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The anniversary of one of the worst blizzards in recorded history happened on January 12th, 1888. There were many heroes afoot that day, school teachers in the one-room schoolhouses on the open Dakota prairie who protected the children as if they were their own. Strangers helping others to safety and shelter wherever they could find it.
This happened 133 years ago this week.
David Laskin's "The Children's Blizzard" (2004), painstakingly researched the stories of the families, children of witnesses, teachers, and journals, to bring this incredible and tragic story together.
The storm began forming in the first week of January 1888 in the Canadian interior. By Sunday, January 8th, it was above the Montana - North Dakota border. The next day, in Helena, Montana, the temperature dropped by a staggering 50 degrees over four hours. The sudden, bitter cold caught many people unprepared, and more than 230 lost their lives from exposure to extreme temperatures. Then, on January 11th and 12th, it moved into Dakota Territory and Nebraska.

driving drunk. and dealing with kim jong-un, dennis rodman said during his recent visit they also talked about writing a book together. and unveiling a lost long painting a landscape from the sunflower period. it is believed he painted it in 1888, two years before his suicide. it sat in an attic for years. >> thank you, we'll be right back. vo: two years of grad school.

killing vincent kanzani while driving drunk. and dealing with kim jong-un, dennis rodman said during his recent visit they also talked about writing a book together. and unveiling a lost long painting a landscape from the sunflower period. it is believed he painted it in 1888, two years before his suicide. it sat in an attic for years. >> thank you, we'll be right back. hey linda! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support regularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'.

it is believed he painted it in 1888, two years before his suicide. it sat a an attic for decades after it was ruled a mistake. >> thank you. we will be right back.

closer, he's just threatening all of us. >> step closer to what? >> he's going to shoot us. >> wow. police say as of now, george zimmerman is not being charged in this latest incident. it happened in lake mary, florida, not far from where george zimmerman was acquitted back in july in the death of trayvon martin. a previously unknown painting by vincent van gogh has been discovered and authenticated. the van gogh museum says the landscape was believed completed in 1888, two years before the artist's suicide. where has it been all these years? the museum says it will reveal that next month. coming up here in our special report, crisis in syria, my interview with the president of the united states. i just finished speaking to him. you are going to see the interview in its entirety at the top of the hour. plus, just how realistic is this latest possible diplomatic alternative in syria?

welcome back. let's go around the world now, starting in london where the article world is buzzing about the discovery of a long lost painting by vincent van gogh. matthew chance is following that. >> reporter: the lost masterpiece, hidden from the world for years has finally been unveiled. sunset is a large landscape which was painted in 1888. it's the first full sized canvas discovered in 85 years. the museum describes it as a once in a lifetime experience. the painting was originally believed to be a forgery. it sat for years in the attic of a norwegian art collector but thanks to new research, including a letter from van gogh himself, experts were able to authenticate it. kate? >> amazing.

george h.w. bush hated broccoli. ronald reagan loved his jelly beans. jimmy carter was a peanut farmer. >> we try to keep them on the straight and narrow in terms of a healthy diet, but he is the president and he chooses to eat what he chooses to eat. >> so as president obama gets deeper into his second term with sagging approval ratings, maybe he should consider the clinton vegan path. it may not help with actual human voters, but other constituencies, they'll love it. >> you have my blessing. >> john berman, cnn, new york. >> that is one high-powered diet. remember, you can follow us and what's going on in "the situation room" on twitter. just tweet me and tweet the show @cnnsitroom. we'd love to wish you a very happy thanksgiving and to all of our jewish viewers, a happy hanukkah. it's the first time the two holidays have overlapped since 1888. you're watching now down at the white house as the white house menorah was lit earlier tonight. it's the largest in the world. and with that picture, with that

metamucil. 3 amazing benefits in 1 super fiber. so this is something that hasn't happened in about a century. hanukkah on the same day as thanksgiving. thanksgiving on hanukkah. two great holidays that go great together for the first time since 1888 or 1918, depending on whether you're counting from sundown or not. i would like to say something you may have to wait a very, very long time to hear again. happy thanksgivukkah. >> we're going to make hundreds if not thousands -- >> the rabbi is getting ready for the big day. his congregation is celebrating in style, deep frying turkeys and mashing together a holy jewish holiday with a wholly american one. >> hanukkah's come out quote unquote, early this year. really, hanukkah comes out on the same day in the hebrew calendar every year.

