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:

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

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 beige then the daniel 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 had been professional british officers. and congress was in to go there. congress wanted a native born american to be the commander. and you look at who is around. i mean, people like john sullivan, who had been a lawyer in new hampshire and whatever. i just don't see anyone who would have fit the bill. and i think you have to look at the total picture of washington. he is a pretty good administrator of the army. the officer corps was blindly loyal, by and large, the washington. he worked extraordinarily well with state governors and with congress. so he i think made up for some of

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

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

tonight on "washington week." the first black president steps into his first racial controversy. >> the cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. gwen: then attempts to step away. >> there was an overreaction in pulling the professor out of his home to the station. i also continue to believe, based on what i heard, that professor gates probably overreacted as well. gwen: the health care push is being threatened. s rose garden, news conferences and rallies. >> the nation cannot afford a future where our government spends more on medicare and medicaid than we spend on anything else. this is the price of doing nothing about health care. gwen: some remain unmoved. >> this administration, this president has no one else to blame. they have no strong man, they have no press conferences left. gwen: on the hill, fed chairman ben bernanke pushes the reset button. >> we have a much better situation today than we would have if we'd seen a collapse of t

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

have moved to washington. we kind of like that as a washington newspaper that depends on people for advertising trying to influence the washington debate. >> charlie: who are you trying to reach? >> we're trying to reach washington influentials and shape policy and think we do a good job. >> charlie: if you can convince a bunch of add ver tide adverti online to read you are the people that make the decisions it. >> and we have if not the most one of the most influential people reading us and to our advertisers -- >> charlie: number of times of day? >> reacting to our stories and understand we're up in the morning and trying to own the morning and driving a conversation of what people are covering on cable and at other newspapers and people want to be -- it's not easy to reach those people. they're busy and we offer them the most effective and efficient way to reach the audience and it works for us. >> charlie: everybody talks about the content and what's going to happen to content and newspapers and what do yo

, 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

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

talk about your baby here in washington. you have the legg mason tennis classic on saturday and what a round of players you have lined up. how did you get all of these famous faces. >> as you mentioned it is my babies. we have been doing it 41 years. and this year we have an extraordinary field. sincerely maybe the best ever in the history of the tournament and the reason for that is simple. we raised our prize money by $600,000 and we had to commit to that two years ago we never knew about the economy and all of the problems when we agreed to do so. and in turn, the app agreed we would be the only tournament in the world of tennis anywhere. so if you are a good tennis player you either play washington or you rest. it is an exclusive ity thing we negotiated in turn for raising our prize money and becoming one of the top 20 tournaments in the world and it really has paid dividends because we have 16 of the top 20 players in the tennis. five of the quarterfinalists in wimbledon. we have an enormously talented field. led by and

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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

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

the washington redskins are trekking toward the start of the season. what you need to know before you head out to watch them practice. >>> good morning, quoel to "news 4 today." i'm joe krebs. >>> and i'm barbara harrison. thursday, july 30th, 2009. and let's start off with a look outside. you can't tell right now, but there are clouds out there. and it is hot and humid. >> there are a few clouds, but i can actually see a couple of stars an planets in my drive in. so there are some clear spots around the area. also a little bit ofatchyogural, t n in the ridge andnahe r sndna sgs ey annapos,li tf fo,chchg. o o fog. naanpolis, 74. german town ee.grrkmapo70 hagarstown. there's a checkf o live dopplera tnd a ease. lor reaaj maj threat for afa oss tre ay. todatoday. highs will be up into the low 90in many spots, a few plas evght engh reach the mid-90s. upper 80s in the high spots west of town, west otheean blu ridge. there's always that chance that never say neff chance of mother nature that we could have one or two lonely little showers today, but nothing

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," 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

, washington. it is saturday, july 11. i'm pamelarown. so great to have you along. we'll get to the morning's top stories in just a sec, but first, a quick check of the forecast. our meteorologist, adam caskey, is live in the weather center. we've been on such a roll lately. is it going to stick around for today? >> you'll feel added humidity, but temperatures will still be just a few degrees below average. the weekend forecast is looking better than we had previously anticipated, mainly for owmorr lmo owrrooks like a pretty d.aygo right now, t fre a'sew l ht a owshs trtowofh hero mofet nggh hewa a shndgtondeonre frick cynt re border there. ngu n see it slowly pus wea wegecloser look s aeri zon o first in the fitofy reckdeofri, wlitlo shi plousng eastward, us f ks looike they will die of mearlngthniweoriss a. so la idtesoho swers s mainly northf jeff aso seo'rerwide, wee a wlinghit veou a fre bs ak cinhe tlouds early to arsthet our day. temperaturewise, we hee tin 60's right now. pa per 6k, p5. st,

