Home in alexandria. Speciale gruber is a exhibition curator for the foundation. She earned her bachelor of arts in Historic Preservation from the university of mary and washington. She contributes to the development of permanent galleries at the museum in yorktown including the signature film liberty fever. Whichveloped exhibitions i highly encourage you to go see. Soldier forgotten africanamericans in the revolution. Ate will present please welcome my good friend, kate gruber. Katherine good afternoon. You have to get through me before you can get to happy hour. I promise that will happen with as much alacrity as possible. All right. Mark twain said it best, as he usually does, clothing makes a man. Little people have little naked people have little to no influence on society. He said the more i learn about people, the more i like my dog. Maybe we should not exactly take his word for it. Also, he dressed like this. [applause] [laughter] katherine why dont we go to the british author r
Yes, that temperature trend does show a climb. You can already see hazy skies in parts of San Francisco. We have that cloud cover rolling in because we are tracking a system as we head into the weekend. Ill break down if its going to bring rain or maybe its not, coming up in a few minutes. Its cool out there. During the rain, they wave off the road crews. When its cold, they are out there working in the cold. That sign indicating slowing. That traffic is jamming up. That means a traffic break is going on closer to 23rd. They will clear it quickly. It will be a five minute delay from the coliseum as this back up forms to the north. Well start to clear and the sensors adjust. By the time they change, things will clear up. A smooth drive for the bay. There are road crews out there. Watch for the cones. Remember, folks are out there and its colder than it is in your car. Back to you. Thanks, mike. 4 31. Continuing coverage on what many will calling a shocking verdict. This morning, more re
America, caught up with world affairs, when the japanese bond pearl harbor. There after he shifts his attention to the navy. He wants to become a naval officer area he sends in his application to be commissioned as an officer in the navy but april 1942 and he joins the navy. He is sent down to cap annapolis where he goes through an officer Training Program then in North Carolina as an athletic officer training pilots in physical activity. He grows bored with that quickly. Almost as quickly as he is down there, he is writing letters to people he knows in washington dc , he is fortunate to find a person who can help them. He gets assigned to an Aircraft Carrier that is being built. The u. S. Monterey or monterey. Ford is responsible for putting the sailors through calisthenics. He is the athletic officer aboard this it. He is also the gunnery officer grade he has a responsibility for gun crews on the aft end of the ship. They get to the pacific in late 1943 and almost immediately are thr
Begin his career as an attorney. We are at the gerald r. Ford Residential Museum in grand rapids, michigan. We are in the gallery where he is beginning his professional career. It is not especially clear even to him, because at the same time that he is establishing hislop thehis law practice he is , applying to become a field agent for the f. B. I. He wants to be a gman. He is writing letters and toward the end of 1941, trying to figure out what the status of his application is. As he is in grand rapids in 1941, he finds himself, along with america, caught up with world affairs, when the japanese bomb pearl harbor. Quickly thereafter, he shifts his attention to the navy. He wants to become a naval officer. He sends in his application to be commissioned as an officer in the navy. By april, 1942, he has joined the navy. He is commissioned as an infant the mesh incent. He is sent to annapolis where he goes through an officer Training Program then in North Carolina as an athletic officer t
The victims of the deadly amtrak crash in philadelphia. Amtrak will pay 265 million to settle all pending claims due to last years fatal derailment in port richmond. The train went off the tracks in 2014. Today they approved the settlement by the victims attorneys. They are all expected to receive their payments by next summer. Federal investigators determined that the train engineer was distracted and he learned of another train getting hit by a rock. Meanwhile, in northeast philadelphia a woman was shot to death behind an apartment complex. And police are still looking for her killer, the attack happened overnight on the 2600 block of welsh road. A second victim was shot at the same location and the surrounding neighborhood was littered with bullets. Annie mccormick is following the investigation and joins us from police headquarters. Reporter rick, neighbors there say that this is not something they are used to seeing in the apartment complex. At least a dozen shots were fired and i