we did have an opportunity to talk with lee roberts, and we asked him why he supports the governor in his campaign to run for re-election. >> i think it's very important to keep governor mcrory in office. north carolina is better off now than they were four years ago. >> reporter: so far, there has this campaign. roy cooper has raised more than $5 million. this is shaping up to be an expensive gubernatorial race. >>> in terms of the presidential primary, we want to take a look at who won county by county. >> donald trump is currently leading most counties including cumberland. on the democratic side, hillary clinton is winning by a landslide with the sxepgs of orange county. -- exception of orange county. this is a scene in clayton as the polls closed. >> the workers were kept busy all day. experienced major issues, but that was not the case everywhere. >> right. michael highland breaking down those issues and what caused some polls to extend hours. >> reporter: for some voters, the issue was simply having to wait today. in two counties, the state board of elections had to extend voti

virginia has one named after robert e. lee. andrew jackson's home, the hermitage come was actually turned into a veterans home. on the east side of the french corridor in new orleans was a home. a homey's home had outside of louisville. it gave veterans a great place to relax, take any fresh air, and live a life, if you will, with medical use. -- ease. thee was some debate if state should actually support them, and what kind of men would be allowed in one of these homes. you had to fill out paperwork. in fact, some of these homes even had a debate about someone -- about some men who asked if their wives could come along and live in the home. these are the questions that in many ways gummed up the assistance that many of these veterans needed in transitioning back to life. land grants become the third area of assistance that they are limited. only two states would take on large plots of land that veterans would be eligible to take. louisiana which provided 160 acres of land to injured veterans. land --fered 1288 gerd acres to in

robert e lee, colonel robert e. lee who was a army officer who went to west point. that was his last deed for the union. when he defected to the south, the confederacy, that did not sit well with his fellow army officers who went to west point with him. and lincoln was also furious should not that lee report to duty for the union. weddedthese characters together and have different intersections. i thought that might be interesting to know that robert e. lee was at the scene of harpers ferry. match in thelast powder keg of the civil war. although it failed, it succeeded in alarming the south and it blows. the two sides, to in a way, john brown succeeded with his revolutionary rage. -- raid. frederickbman and douglass were not revolutionaries in the same way. they were nonviolent revolutionaries. time, the two new each other with mutual friends like william lloyd garrison, the bostonian abolitionist and the philadelphia quaker and women's rights leader lucretia mott's who we discussed last time. once brought a group of 13 runaway slaves to the frederick douglass home

robert e. lee is another prominent name that our visitors take away from the tour. robert e. lee, we have in some of our ledgers that he purchased whitewash for arlington house, and he also purchased lavender as well. lavender was a great remedy for migraines. at the peak of the business, the family was operating out of 11 different buildings here in town. this was retail. they also had a retail on the corner of king in fairfax. -- and fairfax. they loved the history in this space. they almost had it set up as a little museum. i mean, they were really into the history and the fact that it had served the community and so many prominent alexandrians throughout their time. up through the civil war, he was starting to increase the business. it started to include a wholesale line of products. with the civil war, alexandria was occupied. and because the family were quakers, they were pacifists and they were also abolitionists. they were allowed to keep running a business here in town. after the civil war, the economy of alexandria slowly starts to recover. and john leadbeater, with

virginia had one and they named it after robert e. lee. andrew jackson's home, the her mittage was actually turned into a veterans home for a period of time. if you were in new orleans on the east side of the french quarter, on esplanade avenue, there was the big home in new orleans for confederate veterans. kentucky's home was in the pee-wee valley in this beautiful area out of louisville that gave veterans a great place to relax, take in the fresh air and live a life, if you will, with some medical ease, if you will. now, there was some debates particularly about these homes if the states should actually support them and then what kind of men would be allowed in one of these homes. again, you had to fill out the paperwork, talk about that your injury came from the war itself and again, that honorable departure from the war itself. in fact, some of these homes even had a debate about some men who asked that their wife be allowed to come along and live with them at the home. some said is that appropriate, should she actually live with you

they're going to blame not robert e. lee not stonewall jackson but james longstreet. core commander at gettisburg throughout the war. it will be his fault that gettiesburg didn't turn out the way he wanted. it's like the ceo deciding that he's not going to resign bah blames the vice president and throws him under the bus. he was a republican and he actually got a position during the grant administration. he may not had been politically aligned with many individuals who were thinking about the lost cause. this becomes a struggle for historians going forward. lost cause doesn't have a lot of room for injured veterans. distraught widows or orphan children. when you have these obligations spring up, they were put in mission statement. they were all about raising money to take care of that generation that had been destroyed by the war but then they would use all of that money then to go build a monument on a battlefield. to construct gigantic monument or battle to hire authors to write text books after the war. for others, these organizations because they're not representi

