Neighborhood, and those buildings carried important symbolism for people across america and around the globe. Tonight, you will hear from the man entrusted with the care of many of those structures. The architect of the capitols office is responsible to the Supreme Court for the maintenance, operation, development, and preservation of more than 17 million square feet of buildings, and more than 553 acres of land to our capitol hill, including the u. S. Capitol , senate and house Office Buildings, the library of congress, and many others. In 2000 10, Stephen Ayers was named the 11th architect of the capitol after being nominated by president obama and confirmed by the senate for a 10 year term. After studying architecture at the university of maryland, mr. Errors ayres joined the air force. Following five years of active duty, he went into private practice. He then joined the voice of america, where he led design and construction efforts in greece and in germany. After five years abroad
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Important lesson about friendship. All that and so much more on cbs this Morning Saturday, saturday, october 20, 2012. Welcome to the weekend. We begin with a countdown to the pivotal final debate between president obama and republican challenger mitt romney. Monday night in boca raton, florida. Cbs news political news correspondent jan crawford isnt far from there in daytona beach. Jan, good morning. Reporter well good morning. Romney was here last night for a big rally. Its expected to be his last major event going into monday nights debate and with the polls tightening many of those National Polls showing romney in the lead. The president on a campaign trail has really sharpened his attacks and we saw it yesterday when it got personal. President obama actually came up with a new word and last night in that rally romney had an indirect although not too subtle answer. At a rally in virginia the president introduced a new word in the political vocabulary. I mean hes changing up so much
All that and so much more on cbs this Morning Saturday, saturday, october 20, 2012. Welcome to the weekend. We begin with a countdown to the pivotal final debate between president obama and republican challenger mitt romney. Monday night in boca raton, florida. Cbs news political news correspondent jan crawford isnt far from there in daytona beach. Jan, good morning. Reporter well good morning. Romney was here last night for a big rally. Its expected to be his last major event going into monday nights debate and with the polls tightening many of those National Polls showing romney in the lead. The president on a campaign trail has really sharpened his it yesterday when it got personal. President obama actually came up with a new word and last night in that rally romney had an indirect although not too subtle answer. At a rally in virginia the president introduced a new word in the political vocabulary. I mean hes changing up so much and back tracking and side stepping. We got a name th
Menu continues right now. Righ straight up 5 00 right now on this tuesday, january 29th. A live look outside. I remember a few days ago, we had this picture up and you can tell it was a blanket of white. Just a little bit reflecting out of there as we got the snow. Today, it should be quieter and much warmer out there too. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. The teachers were happy because they got that snow and got a couple of hours here and there out of school. Now, it is back to normal. And its gwen also fault. All right. Im take the heat. It will be warming up today t will be fairly mild compared to what we have had. Here is a look at your sentinel radar where you can see a few scattered showers to areas of our west. Other than that, were just dealing with some fog this morning. Well see low clouds as well and the clouds will increase into the course of the day. Yesterday, we reached 44 degrees at Reagan National airport. 40 at dulles. The same at Bwi Thurgood Marshall and this hou