what did you learn about harper lee and her reasons? >> well, i was fortunate enough to get great access to two very close friends of her. a new york city couple who gave their friend, harper lee, money. they remain very, very close dear friends to this day. the other person i was also very privileged and fortunate to talk to was alice finch, harper lee's older sister. alice is one of the first women in alabama who was ever admitted to the bar. she -- at 99 she's the oldest practicing attorney in the state. she continues to practice every day, and she hopes to celebrate her 100th birthday in september at her law desk. she was quite a character and told me quite a bit about how the lee girls were raised. and her answer to that question is, she quoted her sister saying, she couldn't top what she had done. she had nowhere to go but down. and i think the combination of this kind of overwhelming thing, the somewhat autobiographical nature of what was written about and not to disappoint yourself let alone the other people out there waiting fo

honoring harper lee is a great idea. choosing the right or who highlights the role of lawyers in society as a great idea and so we were able to define a role for this with the university of alabama school of law. we were honored to do so and it's especially fitting that the first winner v. john grisham who could have won the award and number of years ago had award existed at the time. is a very deserving winner and we are delighted to present it to them. we know they're going to be many future winners who are going to be quite deserving as well and we hope people are inspired to write the good stories. the particular book he wrote, the confession, i know many of you have read it is especially timely. it was a remarkably good job and does tell a good story. the american bar association is the world's largest voluntary professional organization and this is one of those good things we do that we are delighted to partner with sowed teen thank you at the university of alabama law school thanks you too. [applause] >> as you pr

hill harper is up next. stay with us. tavis: pleased to have hill harper, the actor continues his role on chris: and is out on -- "csi:ny" . when i first saw this book come across my desk. hill harper is now suesey ormond and writing books about relationships and wealth. until i actually got in the book and i understood why you were compelled to write this. and as a back story to why you are writing the book. >> it's a combination thing. with my foundation, i deal with a lot of young people, old folks, and we talk about what do you want your life to look like? and most of them come back with an excuse centered around money, i would go to school but i don't have the cash, so i wanted to deal into money and wealth. i was in atlanta shooting a movie for "colored girls." and i woke up one morning and i couldn't swallow and i called a doctor in atlanta and we did a biopsy and i was diagnosed with a pretty serious form of thyroid cancer and in the midst of writing this book, it made me take a step back and that's what the title

harper lee and john grisham. they can be assured that as long as you have libraries, their work will be content to be honored. [applause] to >> thank you or roberta appeared looking around this room we can recognize that it has today. you honor us with your presence, but i want to single out an insured mr. grisham or two later on any representatives random house. sunny made a comic genius and trauma and the rest of the publishing team vote rick is with a round of applause as well. [applause] we had an outstanding committee to select this book he had. so many books nominated theater group in tuscaloosa and also that narrowed the field down to three books that we had an outstanding selection committee. go in alphabetical order. david baldacci's best-selling author. her his first novel was in 1986 and a media docents published for the 20 novels is an original screenplays with his wife, michelle known for their philanthropic work with a wish foundation promoting adult literacy and he received his jd from university o

detectives in harper county have captured three of the county's most wanted criminals. two of the three have violent pasts, and are facing charges involving handguns. all three of the men have been fugitives for years. >>> and sheriffs in queen ann's county have arrested a man they believe has been breaking into cars. they captured hip after posting a video of several of those break-ins on facebook. he was caught this morning and taken into police custody. >>> and maryland's public research group is out with their list of the most dangerous toys. , such oas choking hazards, unhealthy levels of lead, or simple i toys that tour loud. -- simply toys that are too loud. >>> we are looking at a tough commute right now. a mess, absolutely. where is the heaviest rain right now? well, primarily it is north and east of the baltimore area. we have real heavy bands up through westminster through the northern part of the county here from, say, oh, about toward t inoium northward. and then a big surge of rain coming up towards spare rows point, and this is impacting kent county. so