lee in the chair in the front. >> robert e lee in the later uniform. >> [inaudible] >> this is ulysses s. grant. what is going on in this picture. what is happening? this is a surrender of the army of the potomac. they are going to set forth a series of events that would end the war a few month later completely. a hugely important moment. a huge, historic moment. and ely parker, who you are a bit familiar with, is in this picture also. can anyone pick out eelie parker? he's standing on the right side. the third person in. right in front of him there is the actual drafting of the surrender agreement on the table. the guy standing over the right shoulder of the men writing. who is parker? you read a bit about him. who was he? >> he was the chief of the indians -- he led the indians in their fight against new york state. mr. genetin-pilawa: he was leading a resistant campaign against removal. he was leading a fight against the armed and land company in new york state -- augden land company in new york state. he helped them secure a title to part of their homeland in new york. a few years

. >> reporter: robert lee called 911 just once in his life. for his daughter, katherine. >> i heard a crunching sound. she said, ooh, like something tasted bad. i knew she had accidently gotten one of my pills. >> reporter: robert takes several heart and blood pressure pills a day. it's not clear which one katherine ate. >> i felt scared and guilty all at the same time. >> reporter: every nine minutes a child is rushed to the reflt for accidental poisoning. a key factor, nearly least one prescription drug. almost 80% use over-the-counter medicines. >> kids have more exposure, particularly in multi-generational families. 48% of the time a child who is treated in an emergency room had gotten into a grandparent's medication. >> reporter: easy-open pill boxes like these are convenient for adults and a major hazard for children. of children brought to the reflt for possible medicine poisoning, safe kids worldwide found most medicine in a pill box, on the floor, in a purse, or right on the counter of the experts take controlling access is key. >> al

i vote for renaming the lee barracks. >> we have robert e. lee road. >> i did not know that. >> brooklyn. >> where is the city council? [laughter] >> let's rename it hiram rebels road. [applause] >> i'm going to end with a quote from the person i quoted at the beginning. when hillary clinton got to speak for herself on this subject, she made a very good statement, and this is what i think we can all end by agreeing on. "too many injustices continue today. attempts to suppress voting rights go back to racist efforts during reconstruction. in fighting for voting rights and equality today, we are continuing a long struggle that still has to be fought and won in our own generation. the fight continues. we thank you for advancing the discussion. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> interested in american history tv? visit our website. you can see our upcoming schedule or watch re

lee's birthday. several confederate monuments have been defaced in north carolina's state capital recently. we're following decision 2016 - this evening. north carolina governor pat mccrory and democratic attorney general roy cooper are expected to face each other in the governor's race this fall - but they have to win their primary races march 15th. ken spaulding - a democrat and republican robert brawley are running tough primary campaigns. spaulding continues to criticize cooper state lawmakers. while brawley is making interstate tolls a big issue for his campaign. still ahead - submarine christening - we'll take you to the event the military is celebrating this saturday. and - forecasting tornadoes - why researchers say they may have found the answer to warning people about twisters several days in we're following a time saver traffic update for you this evening. traffic is moving a lot smoother along interstate 264 in norfolk. just before 9 this morning - a call came into police saying a car cau

but her husband, phillips lee, who was a cousin of robert e. lee, was in the union navy. and because he was in the navy, she wrote to him pretty much every day. >> yeah. >> and the letters are just a treasure trove. >> they're great. yeah. >> they really are. >> well, there's so much in here i encourage people to spend a lot of time with it because it's just great reading. >> well, they were great ladies. fun to learn about. >> good for you. i want to ask about this concept of women in leadership roles performing amazing feats and contributing but perhaps not getting, you know, enough credit for it or claim for it. in the two areas in which you have lived your life, journalism, and politics, i was reminded when john dickerson was named to replace bob schieffer on "face the nation." his mother -- >> nancy. >> -- was one of those pioneering women journalists. it is not that long ago that women did not occupy an equal place. i mean, just the other day -- >> are you kidding? [laughter]. >> right. but, you know, the other week we had a deal where every questioner at the presid

