and washington refused to give up. washington never, ever would give up. again, one of his salian strength. he had never forgotten what the war was about. he had splendid health. all through this. very interesting. everybody else was getting sick, not george washington. and his courage and his good health and his unwillingness to cave, as we say, was powerful in its effect on the army. and on many people in congress. congress had picked george washington to command the army because they knew him as a man, not as a soldier. he had nothing to do with the military for 15 years. they knew him as a fellow member of congress, a legislature in the continental congress in philadelphia. the decision to put washington in command was one of the greatest decision ever made by any congress in history. he was a political general, a very political general which should not be taken in any way as a derogatory comment. we have been lucky in our political generals, with george washington, and george marshall, eisenhower, colin powell. george washington understood, because he

, who were very close to washington or who saw washington up close. but, having said all of that, i can't think of anybody else that i would have rather had as commander. i think, toward, the nathaniel green of 1780 might have been able to have done a job as well as washington did or perhaps even better, but greene was not prepared for that kind of position in 1775 and people like charles lee or horatio gates, they were just out of the picture altogether because they have been professional the british officers and congress wasn't going to go there. congress wanted a native-born american to be the commander. and you look at who is around, people like john sullivan hugh had been a lawyer in new hampshire and, i just don't see anyone who would it fit the bill. i think too, you have to look to the total picture of washington. he is a pretty good minister of the army. the officer corps was blindly loyal by and large to washington. he worked extraordinarily well with state governors and with congress, so that, i think made up for some of his deficiencies fr

i have actually, lived with washington, i think, for about 25 years, i -- i wrote a biography of washington, back, in the 1980s, and i came back to washington, early in the decade, and wrote a comparative study of washington, john adams and thomas jefferson during the revolution and then turned to washington as a politician, and looked at him in the ascent of george washington from that standpoint. and, i think in each of those endeavors, what strikes me about washington, is he's a very complex individual, and he's a very difficult person to get to know. he was very careful in anything that he wrote. and unfortunately, his widow, martha washington, destroyed all of their letters. so we can't really see a private side to washington. and, i think that is what fascinates me more than anything about washington, is to keep digging and digging to try to learn what i can about washington. >> host: to our viewers, what makes in-depth work, are your calls, and, we will be going to calls in about 10 minutes, for john ferling and we welcome your questions, we especially would like to hear from readers

. , washington dc. we will be live the next three hours from the reynolds museum and education center and our special guest today is the noted war historian and washington biographer john ferling. thank you for being with us. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> host: you're latest book the descent of washington is where we are going to start today to explain the george washington you came to know through your research. >> guest: i actually lived with washington i think for 25 years. i wrote a biography of washington backend 1980's. i came back to washington early in this decade and wrote a comparative study of washington, john adams and thomas jefferson during the revolution and then i turned to washington and as a politician and looked at him in the ascent of george washington and from that standpoint, and i think in each of those endeavors what strikes me about washington is he is a very complex individual and a very difficult personal to get to know. he was very careful and anything garrote, and un

i was never against george washington. i love george washington. and so i think washington fought it in a number of sult ways and overt ways and he did it the way he usually did things with political fighters he let other people do a lot of the h >> host: we have 30 minutes left in our three our conversation with john ferling. to, washington? >> caller: hello. thank you very much. i attended and spoke at a dinner in scotland. it was about with the lord of cannon i received a wooden box from wallace they claim george washington had scented back and he knew he was supposed to guarantee -- and give it to the next in command but they gave it back but they gave little ceramic statues that you did purchase in the united states to speakers or could you know, of these dinners or the connection of the wooden box? >> guest: no. it is news to me. >> host: and a great deal interesting to see how george washington is memorialized in other places than the united states. do have a favorite among the second or third year characters in this history? >> . >> guest:

morning washington," on your side. >>> good morning, washington. 6:00 on this tuesday morning. i am greta kreuz. >> and i am alison starling. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> another gorgus one out there. >> the soun o has been out r fit ouve minutes. crystal clear skies. it would tycat lly look hazy for eathis t pwtdeoin a a oly . vyom cerrtfortle startour o o 8 5in8 ass. damcu cuwarrenton, 59 degrees. here is the forecast. mid 80's this afternoon. a lot of sunshine. if you patchy clouds this afternoon. a great day and comfortable. >> comfortable out of frederick county. we will show you the pace approaching 109. lanes arps move to the beltway. >> thank you. >>> metro general manager will be on capitol hill today. he will be talking about the deadly train collision. >> this comes after the ntsb urged recommendations to protect metro riders. matt brock is live to explain. >> this hearing on the hill today is about metro's ongoing funding problems. the ntsb recommendations are pretty much telling metro to spend some craash to upgrade. >> i am on it daily an

