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Reporter, i like to read a good story. Not good in the sense of uplifting necessarily for cheerful or bright, but what makes a good story. It is something that is really unusual. So we write about mostly little personality stories about Little People caught up in the war for whatever history it is. Or even little sidebars about the famous people. Actually, an awardwinning newspaper man here in 10 and i was doing washington writing about alabamans on the magazine. And then we both move jobs at the same time and met. The really a good story from his newspaper days. I love to write. Between the t...

A live look at the bay bridge. In a slight chance for showers will continue to the 8 00 hour. Reporter most drive conditions of full look at the forecast at 715. Reporter finally some better news for the commute to San Francisco where the seller has been cancelled and all lanes are open on lower deck of the bay bridge. A big rate invved in an accident spilled some of its fuel that would block remains since early this morning but now all lanes are open and if you is still clean up and be down the ramps have been opened as well. We have big backups on the next freeway reporter a series of accide...

The president ial box, watching the popular comedy our american cousin. He died the next morning. We sat down with playwright james still and actor mary bacon to talk about the production of the widow lincoln. This is about 30 minutes. Were at ford theater with james still and actor mary bacon about the play the widow lincoln. Before we get started about the particulars of the play i wanted to ask both of you, what it is like and i want to start with you, mary because i think this is a new experience for you. James still has been here before, but what its like to produce a lincoln centered pla...

Morning across the street and we know that the country went into mourning. But in that earlier play in my research in that time i had really become attached. And that president lincoln himself would not really be a character. Although, of course, he looms large in the play. Playwright do it, tell us what the play is all about. So people understand what were talking about. What is the play about . The play is about the period of time that mary lincoln spent in the white house right after he was shot. Because she holed herself up in a room that she had not spent barely any time in for close to s...

I am very aware of it. Im very aware of it. The first time i stepped into the theater i was like whoa. Why is there a picture of president washington up there . I dont know a lot of the specific history of the theater. I dont know just since my you know research to do the role. But also, i have to say for me, i have thought a lot about how we turn a place into a shrine because we know what happened there. There are a lot of places where we dont know what happened there, so it is a mixed thing. James has a line in the play, and a lot of lines from his play come to me. Where he says, you know, g...