he and -- endorsed robert e. lee to be president of the united states, 1868. the irony is lee would have won he couldn't serve. his citizenship had been taken away and the petition for amnesty was lost and it came to light in the summer of 1965, and it was gerald ford who finally signed the amnesty and lee citizenship posthumously. like to think of it as a purple heart rather than a peace of paper. >> almost became the father of noncitizens running for president of the united states. [laughter] >> i agree our country is in cries and i would like to know what you think the average citizen can do to make a difference. about that. >> the average citizen? >> yes, sir. >> you mean invade -- voting? >> i'm not sure. >> a simple thing. i tell audiences, particularly this year, you don't realize how powerful your vote is you. don't realize how powerful your vote is. you're looked into apathy. in a presidential election, 40% of the people vote. let me put it another way. in a presidential election three out of fife americans don't care. they don't bother to vote. three

virginia had one and they named it after robert e. lee. andrew jackson's home, the her mittage was actually turned into a veterans home for a period of time. if you were in new orleans on the east side of the french quarter, on esplanade avenue, there was the big home in new orleans for confederate veterans. kentucky's home was in the pee-wee valley in this beautiful area out of louisville that gave veterans a great place to relax, take in the fresh air and live a life, if you will, with some medical ease, if you will. now, there was some debates particularly about these homes if the states should actually support them and then what kind of men would be allowed in one of these homes. again, you had to fill out the paperwork, talk about that your injury came from the war itself and again, that honorable departure from the war itself. in fact, some of these homes even had a debate about some men who asked that their wife be allowed to come along and live with them at the home. some said is that appropriate, should she actually live with you

included the nephew of robert e. lee in founder george mason. southerners in robles and warriors. around the age of 25. ant venom longer matters. but the man that they led further merchant sailors sailors with the enticements of gold so there every nation and keller. but also sell the asian and pacific islander those have never set foot on american soil. in day balance discipline with humanity and succeeded. most served loyally and energetically through their vessels. and then to cause a sensation. and as word spread hundreds of sightseers were on the shore. descending from every direction an estimated 10,000 on board in one day. in the heather demanded their immediate departure. to carry on a fierce diplomatic corps in must be evident that all presumptions of fact were against the legal character of the vessel that had no legitimacy and those a responded no evidence of the tyrannical ax and a matter the history the government there were a significant number of influential people. unions and states rights. pro union sentiment and dangers for the umbilical chord of trade and local

lee's birthday. several confederate monuments have been defaced in north carolina's state capital recently. a group of graduate students in savannah, georgia led a silent protest against the removal of a confederate monument. caution tape surrounded the confederate memorial this morning. police say students used chalk to write messages around the memorial - asking the public to value historic preservation before demolition. city officials say no specific monuments are up for demolition. but the students say they want to create a public dialogue about not turning a blind eye to monument removals - no matter the context. s/cornelia dodge/grad student :06 "the big message is opening a dialogue to talk about historic preservation, confederate monuments, and erasing history." s/erin ward/grad student :08 "so we were hoping that this would bring did." were removable and there s/cornelia dodge/grad confederate monuments, and erasing history." attention to it in a police say the markings were removable and t

. >> so why don't we -- we'll come to lee in a second here and the relationship between robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. lee emerges from this period as a much more celebrated and famous and better known, right? famous or infamous, depending upon how you look at his figure. >> better known, yeah. >> but jackson today is not really as widely known, which is why i think it's so interesting that you gravitated there as a subject. why has jackson not been -- why is he not better known? >> i think there were things that overshadowed him. history sort of moved beyond him in some ways. let me give you a really good example of this. you mentioned he dies. so he gets shot by his own men. this is completely accidental and, again, bad staff work that anybody was out there for that to happen. and then he contracts pneumonia and dies. what happens then is absolutely extraordinary. it's the first great outpouring of grief for a fallen leader in american history. >> history, right. >> and i said american history. i didn't say confederate history. >> right. >> the fallen leaders, so to speak,

i lee was 1/2 few of robert e. lee, brother of fit hugh lee, and mason was grandson of founder george mason, and there were other connections there that were just fascinating. one fellow was an anomaly. a middle class brazilian, he actually had been a drug store clerk and got enam norred rom othese from the midwest. but he managed to get an appointment to the naval academy. he didn't report because the war started so he reported to the confederate navy and worked his way up, but being from the midwest, and he didn't quite relate to the the aristocratic milieu of his southern and deep southern come patriots -- compatriots. interesting. questions? >> okay. charlie. what was the fate -- what happened to the colonial marines you mentioned? you can tell i'm interested -- >> they only were able to recruit 300 to 400 of them and did serve with distinction in the 1814 campaign in particular, but cochran allowed them to be transported to the island within -- the british caribbean of their choice or could go to bermuda or ca