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

rose: woodward and grah on washington. next. captioning sponsored by rose communication from our studi in new york city, this is charlie rose >> rose: bob woodward joins tonight from wasngton. he's an asciatedtor for the "washington post," he's considered one of the pre-eminent invtigative journalists of our time and certainly the most fous. his investation into t wateate coverup with fellow "washington post" repoer carl bernstein earn him fame and the paper pulitzer prize. he's since gone on to wte merous books aboutashington, including onhe presincy, the preme court and the milary. he recently accompaniedational securitydvisor jim jones to afghanistan and wrotabout the trip in the "st". i am pleased to have him back on this broadcast. welcome. thank you. >> i want to take the temperature of washington today as you see it. wh are pros saying about the presidt so far? >> they don know and there's a lot politics and a lot of rhetoricets thrown arod on bo sides. but thinkeople are ki of... if you're looking for at's going on or wh

instead of taxing carbon dioxide, washington went the cap-and-trade route. that's great for wall street, which will make billions trading carbon rights; and great for lobbyists and lawyers, who'll write the rules. it wont be great for anyone else. i certainly don't want to pay higher taxes. but look-- we'd all be better off paying taxes directly than paying for mileage standards and carbon trading indirectly. let's hope that our supposed leaders wise up and try to do these things the right way, not the washington way. i'm allan sloan. >> susie: and finally tonight, it was paws-up at republic airport in farmingdale, new york, today as pet airways made its inaugural flight. it's the first all-pet airline. a new york couple came up with the idea after their jack russell terrier made his first and last trip in a traditional airliner's cargo hold. at pet airways, dogs and cats fly in the main cabin of a freight plane fitted with carriers in place of seats. the one-way flights cost $250. pet airways flies animals between new york, washington, chicago, denver and l

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

one of them is george washington. i honestly think -- i want this to be a full narrative of the founding moment, you know, moment, 30 years of the moment, but it is a historic moment. i want this to be the full narrative of that. and honestly, if you're doing a personal treatment of the full narrative, you've got to include washington. it just doesn't work otherwise. people have suggested, well, you can get by with henry knox, he was there at most of the things, and he would be a great addition too, but washington is critical, certainly in hall the military years, and then as an iconic force later on as well. he's also fortunately critical in the very opening of it, because it was george washington who literally starts the french and indian war when he attacks a french scouting party in 1754, and that's his -- it's his decision to do that. he's doing a preemptive strike on this french party and then they strike back, and then the british support him in the militiamen and that leads to the french and indian war and tha

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bbc news in washington. >>> 1 detail from history is often overlooked. neil armstrong may have been the first man to set foot on the moon, but the first space walk was carried out by the russian cosmonaut. our moscow correspondent went along to meet him. >> while the rest of the world was glued to television watching neil armstrong take his first steps on the mend, in moscow, there was a news blackout. the men in the kremlin decided that the citizens of the soviet union would not get to see the american triumph. there were a few select comrades who did get to see it. one of them was the soviet union's chief cosmonaut and the man who had been training for three years to beat neil armstrong to the moon. >> i swear to god i had my fingers crossed for them. i really wanted them to succeed. it was such a huge event for mankind. it was not about america being the soviet union. >> their names that people remember around the world. one is yours in the second is neil armstrong. -- maybe it should be your name that people remember. >> i know very well neil armstro

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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

"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

we have the familiar picture of the baron, initially in pressing washington with his almost scathing reviews of the condition of the troops, the sanitary conditions in the camp, the arrangements of the fortifications, enough so that washington was happy to turn over to him the training of the troops and of course that's where baron enters into the revolutionary legend as the man who trained the troops, the man who initially drove the company and then passed the members of the model company on to train the rest of the army. but valley forge also i think reveals some attributes to the personality that oftentimes are overlooked. again, keeping in mind that this was not something that he wanted. he didn't want to train troops and he explained this later on. something was put in his lap that he did because nobody else was doing it and certainly he knew a very well but this wasn't what he intended on doing with his military career in the united states. one thing that is clear considering the accolades that has been heaped upon him for what he accomplished at valley forge and was justifiabl

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

five states and washington, d.c. forbid hand-held phones, but the government knew years ago that creates a false sense of security, and doesn't reduce the risk. >> makes more sense to enact a law that covers any kind of cell phone. the difficulty with that is enforcement. >> reporter: it's unclear why the agency didn't act, whether it was worried about congress, or the cell phone industry, or had other safety priorities. but in the years since, cell phone use in cars has doubled. lisa stark, abc news, washington. >>> and coming up, what hard times for dairy farmers could mean when you go to the supermarket. d arthritis, it seems like my life is split in two. there's the life i live. and the life i want to live. fortunately, there's enbrel. enbrel can help relieve pain, stiffness, fatigue, and stop joint damage. because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal, events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma and nervous system... and blood disord

that we can all, they are all in washington. they all work here and they all live theater while we think it is a remote possibility, it is still a possibility that is something truly catastrophic happened here in washington, and as a precaution against that we advocate that there are, should be several offices created for people to sit outside of washington. those offices would be filled by the president of the united states with confirmation by the senate and they might be held by people who were former secretaries of state, former senators, former homeland security advisers. we have people who although you live in washington so that wouldn't work, but the idea is to have a backstop behind the key people in the line of succession is the worst were to happen and we were to have to turn to people outside of washington. the second again has been referred to by fran townsend, and that is a very difficult question and i know akhil amar will refer to does much more directly, but we think it is not wise to have congressional leaders i

