Thats npclive. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Id ask that each of you stand briefly as your name is announced. Please hold your applause until i have finished introducing the entire table. From your right, dylan brown, a reporter from E E Publishing; gene tighe, director of bbn technologies, and a Longtime National park volunteer; maria recio, a correspondent from mcclatchy newspapers; will shafroth, president and ceo of the National Park foundation; elizabeth bumiller, Washington Bureau chief of the new york times; the honorable john warner, former secretary of the navy and United States senator from the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] thank you, senator. Ferdous alfaruque, medical device reporter for medtech insight and a press club board member. Skipping over our speaker for just a minute, rod kurkro, reporter at E E Publishing and the press Club Speakers Committee member who organized todays event. Thank you, rod. Tom crosson, the chief of Public Affairs for
Effects of Climate Change in parks, including the loss of glaciers, coastlines, and wildlife habitats, addressing wellpublicized occurrences of Sexual Harassment in the grand canyon and other parks, dealing with the effects of energy and other developments in proximately to the parks. In his career jarvis has worn , every hat you could wear in the park service. Even though every hat at the park service looks alike. He has been a scientist, ranger, director, and now director. I would like to thank him who agreed last fall to come to my january inauguration. That was before the snowzilla that crippled washington. Jarvis came to the inaugural. Today we have slightly better weather. This is the first time the Park Service Director has addressed the club. Please welcome Jonathan Jarvis as he speaks about the 100th anniversary of the National Park service. [applause] mr. Jarvis welcome, everybody. Thank you, tommy. It is great to be back in a little warmer weather than we when were here. Tha
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The week cooler. New this Morning Police quickly found and arrested a robbery suspect in Virginia Beach. You can see investigators on scene at the 711 on northampton boulevard and baker road. They got the call just before 2 am. Dispatchers say the robbed a customer in the parking lot. First responders took the victim to the hospital with minor injuries to the leg. Police arent looking for any other suspects. Also new this morning, we are working to find out more about a crash in chesapeake. Police say one car crashed on bainbridge boulevard on the off ramp towards south military highway around 10 50 last night. A 10 on your side viewer sent us this video of crews heading to the scene. Police say the man tried to run away from the car, but they caught him a short time later. Nobody was hurt, but Police Suspect the man was driving drunk. We;ll let you know when we get more information about charges against him. And also new this morning, a tractor Trailer Crash is blocking the westbound
Area. Then a warm front will lifts north by wednesday and absorbs the low. We can expect a warm day wednesday with showers as we sit in the possible. Stay tuned. Nice weather by the end of the week cooler. New this Morning Police quickly found and arrested a robbery suspect in Virginia Beach. You can see investigators on scene at the 711 on northampton boulevard and baker road. They got the call just before 2 am. Dispatchers say the suspect with a knife robbed a customer in the parking lot. First responders took the victim to the hospital with minor injuries to the leg. Police arent looking for any other suspects. Also new this morning, we are working to find out more about a crash in chesapeake. Police say a driver flipped on bainbridge boulevard at the off ramp towards south military highway. It happened around 10 50 last night. A 10 on your video of crews heading to the scene. Police say the driver ran from the car, but they caught him. They say he was driving drunk. Well let you kn