before harper county had become a county. emily graham was his last living descendant, upon her death at the age of 94, she left the land and her mother's family home to the county with a few expert witness they must building a performing arts center theoremmerton elementary school. >> her name, her legacy continues. both in the performing arts arena, and in the passive park where you could simply go and meditate if you wanted to for instance or simply be confronted with snag makes you think from the art side. either way, she would be making people think for generations to come. >> reporter: jeff hager, abc2 news. >>>>> the widow died four years ago. the court had to deal through four wills. it is waiting the actual deed. >>> farmers in the midwest are getting good news for a change. their farmland is worth a lot more than it was last year. according to to two new federal reserve surveys, lands in part of the renal 25% since last year. that's the highest increase in some 30 years. successful harvest and higher farmer incomes

sadly, that never came. >> i cannot imagine what drove harper to silence. >> thank you. i prefer to pass. >> what did you say? >> well, i have nothing relevant to say concerning the case. however, when i have something relevant to say i shall raise my hand. >> stepped on you. >> serious doubt about your becoming a mother. [laughter] >> you are a son of a bitch. >> scout, that's the most intelligent thing you have said today. now, take your seat. >> the greatest counterculture lawyer of all-time. his trials have garnered him acclaim as one of the greatest criminal defense lawyers of all century. he's the white tornado in court, the semantic samurai, a shaman, a trickster by others, "lush for justice "by tony serra is a no holds bar description of a man, his belief and the legal system he serves and transforms. filled with murder, drugs and death penalty cases, snitches, the psychological elements of crime, the nullification of and nexus with juries, closing arguments and more. "lust for justice" gets the black robe off the justice system to review what it is, a railroad f

elena harper was watching the 4-year-old daughter of sandy beltran. the single mother worked at tgifriday's. when beltran was supposed to pick up the little girl on sunday, she never showed up. the 23-year-old had been killed on an accident on route 3. but harper, who had only known beltran for about a month, refused to let the little girl fall into foster care. my main concern, other than what happened with sandy, was alani and making sure she felt safe and was secure where she was. >> harper cared for the little girl until her grandparents arrived from california yesterday. >>> united airlines said that poor training is causing safety problems, including three flights that almost landed without the landing gear down. pilots released a report on new united flying procedures that it considers to be overbearing. the report says that two pilots were so distracted that their landing gear was not down until just seconds before the plane touched down. united says the union's claims are baseless and part of an attempt to influence current contract negotiati

. >> dick noble followed by james, and then brian harper. >> good afternoon. i have been a street artist for 35 years. i do not want to lose those bases. i do not want to see the congestion increase. there is a stock that will back up traffic all the way down beach street. if we have a muni stop right there on the corner of hide and beach, it is maybe going to not have room for the trolley to get there because of the traffic being backed up. it is quick to add to congestion. if another cable car is coming down hyde street and has to let up passengers while this is going on, people are going to be walking around, wondering where to go. the block before or a block after it, the congestion would be a lot less. >> james mallard followed by brian harper. >> we have a map and a him out. -- hand out. >> i will use this. can we just hand these to the end of the people there, and they can take them? thanks. i do not know how to use this thing. >> you will be receiving a map and a flier on this issue. i have been in st. barts for over 25 years. i am the author of this p

(train whistle) harper's ferry, west virginia. it was here at the confluence of two rivers the potomac and schenn and dough a that george washington first decided to build a federal armory in 1794 in what was then virginia, the largest slave-holding state in the young country. and it was here on october 16, 1859, that john brown made his famous raid seeking to end slavery forever. the story is told in a new book: midnight rising: john brown and the raid that sparked a civil war. author tony horowitz joined me at harper's ferry recently to talk about a man and event that continued to resonate, fascinate and con found down to our own time. >> religious fundamentalism? the right of the individual to oppose their government? all these issues are still troubling and relevant. that's why i think brown is still with us. he worries us. what do we do with this home grown american terrorist? >> brown: where did his fervor, his hatred of slavery come from? and his sort of maniacal sense that he was right? >> he comes from a very old school c

sits right in the middle of harper county's area. it strike thats route 124. some say this will turn into the county's central park. >> she had always wanted somehow, in some way to preserve the land in a basically natural state, promote education concerning past agricultural practices, to promote, she had a love of the arts. >> listen to this, one of her conditions, was that the county build a performing arts center on the parse l right near the elementary school. nobody can remember such a large donation in property in such a prime spot. before the shovel hits, the county has to triple check all the paperwork on this. >>> there are many communities that people would like to live in, but have you considered are the smartest? which community in maryland ranked the highest across the country? >>> before you start your oven for the thanksgiving meal or stuff the refrigerator, we're going to tell you thousand make sure your appliances will supply the extra work, wyatt. >>> good to know. also good to note temperature. 58 at dwi. we bumpe

