Household labor. It included three women and two men. We had a portrait of marys stepmothers mother. She is said to be a formative influence on mrs. Lincoln. She was welleducated, she spoke french fluently. She is also interesting with her views in regard to slavery. In her will, she chose to provide for the gradual freeing of her slaves after her death. This represents her political position of gradual emancipation. This is the dining room of the home. This is where they would have entertained other prominent families of the day, including politicians. One of the greatest politicians and a neighbor of the todds was henry clay. Leader of the whig Political Party. Her father was also a member of that Political Party. They shared some political ideas, especially in regard to slavery. They supported the american colonization society, the movement to resettle blacks back to liberia. This is what she was exposed to as a child. This was the gentlemans parlor, a formal area of the house. Acco
Quintanilla. Good evening. The historic wildfire season in california has taken another turn for the worse. This one is called the valley firl north of sacramento, and in just 224 hours its grown to some 60 square mete miles. Thats more than double the size of manhattan. Its destroyed hundreds of homes, gutted cars on the highway, and forced thousands to evacuate. Its one of a dozen major fires now raging across the state, and nbcs Gotti Schwartz is there starting us off. Good evening. Good evening, carl. The devastation out here is absolutely staggering. This right here used to be a row of ten houses. You can see they have been completely incinerated. I also want to show you this right there. You see that. That is natural gas still burning, still flaming. Last night we saw and we heard natural gas and propane blowing up all around us. Reporter the roads are surrounded. Its a town set ablaze. Now, this is main street middletown. You can see theres all kinds of torching going on. Theres
Make those talks reality. In italy, populist parties may not have won the election, but early projections show they upset the chances for any other party to take a majority. But first we dive into hollywoods biggest night. All the major winners and the biggest political moments from this Years Academy awards. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and of course from all around the world. Im rosemary church. And im George Howell from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. News newsroom starts right now. It was a big, exciting night fair to say in hollywood. The 90th Academy Awards show. But along with the glitz and glamour, we saw an industry reckoning with scandal and controversy and forging a new path ahead. The host of the show jimmy kimmel, set the tone early on, calling out gender and racial inequality in hollywood. He still managed to keep the mood fun, though, celebratory and optimistic. Presenter shown a light on the me too campaign and other movements
Happening. I hope thats true. We will be meeting and well see if anything positive happens. I want to bring in cnn White House Correspondent boris sanchez. What is the white house saying about this call . Reporter unexpected news from the gridiron dicnner, it doesnt usually break news that way. Kind of surprising the president discussed diplomacy there in the way he did. He was joking but it appears he was somewhat serious about potentially moving forward with direct talks between the United States and north korea. Basing it yet again on the precondition that north korea must denuclearize before there are communications between the two countries. North korea was paying attention and put out a statement writing the u. S. That was terrified at the Rapid Development of our Nuclear Force and continued to knock the door of dialogue, now fains an indifference and advances this or that precondition. Not being content with it, it insists it will have dialogue only for making the dprk amanned o
House colleagues. Some say, pointblank, kelly is not telling the truth. Kelly saying he learned about a serious accusation of Domestic Abuse against porter february 6th. That is the day the daily mail asked him for a response. The allegations, of course, were about verbal and physical abuse against porter by both of his exwives and a girlfriend who lived with him. Get this, the chief of staff says he never thought of putting over the handling of the debach l saying i have nothing to consider resigning over. Okay. Its no surprise that thats the statement or white house staffers say kelly isnt telling the truth because cnn reported they were aware of the allegations early last fall. None of this february 6th or 7th business, whatever it is. The day after it broke, the defense wasnt that he didnt know, it was that he wasnt fully aware of the allegations until the story broke. What did fully aware mean . Apparently, he knew of the Domestic Abuse allegations, but until he saw a picture, he