i was never against george washington. i love george washington. and so i think washington fought it in a number of sult ways and overt ways and he did it the way he usually did things with political fighters he let other people do a lot of the fighting for him. >> host: we have 30 minutes left in our three hour conversation with john ferling. our next question comes from air ral watching us in tacoma, washington. hello. >> caller: hello and first of all thank you very much. i attended and spoke at a dinner in scotland. and the dinner was about with the lord buchanan that received a wooden box from wallace. they claimed that george washington had sent it back and he was supposed to give it to his, whoever is going to be next in commands. but he sent it back. and the funny part of this is they gave a -- little ceramic statues that they have purchased in the united states to speakers. do you know about these dinners and the connection of this wooden box? >> no. no. this is news to me. >> and great deal of detail interesting to see how george washingt

, namely "the washington post", and it didn't make any sense to anybody outside of the beltway in washington because every day there was a new episode and the papers didn't relate it to yesterday or discuss what was going to happen tomorrow. and he just pounded the desk and said, let's put together an abc, beginning a middle, end, of what we know. the fact of the the matter is, though he devoted a total of 20, 21 minutes to the story in 2 episodes, there was not one new fact in that whole arrangement we put on the air, not one fact that hadn't been published before -- >> yet that's what television does it makes a story understandable to a mass audience. connie chung, a minute left. you had observations you wanted to make earlier? let me toss the floor back to you. >> when you were asking in the beginning if we were scared of him, you know, when he had the title of managing editor of the "cbs evening news," and he took that very seriously and we took it seriously because he literally looked at our reports and edited them and he would call us and, you know, find -- ask us questions about our r

she was taken aback and is as shocked as i was of the information that was reported in the washington report. that is a disservice to this region and this community, putting unnecessary fear into the hearts of our customers at a time after a great tragedy. i would assure you and i would assure this public that at in time i thought this system was unsafe i would personally issue the order to shut it down. i would not wait for any orders from any other institution. so today, this was an example of someone taking information, not understanding the information, and misreporting it. so again, i just want to assure our customers, this region, the public across this region and across the country, that the metro system is safe. we're safe to operate. and the reports that you have are not true. >> all right. that was john cato the metro general manager. you saw him live denying the main ports of that washington post story which suggested that the circuits that do not allow one train to be anywhere near another train on the metro track were failing on a regular basis. john cato says it's not so

southbound washington -- south out baltimore washington parke white, do something else. is will carry you through lorton. 66, some police activity that is kind of tight on the left shoulder. we will show you traffic on 270 southbound on shady grove road. we're moving at a good pace. now back inside. >> thank you. >>> when we continue, home grown terror. new details about the seven suspects that shocked a north carolina community. >> we will check headlines around the nation. >> you are watching abc 7's "good morning washington," with doug mckelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, weather, and lisa baden, traffic. this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> robert gates is in iraq meeting with leaders. he is there to see how the transition is going. all u.s. troops are scheduled to be out of iraq by the end of the year 2011. federal authorities are searching for an 8 member. seven other men have been arrested. there was a an alleged ringleader who once lived in exandria. michael jackson's toxicology results could come as early as this week. in

morning washington." it is wednesday, july 22. thank you for joining us. i'm alison starling. >> and i'm doug mckelway. we begin with your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. we're hoping for some rain outside. >> when we needed, it does not come. hewwe don't wanthe it, it is ever e one storm over calvert county yesterday. itaterh te and didn'ht go anywhere. heres a storm west of the 95 corridor. we will keep an eye on that. temperature range, upper 60's to low 70's. we will be in the mid to upper mid 80's when all is said and done. i think today it will be a lot like yesterday. tomorrow, a better chance of rain. saturday could be dry, albeit hot and sticky. let's check in on traffic. >> we have a lighter volume than we are used to. no problems in and out of baltimore. we have long term construction beginning tonight at 7:30 tonight. but everything is good this morning on the baltimore- washington parkway. there is a crash in virginia on 66. only one lane is getting by. that is out of tyson's o

washington" continues right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. 6:00. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. bank you for joining us. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> we will start with brian van de graaff. quite a light show we had last night. >> pretty intense storms rolled through the. last night. a psomeasreicked up twoas-us inches of inesch of rain. oohe tow d0' 's. 68 in woodbridge. its is not qu z prasero es as zs out here this morning. less humid. partly cloudy, mid 80's or so with that chances of more showers this afternoon. some could pack a punch. time to check in with lisa baden. >> i have my little map out here. there has been a crash on 210 southbound, south of 28, north of the charles county line. everybody northbound is going to look to get into their. it is going against the rush hour workflow. a series of wrecks between woodstock and strasbourg. i 70, a helicopter crash. as far as the traffic, but you can g

