My name is cassandra sohyda, and i am a seasonal park ranger here at the chesapeake and ohio canal. I think we are going to cast off here shortly. But we are going to go ahead and start and give you a brief history of here on the canal. All right, so, it is called the chesapeake and ohio canal, but it definitely doesnt reach the the Chesapeake Bay or go all the way up to the ohio river, and is the intention of our canal when we first started building the canal in 1828. We wanted to try to connect the Eastern Shore with what was considered the west back then. The west was up in ohio, pennsylvania, that area. We wanted to connect pittsburgh to the Chesapeake Bay. And so what we did was, we started building this canal. We tried earlier, it was George Washingtons dream to actually use the Potomac River as a way to transport goods. Back then it was seen as a reasonable thing to do, so he went ahead and had a canal system built on that side by using locks to get around the great falls and Po
Good morning and welcome to news4 midday im chris lawrence. And im erika gonzalez. National Weather Service says Dulles Airport hit a record low temperature of one degree early this morning. Right now you are looking at the current temperatures. Big improvement from the one degree. Dont get too 457happy thoug. We have nor snow. Lets get the latest from the meteorologist sheena parveen. Hit a record low this morning about zero degrees. So, yes, its very cold weather. Locally very cold weather in florida wintry mix and snow moving into parts of georgia and carolina as well. This is our next weather system. Heading out into the atlantic, and tonight part of the area start to see snow falling. Ill show you how much coming up in a minute. But temperature wise low to mid20s. Well be breaking 30 degrees this afternoon for some of the area. Big improvement compared to what we have seen over the past few days. In the suburb there you see 31 degrees, then well see the snow moving in. For some of
Always have your back. Securing key endorsements along the way. Im with her. I am ready to get in this fight. Well speak to a top clinton reporter, senator Amy Klobuchar on the historic week, the dems strategy for taking on trump and the investigations that still dog clinton. Its a Fox News Sunday exclusive. Plus, despite growing pressure on Bernie Sanders to drop out, hes still in for now. Well ask our sunday panel if the democrats can unify after a long bruising primary battle. All right now on Fox News Sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington, we begin with breaking news. Police in orlando say approximately 20 people are dead after a shooting inside a florida nightclub, at least 42 people have been taken to area hospitals. It happened early this morn at the pulse orlando nightclub, police described the shooter as, quote, well organized and prepared. They say the shooter in their words was armed with an assaulttype rifle, a handgun and suspicious device and he died in a gu
Always have your back. Securing key endorsements along the way. Im with her. I am ready to get in this fight. Well speak to a top clinton reporter, senator Amy Klobuchar on the historic week, the dems strategy for taking on trump and the investigations that still dog clinton. Its a Fox News Sunday exclusive. Plus, despite growing pressure on Bernie Sanders to drop out, hes still in for now. Well ask our sunday panel if the democrats can unify after a long bruising primary battle. All right now on Fox News Sunday. And hello again from fox news in washington, we begin with breaking news. Police in orlando say approximately 20 people are dead after a shooting inside a florida nightclub, at least 42 people have been taken to area hospitals. It happened early this morning at the pulse orlando nightclub, police described the shooter as, quote, well organized and prepared. They say the shooter in their words was armed with an assaulttype rifle, a handgun and suspicious device and he died in a