-- >> "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

low humidity now at 68 in washington. montgomery, fairfax and prince george's counties in the mid-60s. take a look at radar, no atitn around the region. off to a delightful start. in the low 70s right near the chesapea bay. farther to the west and north, loudoun, frederick, howard county as well as falling and prince william, it is in the 50s at this hour. around the neighborhood network, montgomery village is at a cool 61 with a dry, comfortable dew point of 48 and a calm wind there. on the eastern shore, in the mid-60s. out in the mountains, the low to mid-50s this morning. we are off to a clear start after the showers moved across the bay in the eastern shor they are now dying off and heading to the east. we'll look at the nation. are you traveling today? could be storms with flight delays in florida and along the gulf coast as well as the upper midwest. unfortunately, for chicago, there could be flight delays there later on. also, rain for the northern rockies and northern new england. maybe delays near boston and por

no rain for now around the washington area. low pressure is tracking its way up through southeastern pennsylvania. that's where the greatest risk for severe weather will be today. we have our own risk for later this afternoon. there is the severe risk going from baltimore and wasngton all the way to north carolina. the next rain system after this one is starting to show signs of development across the state of texas. it will follow tt weather front and bring us the next chance of rain sunday afternoon and sunday evening. just sort of reminding, they have a chance for rain tonight, and saturday will be a day to get outside and enjoy the weather. heree go, thunderstorms, we will have severe weather today, and the best likelihood is between 3:00 and 4:00 this afternoon, and 10:00 this evening. and most of the rain will be gone when you wake up on saturday morning. and maybe a few lingering sprinkles. and then most of us will enjoy a dry saturday afternoon. and rain and thunderstorms likely. some of them could reach severe limits.

"good morning washington" continues lights now. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. happy friday, everybody. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> let's start with adam caskey with what we can expect today and into the weekend. >> a little bit of cloud cover this morning. that will give way to sunshine. a few patchy clouds expected. fairly low humidity levels. gaithersburg, up 60. burke, 60. stafford, 63. we will top out in the low

>>> good morning, washington. thank you so much for joining us. i'm alison starling. >> and i'm doug mckelway. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. the watchword of the day is any variation of humidity you want. >> we're testing your vocabulary. >> do you have any favorites? >> dank. >> ke lisd ood th wort. looked . it. wet -- it s wets. ets. lf yy ybe could do some gg.oin a sticking day. a few clouds. 69 degrees. most of us hovering around 70 degrees. it will be around 90 degrees today. there is a little bit of a chance for a thunderstorm. saturday looks like it could be a pretty good day. any weekend plans? >> why not? i think i will go out on the day on the boat. a lot of jellyfish be go swimming. we could go into the camera's right now and check out the pace of traffic. this is virginia with volume growing on edsall road open up to the pentagon. 270 out of frederick to get into montgomery county, starting to flow. good downstream in germantown. now to alison and doug. >> thank you. >>> the smell

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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

washington. booker t. washington -- harrison considered washington to have a philosophy of subservience. harrison kept scrapbooks, which are available as one can see, and one was entitled the subservience. and he wrote several articles and 1911 and 1912 leading out his criticism, politically, economically, as booker t. washington's philosophy but what happened first even before that was 1910 booker t. washington went to europe. he went to london and denmark. he was wined and dined by royalty and basically issued press conferences and press releases saying everything was fine for african-americans back home. this was when plunging segregation and disfranchise that marred the land. a w ev to boys got together a group of 40 people who issued letters of protest and harrison, hubert harrison wrote letters to the new york sun that openly criticized booker t. washington. booker t. washington had a powerful political pressure and patronage machine referred to as the tuskegee machine. he took steps to have hubert h

they would all say washington. a bunch might say franklin although franklin had very little power but he was a cultural icon and had a lot of influence that way. he could come or go but there was the one other that they say has to be in the narrative, robert morris, the financier. everybody here about robert morris? okay, maybe some people to come it is an educated crowd but no more than one in 100 americans know. he was a merchant in philadelphia. he profited greatly during the french and indian war by private tiering in supplying the army and when the revolution came along he continued private tiering in supplying the army in the simultaneously started as a congressman and served on one committee and another and another until he was on all of the secret committees. at one point ben franklin said congress was wondering keying, you have got all of these committees. doesn't anybody keep track? and ben franklin says, not to worry, not to worry. robert morris is on all of the committees and he has it under control. su

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. healthy hair is soft, silky. and you

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