for this clipping, and the clipping was the obituary of the oldest gates, jane gates, my great-great-grandmother who was a slave. it was dated january 6, 1888. and it said died this day, jane gates, a colored woman. my father showed me a picture of her, and that picture now hangs on the wall of the kitchen in my house back in cambridge. the next day i got a conversation book and interviewed my mother and father about their family trees. i ve been interested in genealogy ever since. what stands out for you in various experiences? i know it was different for everybody. especially when you work with big names, is there something that s striking about it? a couple things. on the genetics side, i wanted to find a jewish man and a muslim man right identical. that was one of my great desires, and when we tested michael nik coles and tested
with the health care system. a trillion dollars in waste she said. does it pay to bargain shop for health care? we ll have part two of the report tomorrow on american morning. stand by. you ll see that. you can follow what s going on here in the situation room. i m on twitter and you can get my tweets. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. up next, campbell brown. hey, there, everybody. a renegade republican senator puts the brakes on a bill to extend unemployment benefits and 100,000 americans are left in the lurch. we re watching it all. is it a principled stand for fiscal discipline or a classic case of washington gridlock. there s no denies that one senator has chaken thousands of americans from coast to coast. take a look. the department of transportation says it furloughed 2,000 workers here in and around the country because congress failed to pass legislation to extend funding for the projects. part of a $10 billion package blocked by one senator, kentucky s