Friends on wtop 103. 5 when you hop in your car. 5 01. A neighborhood is on high alerpt after a possible bear attack. And news4s Megan Mcgrath is in great falls this morning. Reporter good morning. There have been several bear sightings in the great falls area including behind the firehouse. Take a look at this still photo that was taken. A bear is walking around. Actually, the back side of the bear going behind that stone structure. It is also believed that a bear attacked a dog on river park lane earlier this week. Well now later on today, trail cameras are going to be installed in the area near that attack. Animal control officials trying to gather more information get a handle on exactly what theyre dealing with here and try and track the bears movements and see if maybe theres more than one bear thats in the area. Now, on tuesday, 6yearold a 6yearold lab named blue was found with claw marks on her side. Her owner initially thought that she was attacked by a raccoon and when the ve
For a short time, as opposed to a wall of somewhere less tall buildings, like the wall of Apartment Hotel buildings along Central Park South that cover a segment of the southern portion of the park for much of the day throughout the year. Here to talk about that is new York City Council member thank you for being here. Youre a tough negotiator. Born and raised in new york city. You love the city and the people in it. Youve been fighting for the rights of the community. Tell me what youve been doing. Well, we have endless numbers of development questions on the east side of manhattan. Not just the super tall buildings, but the sale of stiveson. Weve spent time trying to make sure that the public is getting a decent and fair shake out of these projects. Christina i like the idea of negotiating with the Companies Like Sl Green Realty and saying if youre going to build this large skyscraper, youll have to give the Community Something in exchange. What happened . Thats right. Its a perfect
The way theyre seated but first, a senior fellow for middle east policy who has written excellent analyses of the situation in syria and iraq as well as within islam. If youre not familiar with the analysis preceding the civil war which identified the ground war for possible sectarian conflict in syria, it was really an impression analysis and he remains one of the best analysis of the situation that i know of. Kristin is the president and ceo of the organization and has had a long productive career. I should add they both are members of our task force. Finally, Katherine Zimmerman from the critical threats project at the American Enterprise institute, her article is an excellent read. Finally, as our moderator we are pleased to have kim barker from the New York Times who has tremendous experience reporting from afghanistan and pakistan and whose excellent book i also recommend to all of you on the taliban shuffle, strange days in afghanistan and pakistan. Thank you for having us here
Im jamie colby, in ocean city, maryland, an irresistible atlantic resort town known for its golden beaches and this historic boardwalk. Now, the population may read 7,000, but more than 8 million visit every single year. And im here to meet a family that has a strange inheritance thats been an icon on this boardwalk for more than a century. Hi, doug. Hi. Im jamie. Nice to meet you. So nice to see you, too. Your family really is so well known here. Yeah, im afraid we are. Yeah, weve been here a long time. A long time, indeed since 1890, to be exact. Doug trimpers greatgrandparents daniel and Margaret Trimper purchase two city blocks of oceanfront land. They start with a pair of small hotels but in 1902 decide to risk everything on a new attraction. Daniel wants to bring in a ride unlike any seen before in maryland. He orders a massive carousel from the herschellspillman company. With a diameter of 51 feet, the merrygoround is one of the largest built up to that point. How special is the
Behind this with a high well below average. We have an okay breeze but not howling. 50s and 60s with the cloud cover holding up the lows, and you can see this system moving in, and this is moving away from us with the Energy Source but it has arrived. It will give us cloudy skies with rain in the morning with partly sunny skies and cooler in the afternoon. 60s and 70s, unseasonably cool for some. Morning rain. I see that, mostly 60s and 70s. Thank you, steve. You heard the man, it means your commute could be affected by the rain. Lets go outside and take a look at the tracy commute. For the most part we have like commute on 580 and 205. It does not look too bad driving from the Altamont Pass into the Livermore Valley with no major problems. Turning over to the Castro Valley area, looking at the oracle blue and gold, and the red oracle sign on the building with traffic moving well in both directions. You can see the traffic at the toll plaza is light. It is 4 02 am. The warriors are one