and my father was very ambivalent about going to newfoundland. but as a dad we need to research the story. but as we approached the rock, newfoundland, as we called it, i looked out and i was just overwhelmed the emotion of coming to this island where my ancestors had lived in my grandfather was born. and i turned to my dad and i said, did you ever think you're going to newfoundland? and he said, not in a million years. and i was terrified because i thought, what is this trip going to be like? isn't going to be really emotional? and it was in poor. we were meeting people that kept saying your father was a great men. and my dad would say, well, he deserted us. so it's kind of a mixture of emotion. but a good piece, we interviewed so many of these mr. towns, men and women, who remembered that storm and remembered the night it came there and many of them saw spirits. they saw spirits. they are all very irish. so they're superstitious. the night of the deal, many of them saw their fathers who returned to their homes. so it was a very interesting stor

newfoundlanders are so -- family means more than anything to them. and i think that's such a great, you know, value. growing up my father, despite being abandoned, he always said to us there's nothing more important than family. and i think that's because he knew his father abandoned him. and newfoundlanders, i mean, if you're their cousin, they can't do enough for you. so for me the piece is, as well, there's nothing more than important than family. and i learned that through this book in ways. >> and now if from booktv's recent visit to providence, rhode island, author and pulitzer prize-winning journalist michael stanton talks about his book, "the prince of providence." >> the prince of providence is the story of buddy cianci who was our longest serving mayor in rhode island history and one of the more colorful mayors you'll find anywhere in the country. he was part huey long and part soprano. he was this lovable rogue who helped transform this dying industrial city of providence into a city that was rated one of america's most livable by a number

william founded a medical mission in newfoundland, and a fundraiser they had were hooked rugs or mats sold down to the boston states, meaning new york to sell rugs to the hospital. the rugs were made out of stockings, and in the -- in the boston states, in boston and new york, they told women, when your stockings run, let them run to newfoundland because they used them to hook the rugs. this is, obviously, a bear with geese in the back. next we have scarecrows that scare the birds from your garden, looking realistic with real clothing and stoic expressions from the valley in the 20th century. this is a checker board depighting two players at one end with their pipes and smoke in action while the dog turns his back. at the other end, if you can stand on your head, you'll see a hunter just bagging a bird. it is the same dog, but he's poised in anticipation of retrieving a prize. this came from quebec about 1850 made out of pine. another hooked rug. this is modeled after a painting by lawrence daniel in quebec showing the generic architecture of the village in winter. those of you who kn

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line of fog rolling over a mountain range caught on camera happening in a small fishing village of newfoundland. >> looked like a smaller version. >> the wildfire has nearly quad troubled in size. the flames which started on saturday is one percent changed since that time. it is down 9 percent. to get the latest let's go to maria molina. low humidity and the winds will see about 35 miles to the west. we have an elevated fire danger in the morning hours to the afternoon. in california the warnings have been lifted because you are starting to see a little bit of an increase in moisture. that is welcome news. we have tropical depression it's not forecast to intensify with the hurricane but it is forecast to pump in the moisture to the southwest. we will be seeing some much needed rain across some of the areas. good news parts of utah and nevada. only person is parts of california may be using the rain. that could be a concern of course. otherwise temperature wise beautiful in the northeast. it will be a beautiful weekend as well in saturday and sunday with low humidity midwest upper 80s today. tab

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>>reporter: so an emergency landing in newfoundland safe but passengers stuck. broken plane and no hotel. forced to sleep on chars. benches. anywhere. >> people were slipping on the flar of the bathroom. on the counter in the bathroom. all over the floor in the airport. >>reporter: hours passed. from us stated passengers took e patience wore out 12 hours ago. police get your story straigh straight. been signature on floor for hours now and plane hasn't left london.where are our hotel rooms. up acceptabl acceptable. visual intweeted too unfortunately hotel respectful. >> air lane is offing a round trip ticket to passengers and added in a statement an apology for any inconvenience caused. david curlly abc news washington. >> a lot of inconvenience sounds lick. >> if a is to face. 2 animal find unlikely friendship. great stor ♪ [ male announcer ] wouldn't it be great if all devices had backup power? the chevrolet volt does. it's ingeniously designed to seamlessly switch from electricity to gas to extend your driving range. no wonder volt is america's best-selling

really don't want to be a citizen of canada living in thunder bay or remote stretches of nova scotia and newfoundland. >> so about texas and your little feud, you've got a feud going here with rick perry. which i think is a combination of your attitude toward texas and what rick perry doesn't know about new york. which would you most like to instruct him on? feel free to go in any direction you want. >> i would just like -- well, actually, i'd just like to instruct him on -- i think if he's got this time off from governor, maybe to kind of go back to just -- it's not even new york. just go back to college and start over and take really another four years and let's look at the world again, rick, and this time try to memorize some stuff and pay attention in class and things like that. i mean, the fact that -- he may run for president again. if that happens, i -- i mean, as a comedian i'm thrilled. but as a citizen i weep. >> now, speaking of college, you just gave your first commencement address and we have a little piece of it here that i want the world to take a look at. >> someone who believes since