. >> just like we opened the capitol and we opened the washington monument it should have been opened years ago. >> reporter: the statue of liberty opened in 1886, for decades was the first symbol of american freedom, immigrants saw. each year, more than 2 million visitors come here. >> we have taken some stems to make it safer. >> reporter: national park ranger dave den ham gave us a tour of the island and the statue's many features, none brighter than gold leave torch. >> that torch, that beacon, that light is a light that shines not just for america but for the whole world and it is the idea of freedom itself. >> reporter: novice tors have gone to the for f since 1916, since 2004 they have been allowed as high as the statue's size 879 sandals. >> about 150 feet. >> and now people can go how far? >> now you can go up about another 125 feet. >> the stairways have been renovated with more hand rails and ventilation but it is still 354 stems to the top. >> honestly the stairs are narrow, they are steep, and there are a lot of them. >> reporter: visits to the crown are now by reservatio

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speeds are dropping from the washington times building past bladensburg road. okay from many florida avenue to the third street tunnel and to wrap it up here's 270. if you are slow from 109 to 121. a lot of volume here at germantown. over to andrea. >> thank you, angie. this morning metro is refuting the story about safety on the rails. caught in the middle all of you who ride the rails in the morning. this post reports more problems with track circuits like the one suspected in last month's deadly crash. it says problem have been found between medical center, foggy bottom, courthouse, greenbelt, fort totten. armando trull has both sides of the story. >> reporter: this is that report you were eluding to and as you said it is not just here at the greenbelt station but metro center grove nor, courthouse and chain on the and foggy bottom and all of those tracks may have safety problems. >> an investigative story in the "washington post" suggests that metro's train control system that is suppose to prevent crashes is mall functionening across the court. half a doze

china summit begins in washington today. the global recession and foreign policy will dominate the talks. secretary of state hillary clinton and treasury secretary timothy geithner will lead the u.s. delegation. they hope resolve tensions over the huge trade gap with china and the chinese's unease with our soaring budget. climate control will also be on the agenda. >>> this morning sarah palin wakes up as a private citizen she officially resigned yesterday as governor of alaska and gave a slight hint about her future. >> i will be able to fight even harder for you for what is right and for truth. >> reporter: sarah palin said she wanted to spend more time with her family. she is also fighting several ethics investigations. sarah palin did not say whether she plans to run for president in three years. >>> this morning on our website we are asking what do you think the future holds for sarah palin? a run for the white house or fading to obscurity? cast your vote today at wusa9.com. >>> cash for clunkers is supposed to help you

," on your side. >>> good morning, washington. i am doug mckelway. alison has the day off. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. we start with brian van de graaff. i have not seen you in a long time. >> i was working the night shift. it is good to be back. we have a nice little vacation. we have some rain over the next couple of days. temperatures in the 60's and 70's. 78 at lunchtime. there will be hit or miss rain. it will not be a washout week. if you do get ra, you can get a good little amount. not all's will see it. let's talk to lisa baden. >> nice to have you with us. we do not have of any delayed construction to clear out of the waadroy. good on the beltway close to andrews air force base. no constructioon 270 like yesterday. new york avenue is good. kenilworth avenue is good. nothing on the suitland parkway. 95 is clear between richmond and baltimore. there is a light volume of traffic. northbound 95 out of springfield heading towards the pentagon. now to doug mckelway. >> thank you. >>> lawmakers will take

with me is the founder of washington walk and they are in the tenth year. >> so washington walks. i have done a segue to it on the story. but tell me about this. >> washington walks was founded ten years ago and it is -- if you have ever been in london and taking walking tours there we copied what is in london which is walking to the same event same times and days of the week, same time of the year. don't need a reservation and show up outside of a metro station and whoever is there goes on the walking tour which lasts two hours. >> so a bunch of tours to choose from because i can't do everything in two hours. >> you can't do everything in two hours. you have to pick and choose. we have over a dozen you can do but in two hours time you can get an indepth look at a neighborhood like georgetown, captiol hill, the national mall, embassy row, even a food one that we have that we do on saturday afternoon. >> reporter: how did you find out, there's a lot to know. how did you and your staff find out little tips that you share with your customers. >> ten years ago it wasn't on- line. it w