people, including the crew of the andrea gail fishing boat inspiring a book and a movie "the perfect storm." and some of the heaviest snow on record fell during the great u.s. blizzard of yes, 1888. paralyzing new york city. hopefully it won't be the same this year for new york. we'll have more on the storm coming up this hour. also next, john kerry back in the middle east coming up the hurdles he faces on his mission for peace.

you see wet, sticky snow out there that brought down some of the power lines causing issues in that region. want to talk about what's happening across portions of san francisco. want to show you this picture on the ground because over the past 24 hours the officials from noaa releasing this photograph, a vessel which sunk in the san francisco bay in 1888. they found it half a mile away from the golden gate bridge. that's the perspective right there. you go down beneath the surface. high resolution sonar imagery to show you what it's like some 216 feet beneath the surface. that's a spectral image coming out of the area showing the hull of the vessel sticking some 16 feet out of the mud. this is entirely covered in the mud. the reason they're saying they're releasing this now. they found it a couple of months ago. 216 years later one of the busier waterways and they're discovering it. >> if that's an indication of

describing mayor brian barnett. he joins me now. mr. mayor, welcome. nice to see you. >> thank you, brooke. >> i know you wrote this open letter to madonna. i read it. there was a part of it i really think it's more effective hearing it come out of your mouth than mine. do you mind? >> sure. penned this open letter over the weekend and part reads madonna, you've achieved unbelievable success, and while we appreciate your talent and achievement. we are and have been home to quite a few amazing people known for more innovative thinking than provincial even a top selling singer/songwriter. despite your distaste for us we have enshrined you in our community wall of fame at the van heusen museum. your portrait sits alongside one of the first women to graduate from the university of michigan in 1888 and one of the world's leading surgeons for nearly 60 years. a female trailblazer in the field of medicine at the university your daughter now attends. >> we'll get to that community

rape and incest will be taught and practiced. this is how our founding fathers waged i elections. in 1888, they said john quincy adams once provided a prostitute. they called adams the pimp of the coalition, team quincy went avenue andrew jackson as a cannibal after his wife as a bigamist. after the election, they blamed john you'inscy adams for her death. so this election season when you see whomever engaged in political attack, remember all this mud, all this slime, it's american as apple pie. >> thanks, for spending your sunday morning with us. i hope you have a happy fourth of july weekend. you can catch me every sunday at noon and on go to cnn.com/sotu.

>> who put a handprint on the declaration of independence? [ echoing ] ♪ >> the declaration of independence is one of the nation's most beloved documents. at some point in history someone put their handprint on it and never fessed up. >> we started at the conservation lab at the u.s. national archives. i have no idea what i'm doing. >> during the revolutionary war period it traveled with congress as they moved from town to town along the east coast. >> we're talking with the curator and conservator to try to help us find clues. do we know how it got there? >> in 1888 the declaration was in philadelphia being reframed in a frame shop.

unlock this mystery. do we know how it got there? >> in 1888 the declaration was in philadelphia in a frame shop being reframed. the story goes the person involved in doing the reframing had printer's ink on their hand which would have been likely. we don't know for sure. >> you are one of the few living people that has handled the declaration. >> that is correct. yes. >> was it you? >> it was not me. i would feel very sad fitif it were me. >> i saw a documentary called national treasure about when this was stone. do you think nicolas cage might have done it? >> he has supernatural powers but i don't think they extend that far. >> so that document is alive. >> yes. >> i knew it. off we went to the old patent office now the national portrait gallery. maybe we could find clues

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