respect that situation and not try to change the dynamic of it, i think you'll be better off and more successful. >> yeah. so much has been made of the -- well, let's call it the pension crisis in philadelphia. you allude to it there. it's not unique to this city by any stretch, but it is a drag on the city's bottom line, these sort of financial commitments that don't really exist in that form in the private sector. so how do you address this huge financial hole? >> first of all, the huge financial hole was not created by the employees. it was created by bad management of the pension fund. i think better management of the pension fund makes all the sense, and any changes that would enhance the health of the pension fund needs to be negotiated with your employees. you know, in this country, we have a labor/management relationship, and what you do is you sit across the table from ea

so you're saying the workman isn't the workman. the working man is at home. >> no the working man is at work and he votes tori. >> let's move it on. if you're wrong and the conservatives don't win a majority, does david cameron get re replaced very quickly. >> i think so. >> who takes over. >> i haven't the faintest idea. you think our constitution doesn't tell us what to do in a hung parliament. it doesn't tell us what to do when you lose a leader and we'll gou good-byes through go through what we went through last time. >> six months ago both parties were divided. so will the knives be out quickly if they don't get a majority. >> let's talk about the british economy going forward and on both extremes there's great dangers for the u.k. economy whether it be eu referendum or snp influencing flows and the eun union could be at stake. english votes and it could be the break up of the union. which is the biggest danger do you think? >> i think the biggest danger is believe any of that stuff you just went through. >> you don't think an

that he was looking to put anything over the fence but he got his website in there and it was like a workman speech where he walked through the boxes. but the message 1 almost identical than it was in 2012. and he's focused on the little guy. big money versus the little guy, and he set himself up as the populist, lunch pail conservative candidate. and that's who he has been for a while. it was a good message but this is a much more daunting field. mike huckabee is running on a similar message and if santorum gets traction, others in the field are going to as well. >> you mecked how rick santor um was able to get past the huckabees, and he has gone to the need of protecting social security. the theme of on the republican side ig to tap into the security that even republicans have. >> yes i think that's true. huckabee won in 2008 in iowa, and they say that 50% of the caucuses identify as evangelical. and 20% of that vote went to mitt romney. so they have to find a share of that vote to put themselves over the top. iowa is 10 vitally important but it's most important for rick santorum to win ag

god is a workman creator who created the earth come of the universe but was no longer directly involved in human affairs and he would consult reason rather than buy into the preachings of christianity that he felt had been defaced over centuries. jefferson thought the marriage of science and religion would provide more answers than just adhering to the faith of one set to another. organized religion was extremely skeptical and in fact the tyranny over the mind that is wrapped around the interior that the jefferson memorial was not about political tyranny. it was a letter to benjamin rush, who is like jefferson libertarian and the difference between them was rush believed in the divinity of jesus and jefferson did not. he never said he was defined. that letter that quote was about the politicization of jefferson's religion and the accusation he was an atheist in 1800. he was saying tyranny over the mind of man that they had nothing to fear from him. they have nothing to fear from him as a president. he was not going to burn bibles as they fear. all he believed in was the rights of consci

and they had signed a release with workman's compensation. >> reporter: annais's family couldn't suehey filed a lawsuit against pg&e and the company that pg&e hired. >> there was a terrible thing that happened at camp tawonga, and i have every reason to believe it could have been avoided. >> reporter: the last arborist who inspected the tree before told the director he was concerned about the oak. david isaacs who worked for a pg&e subcontractor said i felt i had a moral obligation to say something to somebody at the camp that if that tree was in my kid's back yard and the swing set was there, i couldn't want the tree there. >> reporter: no one responded to our requests for multiple interviews. but we do have this. four days worth of testimony from the executive director ken cramars. he defended the camp saying removal was never suggested or considered but when asked if it was his opinion that the trees at camp tawonga was what made it a special place, he answered yes. >> in my view, to hell with that. >> reporter: and long before concerns about the oak that fell, we found that camp

workman there trying to take the massive tree apart. >>> up next at 11:00. vampire energy sucking your wallet dry. why energy experts say it's costing billions of dollars a year. >>> plan accordingly. one bay area bridge closed this weekend. >>> wide open for beautiful, beautiful sunshine today. those clouds clearing out as we speak. we've got a gorgeous mother's day weekend coming your way. and you know what? we're getting deeper into may. we have more rain in the forecast and snow for tahoe. we'll tell you when nbc bay area news at 11:00 comes right back. >>> and welcome back. a look at the nasdaq opened this morning. up about 50 points. the dow industrials up better than 250 points this morning. now, what caused that really good jobs news? more than 200,000 jobs were added in the month of april. the unemployment rate falls to 5.4%. the lowest it's been in seven years. we were worried about a trend maybe of fewer jobs added. we certainly saw that in march. but in april jobs came roaring back. >>> yelp jumped after news leaked the company might be trying to