now it is near 70 and washington. prince george's county, we have some patchy fog as well as in parts of central virginia. elsewhere, availabilities are not too bad. just a hazy morning with afternoon highs in the upper 80s and turning humid. the slight chance of an isolated thundershower. and the likelihood is in the afternoon nor for the mid-80s. near 90 on .e we could see highs in the 80s for sunday. will stay humid the next week. >>> good morning to you, everyone. we are doing fairly well so far alontraffic in the northeast. this is new york avenue coming in from maryland. so far so good all the way down to the exit for the third street tunnel. just traffic light issues. the travel lanes are open. we'll check the speeds to see how we are doing southbound on the inner loop from college park to route 50, eighth minutes. 19 minutes from route 50 to the wilson bridge. all the earlier issues have cleared out. good news there. off the wilson bridge to the springfield interchange, just seven minutes so far. not bad. eun,

instd of taxing gasoline, washington gives auto makers mileage standards. the standards e wasteful, complicated, and game-abley big players, and me expensive for the economy an putting a g tax on gasoline would be. instead of ting carbon dioxide,ashington went the cap-and-trade route. that's gre for wall street, which will makbillions trading carbonights; and great for lobbsts and lawyers, who'll write the rules. it wont be greator anyone else. i certainly don't nt to pay higher taxes. but ok-- we'd all be better off paying tes directly than paying for mileage standar and carbon trading indirecy. let's hope that our suppos leaders wisep and try to do these things t right way, not the washington w. i'm allan sloa susie: and finally tonight, it was paws-up arepublic airport in farmingdale, ne york, today pet airways made its inaugural flht. it's the fst all-pet airline. a new yorkouple came up with the id after their jack russell terrier made his fst and last trip in a trational airliner's cgo hold. at pet airways, dogs and cs fly in t main cabin of a freighp

hes says the "washington post" article is not entirely true. the "washington post" article that came out yesterday is reporting that metro is experiencing widespread failures with some of its ath t ata, reporting least ciuicrrets acircuits are not detecting trains. according to the paper, the statioe rare ritrouble ainccordg to this article are greenbelt on the green licoe,n grosvenor on the red line and foggy bottom on the orange and blue line. the article sa metro has not mentioned the failures. when catoe was on the hill this week, there no talk of any other circuit issues. after the post article came out, catoe said there had been issues uncovered from diagnostic tests run twice a day following rush hour but the system has never, he says, lost track of trains. he did admit that some circuits were shut down. >> we either took those circus out or made adjustments to e circuits. we are testing our system much deeper than the system has ever been tested. we are going beyond the normal parameters of how this system is supposed to operate to abso

it was widely known among staff, he himself was informed by washington on numerous occasions. i have absolutely no doubt that he was perfectly aware of this. i think he just didn't care at needed did general quinn who succeeded him. the second question about retaliation is an interesting one. there was a lot of talk on the american side, particularly in congress, about retaliating. they came close to doing about a number of occasions. washington did not like the idea of retaliation. he was always deeply troubled by the implications. he was aware that it was very important for the american army and himself personally to appear conventional, as if -- to appear to conventional and legitimate and he was worried that if americans began retaliating on british prisoners in their hands that it would only look bad in international opinion. to his credit, he always stepped away from the temptation to do that and insisted, unlike his british counterparts, on treating prisoners well. thank you. yes? >> my thanks, it was really pretty neat. i have a question on a certain family, clark fami

joining us now is lisa miskaro, the washington correspondent for the "washington sun." and she's been crunching the numbers opinion lisa, thanks for joining us tonight. >> hi, rampal. thanks for having me. >> have you been able to have direct comment from senator ensign's office whether this huge payment from his mom and dad was a severance payment or a gift? >> well, you know, right when the, when the gift was announced or payment was announced last week, the senator's attorney did put out a statement where he said very clearly that the $96,000 according to the senator's office, according to the senator's attorney, was a gift, and he said it was made as a gift and accepted as a gift. now, in our course of reporting, we've asked, how do you know if something was a gift? how is this determined? mr. hampton zed it's severance and mr. ensign's office or attorney's office says it's a gift. how do we know? the tax experts tell us this is really what an investigation would have to determine. just because something is called a gift now doesn't mean that it necessarily was a gi

