Good morning. I would like to welcome you to historic fort stevens. Come on up. On behalf of the National Park service, we would like to welcome you to historic fort stevens and the 55th anniversary of the battle of commemoration. I am the Program Manager for the civil war defenses of washington, and that is a long or what encircles the National Park Service Number which manages 18 of the forts, as well as battleground national cemetery. Presenttime, we will the colors. Today, representing the 54th regiment of massachusetts and the united colored troops from connecticut. Withe going to open now the presentation of colors. [national anthem] [applause] please be seated. For those who are wondering, that was the hymn from the 1861 weldon,itten by oliver sung by harold hartford. We have greetings from our part superintendent at this time, julia washburn. [applause] julia good morning, everybody. What a Beautiful Day we have. We really lucked out on the weather and it feels like it may be h
We want to begin this morning with updates on two accidents that had major impacts on the morning commute. The first on the outer loop of the beltway. This is between university boulevard and New Hampshire nvga t. Clpd e thhcr leavasing morning commuters sitting in a six mile backup. Still no details on the victim or how the crash happened. And the other accident was also on the beltway. Chopper 4 on thecene on the inner loop just after connecticut avenue. E e there. You see a truck split open spilling bundles of magazines on to the road. The lays remain. No word yet on what caused this crash either. That is how it sounded and looked yesterday, mt. Airy was under a tornado warning. Peoplh waking up wit a big mess to clean up. You cane see on of yesterdays storms blowing right across the district. Severe weather being blamed for one deathn maryland. A tree fell on a home in carroll county, killing an 89yearold man inside. There are tree branches down ale across t area. Including right h
Try. Leaving court, inbekgs attorney declined comment. His older brother telling me hes completely shocked by what happened. Now beard bettsking faces up to two life terms in prison when hes sentenced in november. As for those babies, they are being cared for by the victims families. Jim, ack to you in thestudio. Just beyond disturbing. Julie, thank you. New tonight at 5 00, a guilty plea in tht crash tha took the life of a biking safety advocate. Robert little youll remember plead guilty to the crash that killed david salvish while he was on his bake on florida avenue earlier this year. He was an avid Bicycle Safety advocate. Little pleaded guilty exchange for a reduced charge of voluntary manslaughter. Hes set to be sentenced in september. The National Weather service is looking over radar data, and storm reports in frederick and carroll counties trying to figure out if aordo touched down and killed a man during yesterdays storms. That storm brought down a tree last night in function
Severe thunderstorms with damaging wind gusts, but, doug, really heavye1rainfalls, flash flooding could be an issue tonight. Its going to be a major concern all through the night. You seeth the first line here wi a couple of severe thunderstorms, one towards baltimore, another through Prince Georges County and the district. More storms back to the wes this isjfe1 the area that werey worried about for flash flooding right now weree1 tcking this storm right in here. This is right around thee1 bethesda area. Look at the incredible amount of hahp hc tjust made its way through d. C. Right over our studios. I got tonre1 tell you, looking outside, it was the darkest ive ever seen a storm come through. It looked like nightt outside. All the lights came on in our parking lot. n t w3 jf over towards college next line. Over towards college l of thesee1 boxes here all all Flash Flood Warnings. Just about our entire area under a. M. So, guys,e1 weret just gettin started. Its going to be a long coup
Correspondent from 2008 to 2016, primarily american politics. He was on popular outlets as nbc nightly today, nbc and msnbc. After leaving, russert embarked on a three year, six continent travel expedition that took him to nearly 70 countries. Published by harper horizon, his first book and look for me there is a reflection of his deeply personal journey across many diverse external places. He is the son, the late tim russert of meet the press and vanity fair writer maureen orth. Russert resides in washington d. C. With his pug and going to butcher this, i bet shock of shock imo. You may have to explain that a little bit for. All right thank you. So help me. Welcome. Luke russert, andrea you. Thank you so much leland for a wonderful introduction and its thrill for me to be at cramers because my publisher said we where would you like to speak in washington. And i said, well, itd be disingenuous if i went anywhere else except for cramers, because this literally is my bookstore, a dirty s