skate board that would become a ticket to his better reality, pro skate boarder, darren d streets, harper what is going on welcome. >> i'm well. >> h you home for the holidays. >> yes, ma'am. >> we are glad you stopped by with your skate board in hand of course i got to start this story from the beginning how did you start skate boarding? >> well, i grew up in the neighbourhood of savannah terrace, southeast, and i found my first skate board around, early 90s late 80s my first skate board. >> you literally found it. >> yeah it was in a pile of furniture in the hood you know we see a lot of evictions from people being set up and i found my first one there. >> you picked it up this is -- that right there that move right there may not have been something a lot of kids did at 8 or 9 because it just wasn't something seen a lot. >> no, it wasn't too popular coming from the streets, just in the neighbourhood you know, we were more playing basketball, football, doing more -- i won't says the common because it is kind of stereo typing it just saying, we were skate boarding back then but not doing

harper said canada would try to sell the oil to china and other asian markets. allegations of sexual abuse now shaking the citadel, the south carolina military college. officials said this weekend they regret they did not further pursue a 2007 complaint against youth camp counselor louis reville who was accused of showing pornography and performing a sex act in front of two boys five years earlier. he was-- and the cloud of sex abuse charges still hangs heavy over penn state university tonight. cbs news chief investigative correspondent armen keteyian has more from a campus in disarray. >> a sleepy sunday morning on penn state's campus belied the storm still swirling around the university. >> this is going to be something that the penn state community is going to be reliving for weeks and years in advance of this. >> reporter: the pennsylvania attorney general, department of education and the school itself, have all launched investigations into the child sex abuse scandal, focused on penn state's response to allegations that former star defensive coach jerry san

the president and prime minister stephen harper. they actually met for 15 minutes during a break from apac. the meeting reportedly went on for 25 minutes. prime minister harper pushing for the keystone pipeline deal to be approved. president obama continues to delay the project while prime minister harper has been very adamant they will look into the possibility of selling canada's oil and gas to asian countries. on capitol hill congressman lee terry says this deal needs to get done because it can create jobs. >> for the state of nebraska alone it is about 4 to 6,000 jobs for the pipeline running all the way from the border to down to texas, it is 20,000 instantaneous construction jobs. snen when you add refineries in there and expansions to the refineries up to 100 to 200,000 jobs. >> reporter: those are a lot of jobs and that total jobs number is still under question and still being disputed. but the bottom line here canada's prime minister, stefen harper will continue to push president obama to get this deal done. back to you. >>

elena harper was watching the 4-year-old daughter of sandy beltran as that single mother worked at a tgifriday's restaurant. when beltran was supposed to pick the little girl up early on sunday morning, she never showed up. the 23-year-old had been killed in a hit and run accident on route 3 in bowie. but harper, who only had known beltran for about a month, refused to let the little girl fall into foster care. >> my main concern outside of really wondering what was happening with sandy was alani and just making sure that she felt safe and that she was secure where she was. >> elena harper cared for the young girl until her grandparents arrived from california yesterday. >>> heads up. if your commute takes you through the tyson's corner area, the nasty traffic there is about to get even uglier for the next couple of months. overnight, vdot crews closed one of the two lanes that takes you from eastbound leesburg pike, that's route 7, onto the outer loop of the beltway. the lane closure is part of the hot lanes project. it will remain closed for the next eight weeks. >>> there's a good

harper-collins paid for the plane and i met this very nice man, who was a theater critic and then -- he wrote "at lunch with." we talked about "the professor and the madman." i flew back to the arctic. the publicists lady asked what this was about. when the new york times says jump, you say "how high." they said they hoped it would be on the front page of the arts section. every monday in june and july and august -- she said, this will be at the front of the arts section. this is wonderful and he loved the book, this is the good news, but the bad news is that next monday, it is labor day. no one is going to purchase 'the new york times." it rained from dusk until dawn, and they had nothing to do. they didn't go out to barnes and noble. they went to amazon. it got to number one. what great fortune was that? and ever since then, the books have done better than before. >> why did she not just talk to him on the phone? >> it is extremely expensive. and to go back to that call -- with the publicist, she said, we need you to get to new york. >> i said i am thousands of miles away but she s