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jcpenney. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> good morning, washington. welcome back. is there is the morning. thank you for joining us. i'm alison starling. >> and i'm doug mckelway. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. brian is working on his words on how to say humid. >> they are always very helpful. >> "muggy." >> i on the mapu on the map it iingoto g i be that way. >> it is ns t as yesterday. 69 in arlington. your forecast today, partly cloudy, isolated storm. hot and soggy. that is the word i we use this time. you have any words to share with us? >> good. nice. >> that does not describe the humidity. >> i am not very good at scrabble. anything over four-letter words, i am done. my sister has a 12-letter words. i will wake her up and ask her about words for humidity. ok. beltway it looks good @ connecticut avenue. the humidity -- we love brian van de graaff. northbound out of fredericksburg there has been a wreck before the hov tree in dumfries. the left lane is closed. >> thank you. >>> 5:31 is yourim te .a a in ongta >> that destroy

welcome back to "good morning washington." adam caskey live in springfield -- in silver spring. 77 degrees right now. it will be another war start to our day, unseasonably warm. very muggy outside. the dew point is 71 degrees. it will be uncomfortable in terms of the humidity again. we're watching showers off to our south west. they're moving into west virginia right now. it is causing widespread rain til newnnessee up york. it will push off to the northeast. am expecting more development. there is the chance for showers and thunderstorms for us locally. we are under a slight risk of severe thunderstorms. highs today in the mid 80's with increasing clouds. warm and humid. we're not expecting storms at the moment. >> they are planning on changing the traffic pattern and have been doing construction for a long time between the memorial bridge and 395. traffic pattern with change over the weekend. if you're going to drive on monday morning, expect to find things a little bit different. things are different on 395 northbound. a cr

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i wrote a story for a "washington post" about part of it. and most of what i was doing was for the book. >> rose: what book? >> for the book on obama. and, you know, all of that may stay in the files because the big story... the center of gravity will be elsewhere. general jones was on a fact-finding mission to talk to people and to look at the war in afghanistan, look at what's going on in pakistan. and he delivered a message and the message was "let's deal with the strategy in the afghanistan war that we now with with v with the troop level, it's now been approved, and not be thinking about more troops and, in fact, you will create a whiskey tango fox-trot moment for the president if you come until with more troops." and that was a very clear message that the pentagon and the generals since the story came out made it clear, well, they're going to ask for what they want. jones made it clear that wasn't an absolute restriction but he was carrying a message from the president of the united states that it's already obama's war and he hopes to

the morning, washington. -- good morning, washington. >>> welcome back. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. still a very pleasant subject. >> let's see how long we can live with this wonderful july in washington. >> we have the more days. we do have some added cloud cover today. still, a very nice day. good-looking outside. some mid-level clouds are rolling to the sky. over the district, you can see some of that edit cloud cover.65 degrees at reagan national. dew point at 58. fairly light winds out of the east. it will be cool again today. martinsburg, up 57. mclean, up 56. damascus, 63. dew point are comparable. we see the clouds come and go. let's go back to lisa baden. >> it is good-looking outside because you are outside. good-looking. what do you have cooking? not much on the roadway is what we have cooking. good traffic around the beltway. northeast is also good. we will take a spin on to 95, which is decent between baltimore and richmond. traffic from newington to get up to springfield, beyond to the pentagon. no surprises into nort

"good morning washington" starts right now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. i am greta kreuz. >> and i am alison starling. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. lisa baden is standing by. we will talk with her in the second. steve rudin has the weather. >> we're looking at a nice morning shaping up for us. we will look forward to plenty shun sineunater this teafoon as temperatus te rebound to the mid to upper 80's. 63 in leesburg. 70 suit in d.c. -- 70 degrees in d.c. noontime, 80 degrees. daytime highs in the upper 80's. we will look at the extended outlook coming up. another cool down is on the way. we will also talk about what happened to yesterday. >> i am looking forward to hearing more about your weather. this seems to happen every night, overnight road work. this is going south on the beltway from college park to angers. overnight construction still in the way. in the loop, only one lane to the left getting by. >> thank you. >>> we begin with a

