Okay, everyone. So good evening, everyone. Good evening. Welcome to health center. I only hospital and the annual benjamin drive emancipation day celebration. My name is Sharita Thompson and i work with marion brown. For the last eight. Heres hoping to organize an annual to celebrate and recognize d. C. Emancipation act becoming law on april 16th of 1862 and a free of a little over 3000 slave persons held in the district along in the series was named in honor of Benjamin Drummond, who was born around 1843 in nassau, new york. Drummond, a 24 year old black slave owner, was the first patient admitted to naval hospital, now known as the old vic. The hospital, when it opened on october 1st in 1866. Drummond was initially in assassins while serving on the u. S. Morning light. He was actually shot in the leg. He would receive care for that in. A naval hospital, orleans, on december six, 1864, joining in the navy and came to be a patient in this building on october first of 1866, when he when
This morning the family of sandra bland says they will keep demanding answers after a grand jury failed to indict anyone for her arrest, arrest over the summer, videotape and death and jail capturing headlines around the world and welcome to your world im del walters. Im in for stephanie sy, prosecutor insists the case is not over yet and we begin with Al Jazeera John henry smith who has more on the grand jurys decision. Reporter for more than ten hours a grand jury in texas discussed evidence presented by special prosecutors in last summers jail house death of sandra bland and died three days after this traffic stop. Grand jury did not return an indictment. The grand jury also considered things that occurred at the jail and did not return an indictment. Reporter the coroner says she hanged herself in the jail using trash bags and special prosecutors would not say anything other than the team carefully reviewed video of blands time in jail. As far as what happened today the details of
Outside this morning, a clear sky as viewed by tower cam over downtown. Weather headlines before the fine looking day before thanksgiving. Grab the coat on the way out the door. Youll be loving the sunshine. Get away weather is a okay from the nations capitol. Temperatures in the chilly 20s and 30s across most of the area. The next 24 hours, cool this morning. Temperatures mid 30s. Near 50 by 7 00 tonight. A lot of people headed to the airports. Take a look at the big board. Still no major delays at any of the big hubs anywhere around the u. S. That is welcome news. Talk about the forecast for driving in a couple more minutes. For now, speaking of driving, heres melissa in first 4 traffic. Breaking news, 15 still shut down between lucketts and leesburg this morning because of a tractortrailer crash. Southbound traffic diverted at stumptown road. You cannot get further on 15 than battlefield. 95 going to look different this afternoon and this evening and throughout. Probably the weekend
Not only will that campaign have saved tens of thousands of lives, it can save millions of dollars. An ounce of prevention can have a pound of cure the impact. That is the case with tobacco control. Exports, it is the question of doing it and the employment things proven to work. One is hard hit in campaigns. What we did was pull back the curtain. We have taking care of it far too many patience who have had heart attacks. Smoking does not to cause cancer. It defects every part of your body. We are taking care of who sixth brought to their families too early. We showed what it was like for people, very courageous americans who live with this problem. People quit until the 10s of thousands. We plan to run another and an arab state and with that can and it is like. Guest i totally agree. If you were to pick out one among any, smoking is scholarly in my mind and others the most important when you think of the impact on that smoking on some of any organ systems. Not only be cancers, not onl
Bring these men to trial, now while we can do so on our own terms and give the Defense Department the Legal Authority it needs to make the right decisions about these prisoners. It is costing us 2. 7 million per detainee per year versus 34,000 at a maximum prison in the United States. More than 300 individuals convicted of crime related to terrorism are currently incarcerated in federal prisons with no escapes. The role in the benghazi attack is a great example of our ability to deal with highprofile terrorists safely and swiftly. He will not be brought to guantanamo. He will be brought to the United States to answer for his crimes in a federal court and punished in accord answer with the laws of this nation. I have every confidence to bring him to justice. He said its continued operation mock ours values. Its time to put an end to this by supporting this amendment. Let me use one more quote, in the words of the family members of the 9 11 victims, the Current System is immoral, unlawfu