that is the key. >> bret: maybe the meeting with prime minister harper had benefits. >> they are making an offer he can't refuse. at some point, he is not going to win on the base. he has been unsummitting them. he needs to make sure it's not a black eye for environmentalists. >> bret: charles, i want to ask about iran. the president said he came in to office the world was divided. now the world is united isolating iran. he said the u.s. is in a stronger position than we were two or three years ago on iran. he said it at a news conference last night. he did not mention the planned attack tied to iran of the saudi ambassador to kill him. what about that statement? >> what you have is mistaking ends and means. that you succeeded in the policy against arab if you have a strong perso strong westd front. but it's only means for program. he can have as strong affront as he wants but iran is closer to a bomb today than he was when he entered office. what we have under his policy a strong-unit west. the object is stop, slow down the program. to boast about iran isolation when chinese and russia

. >> reporter: retired colonel rich harper said the three did the right thing. last week, the air force nouned -- announced the punishment of three top officials for gross mismanagement. an investigation found at least two facilities where they lost parts of human remains that were shipped home from afghanistan. the three whistle-blowers said they went outside their chain of command after their supervisors failed to address the situation. >> reporter: harper said he was surprised the whistle-blowers were overridden by their superiors. >>> getting trapped inside a wrecked car. police say a man crashed his car off the road friday, with his 9-year-old daughter inside. it took police two days to find the vehicle. the driver was killed, but police say the girl survived the crash and was able to eat pop-tarts while waiting for help to arrive. >>> in today's wjz health watch, if you suffer from migraine headaches or know someone who does, you know how painful they can be. but now, a small device is offering to help rid the head of pains. manuel gallegus has more from p

>> jane freedman, the ceo of harper, they ordered 10,000 to be printed. they had no belief, reasonable belief that a book about lexigography would sell. it is in the low millions. >> you are still living off it? >> you could say. to be realistic,the book business -- i am happy i did not buy a porsche. nowadays, when you are a writer,it is a highwire existence. >> give us a minute synopsis so they can wonder what is "professor and the madman?" can they still buy it? >> it is w.c. miner, who came from new haven and was a military doctor during the civil war. something unpleasant happened to him. he became seriously mad. his parents knew john ruskin. this is in the 1870's. he did not get better at all and he shot someone dead. an irishman. he was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. he was in a huge limit asylum, -- limit asylum. -- lunatic asylum are and he befriended, incredibly, the widow of the man that he had shot dead. she would bring books and he found -- left in by the bookseller, a brochure that had been put out by james murray, of the

anthony parker is accused of killing philip wise at harpers farm road on september 13. he turn himself in to police. police say the victim was homeless. it is life behind bars for a man convicted of stabbing to death and active duty marine at the victim's birthday party in january. police say after being asked to leave the party, 28-year-old michael wiggins returned with two knives and attacked private darius ray. he was convicted of first-degree murder, assault, and other counts. two other men involved were convicted of assault charges. the west baltimore man wants answers and an apology after city police raided his home looking for someone who does not live there. arnold armstrong says he was watching television with friends when four officers kicked in the door, handcuffed his friends, and search upstairs for 30 to 45 minutes. >> i kept insisting -- he believes there are weapons, but they still left. if you believe there is nothing in this house, why did you leave? no apology or anything. if you are wrong, you should say you are wrong. >> police officials tell 11 new

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. >>> well, detectives in harper county have plenty to be thankful for this week. they captured three of the county's most 10 wanted fugitives. an unlicensed contractor who scammed a number of people, who two men with violent pasts are now behind bars. all three men had been on the run for years. they were all captured within the last five days. much more on their arrest at 6:00. >>> police arrested a man wanted for murder after he showed up at jail to serve time on another charge. cornelius johnson arrived to serve his seven days in jail, and police found that there was an arrest warrant for murder. he is being held without bail. >> a registered sex offender was arrested in connection with suspicious behavior. james oliver is charged with parole violation. they say he was working in the south river colony community on november 14th when a man in a red truck pulled up next to him. the man rolled down his window and asked the boy if he wanted a ride. the child ran away and reported the behavior to the school. the next day a similar incident was reported, and police