fremont construction company could each get four years in jail after a jury convicted them in a workman'sthe man died when a dirt wall caved in on him in milpitas three years ago. yesterday the owner and his project manager were both convicted of involuntary manslaughter. deadly accident happened three days after a city building inspector had issued a "stop work" order. >>> new police recruits in san francisco get their first big test when they catch two burglary suspects in the act. the recruits were on their way to an assignment for bay to breakers sunday morning when they saw the smash-and-grab happening at a diesel store on market. 55-year-old dale brackner and 37-year-old cory lawler were arrested. police say both were carrying merchandise from the store. the recruits are still 12 weeks away from graduating. >>> santa clara county could raise the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 up to 21. the board of supervisors will discuss that proposal, which includes electronic smoking devices, next month. san jose and palo alto are also considering raising that age limit. >>> it is 5:56. a driv

what attracted you about the workman ship and desire to make such beautiful pens?nterested in woodworking. my dad is a do it yourselfer. i thought this would be cool. >> how many collections do you have now? >> oh my gosh, too many to count. we have a lot. >> how do you manage the business? with the help of your dad. do you have other people that come in and help? >> pretty much me and my dad. he help sos much. i couldn't do it without hill. managing the school and business can be hard at times. school always comes first. >> this is you working on one of your pens. the purple one here is a beauty. how many hours of work is put into this? >> takes about an hour to make each pen. >> to make each pen. you're grinding it out for an hour. you put the designs on there. can people have custom orders as well? >> yes, we do custom orders. >> do you have a favorite? >> i love the arrow. that's these ones up here. >> and this collection here. tell me about this. this has history behind it as well. >> these are our historical collection. we have about 20 historical woods at mo

. >> lester holt is no one's idea of a buzzy star but he's a workman-like professional popular newsman who brings the credibility to that news desk that nbc badly needs. >> i'm told that when he was out in california recently accepting an honorary degree andy lack and the head of nbc news came with him. they had a meeting at the l.a. bureau with the staff and perhaps that was a show of support for holt. one of the weird things is they're not promoting holt. they're not saying he's the okay yar. he's just the fill-in. >> everyone involved realizes lester is taking one for the team. he's in an unpleasant situation. he's in limbo and i think they want to do everything possible to show their support for him not just to show the support but also because he is so popular in the ranks. >> you dive down so deep into the story for "vanity fair." wrote one of the definitive stories about what went wrong. are you surprised we're still talking about this that there hasn't been an announcement by nbc? >> no i'm not. from the beginning i felt nbc was going to take as long as possible to come up with

. >> i saw one workman, david, who was ducking down under the water trying to pull these sandbags out. another man had hold of his hand. >> the worker successfully removes all but one of the bags, but there's one last bag still blocking the drain. david dives into the murky water to grab it. >> nobody sort of realized what had actually happened because everyone had thought, oh, he's just pulling another sandbag up. when he didn't come back up, all hell broke loose. >> the force of the water on top of the bag pushed it through the drain and took him with it. he was above the water, still at that stage, but his legs were wedged into the pipe. >> by removing the bag, david unplugs the drain, and now the pressure of the gushing water pushes so forcefully, it sucks david's legs into the drain. >> i jumped into the water to try and help remove him from the drain. his legs were wedged into the pipe. >> firemen, the roadworkers, they all just dived in and just trying to pull him up. >> fighting the incredible force of water, the workers are able to get his head up. he's gasping for air, and t

they still had workman that needed the work. the elegance of the house is a description of 1840 of a man who comes in and says he stood in the elliptical saloon as the blue room was called. "i stood under a chandelier that began to napoleon." it had that french cachet. mr. seale: but it was controversial. ms. swain: it was. miss munro had lost a little boy and she was not social anymore. she has been presented in the past as a wilting flower. she was no wilting flower. she was in paris. the word got to them that madame lafayette whose mother and grandmother and sister had been guillotined -- that she was next. they concocted this scheme where mrs. monroe who was a knockout beauty dressed up to the nines, got in her carriage, and drove through the streets slowly and finally came to the prison and the coachman got down and gave her card to the dl are. it rattled everything -- card to the jailer. a young woman came to the gate and they embraced. she was released the next day. mrs. monroe was not a wilting flower. you cannot show me

the audience is going to see it i think the republicans have a very big incentive to make this a workmane are the things that have already been addressed we're not going to worry about those things. big incentive to do that. >> if this is about slogan airing it's not going to play well for them. >> we'll see that in just a couple weeks. thanks for coming in. six republicans, secretary clinton on the trail, about to testify for congress not anywhere near labor day 2016 but seems -- >> i know you've been stretching and working out and practicing your cardio so you're fit and ready to go. thanks john. >>> isis is claiming responsibility for sunday's attempted ambush in texas and warning of more to come. was the prophet muhammad art exhibit in texas free speech or provocation? we'll discuss next. apples may fall, but the apples of your cheeks don't have to. defy gravity with juvÉderm voluma®. the first and only injectable gel approved by the fda to instantly add volume to your cheek area. as you age, it's not just about lines and wrinkles. your cheeks lose volume and can sag. voluma instantl