lee's birthday. several confederate monuments have been defaced in north carolina's state capital recently. a group of graduate students in savannah, georgia led a silent protest against the removal of a confederate monument. caution tape surrounded the confederate memorial this morning. police say students used chalk to write messages around the memorial - asking the public to value historic preservation before demolition. city officials say no specific monuments are up for demolition. but the students say they want to create a public dialogue about not turning a blind eye to monument removals - no matter the context. s/cornelia dodge/grad student :06 "the big message is opening a dialogue to talk about historic preservation, confederate monuments, and erasing history." s/erin ward/grad student :08 "so we were hoping police say the markings were removable and there was no damage to the monument. students say they have created social media accounts titled "erasing history" to continue to spread their

robert e. lee, ulysses grant had signed the official document a few days earlier. on that day, the confederate soldiers left in the army in northern virginia went on this long process of walking up, turning over the regimental flag. packing their guns. you can imagine that gun was part of your identity for the last few years of the war, now being turned over to the

lee's birthday. people have vandalized several confederate monuments in more than 100 people with sons of confederate veterans gathered in gettysburg to celebrate the flag and its heritage. but, there were also dozens of others who oppose it. the groups got into a heated argument at one point, but things eventually cooled down and the ceremony ended without any problems. the leader of the confederate group says it is okay for people to have different views on the flag. casteel says: "the opposition, they are what they are. they have made a decision to not agree don't think they are bad people, i just think that the symbol they choose to fly is a symbol has been used for white supremacy and for some people when they see that symbol, white supremacy is all they think about." groups had the right to be on the property and express their first amendment rights. a group of college students led a silent protest against the removal of a confederate monument. they put cautiion tape around the memorial in sava

lee's birthday. people have vandalized several confederate monuments in north carolina's state capital recently. more than 100 people with sons of confederate veterans gathered in gettysburg to celebrate the flag and its heritage. but, there were also dozens of others who oppose it. the groups got into a heated argument at one point, but things eventually cooled down and the ceremony ended without any problems. the leader of the confederate group says it is okay for people to have different views on the flag. casteel says: "the opposition, they are what they are. they have made don't think they are bad people, i just think that the symbol they choose to fly is a symbol of white supremacy." hanson says: "some say that it's heritage not hate. that symbol has been used for white gettysburg park says both groups had the right to white supremacy is all they think about." gettysburg park says both groups had the right to be on the property and express their first amendment rights. a group of college studen

tony dokoupil and trymaine lee in ohio, and thomas roberts in florida. let me start with you, tony. good morning, you're at a polling station. what's the scene there like? >> hi, good morning, jose. i'm in struthers, ohio, part of the youngstown metro area. a area hard hit by industrial decline. the unemployment here is double what it is in the state, and the campaigns, trump, clinton, kasich, sanders have made here as saviors for a working class voter. we won't know where the voters end up. but an interesting trend is developing. at this table behind me,ina und ohio law, voters can arrive and make a choice. even if they're registered democrats, they can choose a republican or democratic ballot. here's the fascinating part. in a town where there are no republican elected officials, half of the people have selected republican ballots. they take them to one of these voting booths along the line to make their decision. they are either voting for trump or against trump in a cross-over vote hat is really unprecedented in these parts, according to the election official in charge of it. if

it is robert e lee, june, 1863. you have to be the enemy on their own turf. she wants to avoid that. she wants to get back to her inevitability in the general election. mark: they said they may be downplaying her chances so even if she wins by a little, it will look big. clinton, like her husband, don't like to give up on any state. margins matter. sanders, huge wins over the weekend. they don't want there to be another state where sanders gets a big w. al: i agree. i think they are more confident than they were a week ago. what i hear is very close out there. she cannot get beaten by 10 or 12 points in wisconsin by bernie sanders. mark: if you take the clinton folks at their word, despite limited public polling showing clinton a head, they are saying this will be a sanders stay. the demographics layout well for him. if you look at the history of people who have done well, like jesse jackson, it should be a sanders state. al: today, the clinton campaign was dealt a double whammy on that old e-mail story. federal prosecutors are setting up interviews with memb

lee outside of washington and the one in mississippi house thousands of residents and maintained the school a hospital and a church. but places that challenged the ability of the contraband to survive. others were placed on government farms, lands confiscated from secessionest fleeing. they worked under the supervision often of men who had little intention of facilitating their transition from slavery to freedom and instead were much more interested in continuing their exploitation. those who maintain and these were men from the north. actually. those who maintained -- who remained at home did so less out of any sense of loyalty than from the degree of difficulty fugitives experienced in attempting to reach union lines and from uncertainty regarding how they would be received once they got there. this did not mean however that they wanted to continue ex plowation and abuse from those who claimed ownership by laboring infry kwenltly or not at and a few by going through the countryside. northerners held the fear that violence would erupt with the emancipation of the enslaved. when linc

