Legislative calendar. So where do we go from here. Can we get any of it done . Joining me now, tammy bruins amy holmes. And hugo gerks rgen. A full plate mixed signals. We would expect that, the stakes are high. President trump is also aiming high. Hes not just aiming for changes around the edges. He wanted that as has the republicans on tap hill for the entire year. They have shown themselves so far incapable of doing it. But there are some positive noises about this new agreement about cost sharing, et cetera, between the democrat and the republican. Im sceptical about how easy that would be and whether they want to get that done now before they do tax reform. The momentum is with tax reform. He will start selling that. The last thing they want to do is mix the message and turn it to healthcare reform. Charles mixed messages have been the form. Tammy it was interesting the president and the Senate Leader in the rose garden signaling they have come together. Then we have this announce
A car at a high rate of speed and eventually caused the crash on the 215. The suspect was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. Denise Valdez two new cases of the zika virus have been reported in the us. Health officials in ohio and indiana say two people returning from haiti tested positive for the virus. Which is mainly transmitted through mosquito bites. paul joncich the Southern Nevada Health District has tested two people who have recently traveled to the affected countries. One test has come back negative. The second one is still pending. As the Health District monitors the virus and domestic cases. A local Blood Donation center is feeling the impact. United Blood Services says they have received fewer donations after the zika virus began spreading in mexico, central america, south america and some parts of the caribbean. Denise Valdez in fact, the organization anticipates a 2 percent decrease in Blood Donations. Thats because they are advising anyone who has traveled to the
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You can read faster than i can talk so i wont read the slides. I want you to see beautiful places i love. They are history and parks and recreation and National Resources and frankly the lungs of the city are largely these forts and the parks. So there we start. As frank said the city was unprotected down below. This is Fort Washington. If you havent been there, you should go. Its quite different from the forts that were built during the civil war. After bull run, lincoln knew the city was vulnerable. Thats when he ordered director Major General john g. Barnard to design forts around the city to protect it. Here they are. These are the ones available there. It was quite an amazing feat to build all those. It was just tremendous. Here they are there. Ive circled them here on this old map, the ones that are under government ownership today. The park service owns all the ones in washington, d. C. And one in maryland and one in virginia. The ones in virginia are owned by local governments.
Directed the American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on environmental quality. Today miss newman will discuss the post war impact on the forts, on the surrounding neighborhoods in washington and their evolution into parks. And kim elder. Miss elder is the National Parks Services Program manager for civil war defenses of washington. She is responsible for the management, the Oversight Program development of 16 for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries opened and operated by the National Parks service. So today ms. Elder will highlight the parks today and provide us with a preview of this weekends activities at fort stevens. So let me begin now with dr. Cooling. [ applause ] good afternoon, folks. Pleasure to be back in this lovely facility even if every time i come here i go in the wrong entrance to the National Archives. As a researcher, i became very accustomed over 30 years or more of going in the other side. Well, you dont want to hear about that today. Ill