i think bill is right, i think washington post so that washington becomes all the more important took ceo study what it would cost. they put that on the front page of the news story about this, quote, devastating. >> president's poll numbers are starting to drop. one poll in ohio, pretty important state, had him at 49% approval rating. lowest in any state. is it because of health care? is it because of the tax issues generally? >> it's because he is far more popular than his programs. that is why it's important press for him. if he manages to get this through on the strength of his personal charisma, it's going to be a big win for him. >> i think stimulus fatigue and billions fatigue. american people have a huge supported for health care reform. but the next wave is how much it's going to cost and goldman sachs had a big profit. i'm not sure it will work. >> one more break -- when we come back, to the moon. >> an historical moment, an american success and the press was along for the ride. has anything changed in 40 years? that next, on news watch. [ female announcer ] we were flattere

they were hot and happening here in washington this week. they played softball and wowed the young ladies, including the two that live at the white house. >> yes. they are playing a charity softball game at aol. and then they came to the verizon center and had two of the first fans show up. the jonas brothers were part of the obama girls inauguration weekend. they were the surprise at the end of a white house scavenger hunt. >> they had lined the youth concert a couple of days before. >> here -- not -- not unexpectedly, michelle obama took sasha and malia to see the jonas brothers at verizon. >> but of course. judge sonia sotomayor has been in the frontline this week. if she is confirmed and moves to washington, the question about her is whether she will become a visible part of the d.c. social scene since she seems to be more extroverted. >> the answer is, you know, that a slug would be more extroverted than souter was. >> never showed up. she likes to dance. once her ankle gets fixed, i think she will -- i said honestly, in the beginning,

the way i see it, i am not going to washington to be the sixtieth democratic senator, i'm going to washington to be the second senator from the state of minnesota, and that is how i am going to do this job. [applause] i promise to do my best, to work hard, to stand on principle what i believe i must, and yes, to compromise when i believe that that is in the best interest of the people of minnesota. on behalf of frannie and my beautiful kids, let me say thank you to the people of minnesota. think you for your patience, for your thoughts and prayers, and for giving me the opportunity to work for you in washington. i can't wait to get started. [applause] we will take a few questions, thank you. >> when you expect to have -- how difficult is it going to be to come and some much later than everybody else? >> i can't tell you exactly what i will be seated. i think it will be early next week. coming in in midsession will be more difficult than having to start january 6, i'm sure. i have been trying to keep abreast of what has been going on. i will do the best i can. >> norm coleman called and concei

a graphic quote from the barry case on the front page of the washington city paper. not language you would expect to see. as melanie alnwick reports, the paper is already fielding complaints. >> reporter: it's raising eyebrows. >> it's very nasty. >> wow. okay. >> reporter: and ire. >> not really appropriate. >> i'm speechless. >> reporter: the headline in this week's washington city paper featuring in bold print the accusation of a usually unmention shown nal act. >> over the line, offensive, inappropriate. >> reporter: those are some of the complaints editor is responding to since the free paper hit the public street. >> are they allowed to write that? >> reporter: the answer is, yes, they are. the quote, while crude doesn't violate the definition of obscenities. >> everybody has relationship issues. it shouldn't be printed on the front page. >> reporter: the quote is pulled from a recording obtained by the city paper of an argument between councilman barry and his ex-girlfriend. she was referring to an incident in denver whether they attended the democratic nation

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>> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >>> good morning, washington. welcome back. 6:30. i'm alison starling. >> and i'm doug mckelway. time for your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. yesterday i was saying that weather like this in washington, d.c., is like money in the bank. we have to make some more deposits. >> we will seek a return of the heat and humidity by this weekend. then we throw went the chance of storms. when we have in it moisture, we have increased chance for storms. we have a time lapse of the sun rising in mt. airy. 59 degrees right now in mt. airy. a nice start to our day. dew point at 53. 59. upper marlboro, 61. here is our forecast. a mixture of sun and clouds. still looking great outside. highs in the low 80's today. >> i have delays on 95 in virginia that begin out of dale city. we will take you live to the camera at newschopper 7. this is 95 and 395 heading towards nd bark. this is the normal delight to have passed landmark mall. we are sloped leaving the robinson terminal to get up to 66. this is route 1. nothing r

