Again, give yourself a couple extra minutes, because wednesday can be busy. Fortytwo freeway north bound at creek road approaching 29 five you can see volume level starting to build in this direction as well. Just a little bit ago we didnt see quite this much. It looks like we have a lot of people hitting roadways coming out of the new jersey, freeway friend pulled off to the shoulder not causing any slow downs there. Also make note that we have an accident overturned vehicle in germantown, germantown avenue and washington lane, now germantown avenue is closed, in both directions, and it was affecting the intersection, just a little bit ago and now it is closed in both directions for those in and around that area. Traffic light malfunctions, pal my, yeah new jersey route 73 between river road and hilton road those down wires could cause slow downs heading toward tacony palmyra bridge. Overall busy morning. We will have road closures because pope is coming to town in the the next hit, o
Watch. Erik time for our top stories is one of his best begin with this. German chancellor Angela Merkel is standing out optimism in the greek crisis. They end the night with the leaders of greece in france. Greece once the remaining 8 billion in bailout funds to the void avoid the fall. She says there is a whole lot more to do before that can happen. I will have bilateral talks and have hardly spoken last night with the french president and the greek Prime Minister. It was a very friendly, constructive exchange, but it is clear that further work with the three institutions is necessary. Erik she was referring to the imf. It is behind greeces bailout. President obama says that the u. S. And its allies are not losing the fight against the islamic state. He says more needs to be done to help iraq. They talk to the magazine after isis captured the city of ramadi. Obama says they could use when the war without needing more troops to fight. I can say with full confidence maybe this is a con
Series, reel america featuring films from the 1930s through the 1970s. Cspan3 created by the cabletv industry and funded by your local provider. Like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Announcer each week, american artifacts takes viewers into Historic Sites around the country. Next, we visit the National Museum of health and medicine just outside washington, d. C. , to look at items in their civil war collection. Please note, some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Mr. Clarke welcome. Im tim clarke and im the museums Deputy Director and we are spending time on the civil war medicine exhibit and special other things to show you. The National Museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862. We were known then as the Army Medical Museum and the mission was to collect specimens of morbid anatomy and send them to washington to study to improve the care of the soldier. At the time of the civil war the museums staff were doing the business of Lessons Learned. They we
The National Museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862 and known as the Army Medical Museum and the mission was to collect specimens of morbid anatomy and send them to washington to study to improve the care of the soldier. At the time of the civil war the museums staff were doing the business of Lessons Learned. They were trying to understand the nature of Battlefield Medicine, and trauma and share it with their counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. The first artifacts were on a shelf and in a building that we know as the Riggs Bank Building near the white house. But wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before moving to what became the National Mall in a building built in the 1880 that we family call the old red brick in a buildi
Disaster. What about my troops . Whatever complains black soldiers may have had about lincoln so p progress in a mess and aiding and mans of hating the slaves vanished. They mourned the death of abraham lincoln. There was no greater legacy to abraham lincoln. I notes of legacy. Abraham lincolns usually on a knowledge legacy of the men white and black, in the armies and navies of the union. Look at how they honored lincoln. They behaves as the fine soldiers they had become. I think lincoln would have been proud to know that. The next month following lincolns assassination, and event took place over three days right here in d. C. The grand review of the armies of the east and west. There was a touch of melancholy. Captured so beautifully i chamberlin. Here was the president , his cabinet, ambassadors, judges, offices of the nation and states, but we missed the deep sad eyes of lincoln coming to u. S. Something is lacking to our hearts now at the supreme hour. They were coming home. 600,0