pilots reported a fuel leak mid flighted so they landed the plane in newfoundland in canada. virgin airline officials say they were unable to book rooms for the stranded passengers so people had to sleep wherever they could inside the terminal. virgin atlantic has apologized and offered passengers a round trip ticket. the white house says british authorities acted on their own and it denies that it had anything to do with the detention of a man named david her ran da. life partner of greenwald on the right. journalist who broke the story edward snowden. british officials held him nine hours at london's heathrow airport. they let him go not before they confiscated laptop, camera and memory sticks among other property. today the white house admitted that british officials did indeed give them a heads up before they have detained-mile-an-hour ran davment. >> lauren: wald says britain will be sorry for detaining his partner and that he will soon publish many more democratics on the u.s. and england. catherine herridge with this from washington tonight. catherine. >> the obama adm

. >> reporter: so an emergency landing in newfoundland, safe but the passengers were stuck, a broken plane and ni hao tells forced to sleep on chairs, benches, anywhere. >> people were sleeping on the floor of the bathroom and on the counters in the ballotroom all over the floor in the airport. >> reporter: hours passed, frustrated passengers took to twitter and matt roberts wrote "patience wore out 2e7b hours ago. please get your story straight." another, "been sitting only yell yum floor in gandhi for hours now and plane hasn't left." virgin tweeted "unfortunately, hotels are full." >> i had never experienced anything like that so that was quite an ordeal for me. >> reporter: this morning the airline is of 0ing a round trip ticket to passengers and added in a statement overnight an apology for any inconvenience caused. an inconvenience, an ordeal that finally ended with a two-hour plus flight 214 on a replacement plane delivering them to jfk sunday night at 7:00, nearly a full day late. for "good morning america," david kerley, abc news, washington. >>> that's some weekend, huh? >>

. >> reporter: so, an emergency landing in newfoundland, safe but the passengers were stuck, a broken plane and no hotels, forced to sleep on chairs, benches, anywhere. >> people were sleeping on the floor of the bathroom and on the counters in the bathroom all over the floor in the airport. >> reporter: hours passed, frustrated passengers took to twitter and matt roberts wrote to virgin -- "patience wore out ten hours ago. please get your stories straight." another, "been sitting only linoleum floor in gandy for hours now and plane hasn't left." virgin tweeted "unfortunately, hotels are full." >> i had never experienced anything like that so that was quite an ordeal for me. >> reporter: this morning the airline is offering a roundtrip ticket to passengers and added in a statement overnight an apology for any inconvenience caused. an inconvenience, an ordeal that finally ended with a two-hour-plus flight on a replacement plane delivering them to jfk sunday night at 7:00, nearly a full day late. for "good morning america," david kerley, abc news, washington. >> that's some weekend, huh

it was shot in newfoundland, canada. vehicles crashed causing a fire. instead of calling a fire truck, in swoops the fire bomber and puts out the flames. if only it was that easy to call one in. >> here comes one now! >> don't turn around, al. >>> breaking news, mr. roker, it is your birthday. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> what do you get for the guy that has everything? a vine. i'm going to tape a vine and tweet it to you. that's the thing you love more than anything. >> i do like the vine. thank you. let's show you, boy, we have had really serious weather in the philippines. we're talking about three feet of water in the streets of manila, up to 60% of the city has been submerged but folks just keep walking along like nothing is wrong, nothing is happening. we have a lot of wet weather in the southeast. it's going to continue raining again. more heavy rain through the southeast today. one to two inches generally, and this rain has been all summer long. we're talking about rainfall amounts, miami, take a look at how much rain they've had so far this year,

this is from larkspur in n newfoundla newfoundland. it's fog coming over the mountains. it's not sped up. that's amazing stuff. >>> let's go out west. we have over 50 fires burning across eight states. that's bad news. you can see the fire watches and the red flag warnings going on, and in fact we've got good news/bad news. moisture is flowing in with a storm system coming in there. you can see we're going to start to see stuff firing up. the good news is there's more moisture. the bad new is there will be lightning strikes that could set >>> 7:40 now. yes, we do think you're beautiful, al. temperatures are looking good today. we have plenty of low cloud cover at the immediate coast. it's going to feel more like the bay area today. we're done with the dry lightning strikes, at least for the time being. the let humidity, you'll notice that when you walk out your door. 73 for fremont. we have read flag warnings posted for the ukiah clearlake region. otherwise we continue to dry out through the up coming weekend and temperatures drop off. our latest weather. matt? >> all ri