Washington and baltimore area. Stay weather alert today and have our nbc washington app and have it ready to go and we will send push alerts as many more warnings or watches coming out. A Flash Flood Watch at 2 00 p. M. This afternoon until 2 00 tomorrow morning ides all of the metro washington area. Its steamy outside this morning. Te teratures are already inhe low to mid seventh. Fternoon high close to 90 defoees bere thunderstorms get going today. Increase just in time for the evening commute. A lot of possibility to snarl the ride home from work today. Lets try to get through this morning. At least for now, dry. We thank you for that. Unfortunately a closure in place for a while. Due to mondays lstorms, ca road you see at the tv right now is off to left. You can see the cone up in place. That roadway is closed and canal roads blocked between reservoir and foxhall and unfortunately damage from mondays storm and no word when the roadway will reopen. O cinuing our coverage of that cra
No heavy rain early this morning. There are raindrops here across northern Baltimore County and a couple of drops also west of nwarrenton. Heavy rain yet. That will be much more of an issue later on in the day. The flood watch includes all of tothe metro washing area, southern maryland, metro baltimore, frederick and hagers town today and gusty winds along with the storms today. Its steamy. Mid70s this morning and afternoon high up to 90. Afternoon commute likely to be hardhit by heavy ra and thunderstorm. Jack taylor has issues before that gets going this morning. Ly certaino. Unfortunately, from mondays storms we are still dealing with those. Canal road is closed until further notice betwn reservoir and foxhall. F tunately, with the Structural Integrity of the roadway, this will remain blocked until further notice. We also had activity on the beltway out of the Prince Georges County. Up at kenilworth avenue. The tractortrailer has been dghup ateon he shoulder throughout the rush hour
Thank y d. Youreng such exciting things. I cant wait to share this with our viewers. Youre auaressing the qty of life issue on several fronts, and you have several wonderful projects in the works. Tell us all, though, how bbar got start. Well, it began with the w. C. Smith company, an organization that purchased properties,es villag of parkland back in the 90s and sought a place for families to go. And because of that, they created what i consider a right now at all the ark,he t town hall recreation campus. It really was for residents to have a place to go in a difficult neighborhood. Your programs and projects very creatively address social and economic disparities primarily in wards 7 and 8 . Nd yes. A in recent years youve expanded your footprint by leading programs and partnerships in education and the arts and recreation campus which we know as the arc. Tell us about some of these. Let me give you our vision. So our vision is really for residents east of the river to create a comm
23yearold zspears. She was found shot and killed and her body found just off of Eastern Avenue and 59th avenue. Police say the tnsgender woman had been shot multiple times. In march just a few blocks away another transgender woman was found shot to death. He murder is still unsolved. The two women knew each other according to Prince Georges County police, but they say its too early to say the two murders are connected. What i can say to you, tracee, is that its unusual like e had two murders this in a couple blocks of each other. What we will say to the community thats out there and look out for each other. I still cant say that these two cases are related to each other. Its something that we e looking at very closely. But the key to that is that the women that are out there i know from interviews from the detectives speaking to them. Like i said, its a close group that look out for each other. We ask them to continue doing that. Prince georges county police, fairmont Heights Police al
Some of the important racial populations in the city. In particular, the native american population. We wanted to start in the historical beginnings, the first time we have written records in that was ind. C. , 1908 when john smith came up from jamestown and went to the native American Village on the banks of the anacostia. Lets focus on the early american period. What was the makeup at the time . Prof. Musgrove once congress got here in 1800, it was 20 africanamerican. D. C. Was carved out of tobacco plantation counties. They were plantations in the middle of the city today. There was already a large black population in the area. As folks who were building the capital decided to employ slaves, and in certain cases, free blacks on the Construction Projects building the capital, that population remained constant through the end of the antebellum period. How many africanamericans were free compared to those who were enslaved . Prof. Musgrove when Congress Comes to town in 1800, the vast