robert e lee is another prominent name that our leaders take away from the tour. he purchased lavender as well. remedy fors a great migraines. the family was operating 11 town.ent in this is retail and they also had a retail on the corner of king in fairfax. .hey love the history in space the fact that they had served the community and so many prominent alexandrians throughout their time. war, it wascivil starting to increase the business and starting to include a wholesale line of products. with the civil war, alexandria was occupied. they were pacifists and also abolitionists. they were allowed to keep running a business here in town. after the civil war, the economy in alexandria slowly started to recover. -- assistanceence of his son starts a wholesale in 500 different businesses locally in the region. that really helps them expand the product line and become well-known in the area. is room we are standing in where a lot of the raw ingredients were stored moving to the building in 1805. through the 20th century where they close, they are using it more as an of

lee of the "l.a. times." robert, i thought we would get news tonight. you had the break on that story, the scoop that dr. carson -- what's he going to do, tomorrow endorse trump? >> tomorrow, mar-a-lago. >> why did he not bring it up tonight? scooped it already? did he mention it tonight? >> he did mention it tonight. we scooped it, and then he mentioned it. they were trying to have a surprise press conference on saturday -- friday at mar-a-lago and all came together this morning. carson, remember, has been fuming about senator cruz ever since iowa, feels like he was wronged. the campaign mishandled it and trump has been building a rapport with carson behind the scenes, phone call after phone call, that's the trump way and finally met today in mar-a-lago. in palm beach. carson has his own home in west palm beach and quietly met for over an hour and i heard from people very familiar with the situation and carson said i'm with you, let's have an outsider be the nominee. >> wow, moments ago donald trump

this is to accept a robert e. lee surrenders and blacks are meeting here for the organization in richmond. in june, they met in norfolk. and typically, you can see at the early conventions, they were trying to convey a message. so they go all the way down to explain what had been happening in syracuse and in albany. at a church, within weeks, they met in alexandria, virginia. there they endorsed the earlier agenda, issued by the syracuse delegations. and they asked that virginia be restored on the basis of universal coverage. they met some blacks from the old slave trading factory and they asked, if we had done this two months before, we would have been hanged. they moved across the river and the met in washington dc. the list went on. and as early as 1862, the african-american community had been divided. fairly prosperous, mixed race, now black slaves. but then they went all the way down to new orleans and counseled the black communities to put aside differences. you had an amazing convention of well-to-do new or

. >> robert e. lee was through here on three different occasions. pickett. longstreet. >> after the civil war breaks out, hundreds of texas troops are mustered into the confederacy here. but by 1867, chadbourne is reoccupied by u.s. troops, many of whom leave their marks on its walls. garland, every one of these walls, they're covered with etchings. wow. "forsythe, october 1870." amazing. garland, if these walls could talk. imagine. the u.s. cavalry uses the fort until 1873, when its buildings and surrounding lands are abandoned. four years later, garland's great-great grandmother snatches it up. >> they paid $500 gold for a section of land, which at that time was in the upper end of the land prices. >> garland's ancestors used some of the fort buildings for milking sheds, feed and saddle storage, and even houses. >> they overcame a lot of adversities to actually make it a successful ranch. and this has been handed down to us. >> so when do a handful of decaying government buildings become a historic treasure worth preserving? for fort chadbourne, it begins

it knew in honor of con federal flag day and it also flies in january on robert e. lee's birthday. >>> veterans gathered to remember people missing from the war in southeast asia. they're part of the vietnam veterans incorporated group. they have met on the first saturday of every month for the past 28 years. they call out the names of those unaccounted for. they say they started 28 years ago with 65 names and are now down to 39. >>> rail low's mayor will give the state of the city tomorrow. lit take place at the raleigh convention center. it will start at 12:30. the doors open at 11:30. it is free throw and taupe to the public. discusses tomorrow night on cbs north carolina news. >>> still ahead this morning, it is a reunion seven decades in the making. still the to come, we show you how technology reconnected two families. >>> plus, it is not jurassic park, not jurassic world, but dinosaurs are invading raleigh. we'll tell you where you need to head to get this unique experience. >> if you're heading out and about today, you may see sunshine, but you'll have to wa