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southbound george washington parkway is open. you are down to one lane at the entire length of south washington street. they started a long-term project on monday that will carry to the first of september. what is good for you now is in this camera and that is the 270 drive. we will have more from newschopper 7 in just a little while. >> thank you. >>> sonia sotomayor returned to capitol hill today. she will face another round of grilling. >> she is counting on her record as a federal judge to silence her critics. courtney robinson is live with more. >> she is repeatedly referred to her 17-year-old record on the bench. she seems to be doing well in the hearings. the back and forth will continue. judge sonia sotomayor will once again faced the tough questions as lawmakers return for round three of confirmation hearings. >> i do not base my judgments on my personal experiences or my feelings, or might biases -- or my biases. >> her background might out when it which she calls fidelity to the law. she addressed her remark that a wis

off to a steamy start in the washington area, typical for july in washington. the the sun is up in our eastern sky. plenty of cloud cover out there to dim it out just a little bit. here is a check of doppler. you can see just a few lonely sprinkles in the west virgin mountains. that's indicative of what's coming our way for later this afternoon. be weather aware as you make your friday afternoon plans. temperatures in the 60s to get us started except alongside the bay. here is the forecast as we go through the weekend. today, 87 for a hichlt but 60% chance of thunderstorms later this afternoon. some of them coupled very well reach severe limits. keep a weather aye to the sky. 92 and dry for saturday. 90 with a chance of a late afternoon and evening thunderstorm on sunday. monday another chance for a passing shower. as we get into the middle part of next week, highs near 90. lows in the low 70s. at least another passing shower thunderstorm chance as we get into the middle of next week. looks like a good weekend, eun and joe. >> thanks very much. >> let's check i

washington. the helicopter took off just a few minutes ago for the medevac. again, we don't know why the patient was transferred. we can tell you washington hospital center does have a burn center. the patient appeared to be alert and conscious when he was medevaced. montgomery county fire and rescue units were called to congressional country club just before 3:00 for a report of a person struck by lightning. fire officials tell us that the first responders arrived and found a 42-year-old man struck by lightning on the golf course. we understand that this man may have been trying to leave the golf course and get inside a shelter in advance of the coming storm. he was taken here to suburban hospital by ambulance and officials will not tell us his condition at this point. there was a response of no comb from the folks at congressional country club. but what we can tell you is that the patient was transferred from suburban hospital to washington hospital center's med star you don't know tonight nort

-- >> "good morning, washington." it is 6:00 on this monday after the fourth of july. >> thanks for joining us on this monday as we start another workweek in washington. let's get to traffic and weather every 10 minutes. >> we start with jim russ -- we will start with

some have called him the ultimate washington insider. the truth is his favorite places near mount rainier. he came to the nation's capital 40 years ago on a whim as a graduate student. he signed up for a cia recording business mostly because it was a free trip. 45 years later dr. robert gates is running the place. the first entry-level person to ever become the agency's director. along the way he has worked with democratic and republican administrations. he has managed to maintain his sanity, his reputation that made a town famous -- in a town made famous by bureaucracy and back fighting. wherhe's done pretty well. its three highest profile positions. cia director. president of texas a&m university. secretary of defense currently. he's helped remake 3 organisation's that were bound y culture. he's done it by listening to people on the frontline. analysts and agents, teachers and students, corporals and colonels. is funded mostly by focusing on the product. he said the national propensity of bureaucracy is not a decision, but to chew the

now 65 in washington. and from takoma park to mitchellville, chantilly, aspen hill, low humidity in place with temperatures in the low to mid-60s. a few clouds in and out as the day progresses. afternoon highs should climb in the low 80s with low humidity. tomorrow, more humid, partly sunny. afternoon highs mid-80s, a small chance of a late afternoon or evening thundershower. a greater chance of maybe some afternoon showers and thundershowers on sunday. still humid. then monday, into next week, looks like we'll be seeing some low humidity moving back in monday and tuesday, highs in the 80s, but getting more humid wednesday into thursday. could get some thundershowers wednesday. jerry, good morning. how's the traffic? >> good morning, everyone, happy friday. head south to fredericksburg, take a live look along i-95 northbound and southbound. there's southbound, there's northbound. about a 50/50 flow of traffic this morning. those folks might be going away, a little vacation. other than that, looking good so

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brian mooar, nbc news, washington. >> we have showers in washington. there's strong cells, as you can see, coming through charles county now with some thunder and lightning. also possibly gusty winds and they will be out over the bay in another 30 minutes. bit more into calvert and charlie county. see you at 11:00. back to you. >> that's our broadcast for now. "nightly news" up next. >>ile weel a y s agaou >> we will see you again at 11:00.