here. here in williamsburg they're situated at the center of the town. the courthouse is right across the street near all of the markets, near all of the shops that up and down the street. this is short of the beating heart of williamsburgs. all of the political activity, the social activity, they're really living the center of it in this fantastic 18th century house that they were living in as john tyler is resurrecting his political career. they have they moved here when le tisha was running the household. she was running their various plantations. right here she suffered a stroke in 1839. that partly paralyzed her. although she was still able to retain control of the family account, of all the family business while john tyler was getting back involved in politics. it's right here in this space that john tyler learned that he was elected vice president to william henry harrison. it's also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became 10th president of the united states. it was here that le tisha tyler learned that she became the first lady of the united stat

we hear from the williamsburg in brooklyn? or port jefferson out in long the endor anywhere on of long island. maybe you hear it -- you live in southampton or east hampton. anywhere along the atlantic ocean. we ask your support. the riverlive along in the new york area, the hudson river, the great south bay, the connecticut river. we urge you to call in and let us know you're there. if you live and as -- minnesota or missouri or montana, go to the phone. maryland is in the house. arizona? wyoming, the dakotas, we ask you to call. carolinas, we ask for your support. can we get a few from georgia? portland oregon is in the house. a call from richmond, mississippi. and jonah's called in from st. louis, missouri. and how about moab, which i just visited. the amazing read city. we urge you to call. william kolding from forde city. dennis from philadelphia. can we hear from pittsburgh, which we also just visited? wayne called in from bremerton, washington. pedro,alling from san california. california is so at of everyone else, but you can't come back -- you can come back by making a cal

anybody that doesn't know he invented trucker hat, williamsburg, sitting around in tight undies. >> tight undies? i didn't know it was undies. i prefer looser underwear. >> i have seen you in your white tight undes and doing horrible things. didn't you essentially take blue collar and made it hip? >> i ran a youth culture brand and may have influenced youth culture. it is the kids today. of course you hate hipsters. they are 18 to 30-year-olds. they have a passionate interest in the pop culture. i don't know why they have such a bad wrap. i was way more of a consumer. they get their music free and their clothes secondhand and their bikes have no parts. they buy it because it is cheap. why do you hate them so much? you shouldn't even know who they are. >> what do you think, buck? they take something cheap and drive up the price. that's why they should be imprisoned. >> this is what they did williamsburg. their parents are pulling the freight for them. >> that's a myth. >> i spent some time out there, buddy. >> i invented them, all right. >> that may be true, but i want to ask you

lady letitia tyler raised their family and manage their plantation from williamsburg. tyler resigned from the united states senate. him and his wife and their family moved here to williamsburg to establish his law practice. officetructed his law and his laundry. the house but they lived in is no longer here. it is perfectly situated at the .enter of the town to the is right across the street. this is the beating heart of williamsburg even in the 1830's. all the social activity, they are really living at the center of it in this fantastic 18th- century house. after they moved here, when letitia is running the going to behe is operating out of a house. she is running their various plantations all over the place. 1839.ffered a stroke and she is still able to retain control of the family at counts, of all the family business while john tyler was getting back involved. he went to was elected as vice president. it is here in the spring of 1841 when he was informed that he became 10 president of the united states. letitia tyler learned that she became the first lady of the united s

the 17th sentry discovered in colonialwomen williamsburg. the announcement happened at the national museum of nation history. the remains date back to the deadly winter of 1609 when more than 200 columnists died. more on the story coming up on news4 this afternoon. >>> today people across the country are expected to rally for immigration reform. demonstrations on this may day have become an annual event. this year's rallies come two weeks after a bipartisan group of senators introduced than an immigration path towards citizen had. crowds are expected to gather in our area this evening in herndon near rachel carson middle school. >>> president obama's turning to capitol hill for his pick to oversee fannie mae and freddie m mac. he will nominate melvin watt. he would replace edward d'marco at the fhfa. president bush appointed him. >>> the federal reserve's open market committee is meeting today and will decide in the next two days whether to raise interest rates. most economists expect the fed to keep its main rate where it is and until the unemployment rate drops a little lower. >>>

takes us inside a brooklyn hotel steeped in old-school cool. >> reporter: williamsburg is one of brooklyn's oldest industrial areas. and now home to one of its coolest hotels. the wyatt. >> it started about six years ago. it had to do with beer and the back of a napkin and the idea that brooklyn didn't have a hotel that really represented brooklyn. >> reporter: peter lawrence took on the project of converting a 1901 factory into a modern-day hotspot that preserves the building's past life. >> we left everything we could. all the columns, all the beams inside the rooms you have the existing feeling that's been there for 100 years and the timber was probably 100 years old when they put it in. >> reporter: the 72 guest rooms also incorporate the original materials. while giving visitors a taste of new brooklyn. >> like all the rooms in the hotel, we tried to incorporate some of the great talent that's in our neighborhood and in our community. so the wallpaper's done by a graphic designer named dan who's in our neighborhood. we have a really well-stocked mini bar filled with all sort

were at the camp david like thing, that was in, williamsburg, where we had a group of all the parties including muslim brotherhood and all the rest, that they, we were all in tahrir square, everyone, right? different ideologies. we didn't have the issues. what i'm worried about the older are feeding within the younger generation their idealogically, what you call it, like, you know, roughness on and stubbornness and trying to disperse us. so i think, you know, these are the extreme issues and i sorry taking so much time. >> no. i think that is very interesting. you're fighting, you're fighting tradition and the ideology and i assume that ideology goes beyond political islam? >> yes. >> to being sort of a deference to authority and hierarchy because i've heard a lot of people in different countries that are going through uprisings and revolutions say, that the youth are very worried about people coming in and attempting to recreate centralized authorities, no matter where they come from, no matter if they're coming from the islamist wing or liberal wing. so, nur, maybe you can