Reflects on another band of brothers, no less tried by battle and certainly one in the survival of our nations freedom. His book, washingtons immortals the untold story of an elite regiment who changed the course of the revolution, chronicles a group of rich merchants, tradesmen, and free blacks who made up the first maryland regiment of the revolutionary war. Memorialized to most of us as the maryland 400. Through mr. Odonnells were, we relive their actions in subsequent battles for independence, key to the ultimate establishment of the United States of america. A bestselling military historian, mr. Odonnell has authored 10 books including, seals. Lor and he speaks often on espionage, special operations, and counterinsurgency. It is a pleasure to welcome here today as we look at the historic perspective of the founding of our nation. Patrick. [applause] patrick thank you. And an honor to be here today. It for me, the journey for watching 10s immortal started centuries ago when i was i
Hey, good morning and one of the first things we noticed when we came down on gallery street in buoy is the amount of leaves on the street which showed us really that Something Big came through here probably very high winds. We know there were warnings, of course, of possible 60 mile an hour wind gusts and quarter size hail and storm did not disappoint. Fox5 viewers in the season helped tell the story of the storm. Lets start with an impressive picture a huge Lightning Strike near the national zoo. People told us they felt that one, too, we also saw pictures of at approaching storm front impressive cloud deck there coming and the hail, everybody showing us picture of hail. Covering decks, causing damage especially when you consider some of these hail stones, again, not disappointing, quarter size, yeah, how about golf ball size. High wind knocking down trees and really in too many places to count. That includes that is just back out live now this is just a tree branch. We have a number
Popped up, now, in the Prince William county area. So, south of manassas, and east of presentsville to lake ridge, probably has some pretty heavy rain in it, so heads up there, what we would be concerned about is you might get some ponding on roadways, and just water, again, flashflooding will be a concern. To our south there is a severe thunderstorm watch. Down toward the charlottesville area. Thats not to say we dont get some strong or severe storms. Here is the area that is un a severe thunderstorm watch. Than goes until 10 00 tonight t does include southern and western communities, but again, we still have the risk of seeing some isolated stronger storms pop up. Were going to describe it as marginal risk in the green, and slight risk in the yellow. So the better chances in the yellow area, for gust that is coy avenue prepare 60 miles per hour, heavy downpours, maybe hail, cloud to grounds lightning, much better chance of seeing that after 8 00. So, heads up for late practices, or a
Is the safest out. The safety of every community is our highest priority. For thousands of commuters that take amtrak into or out of the city, the derailment make an unscheduled transfer to silver spring. It is challenging and only monday. You can see the work going on. They are pulling a big section of rail. Im not sure if that is going in or out. They are rushing to move a lot of the rail cars out of here and got most of them out already. They want to get the track reopened. But they are going to need to removal of the soil that was contaminated with that ethyanol and put in clean soil before they get the train going. All of that could take time. C sx sa air around that site. It hasnt found any problems so far but again it is just not clear how much longer it will take to get the line reopened. More problems here. A yellow weather alert again. First alert meteorologist topper shutt with us. What can we expect. Between 11 and 3 00 a. M. Will be the critical times. The Severe Weather t
That we need your help. Celebrating ram done as a refugee. It is usually a time of reflection, and people fast and dont drink anything all day. And thats incredibly difficult under these circumstances. Front line iraq, the struggle to keep faith in a time of war. Good evening everyone, thank you for joining us. We hear from tourists braving it out. Hurricane arthur is barreling up the east coast. And taking aim at North Carolinas outer banks. Its expected to make land fall, mid afternoon friday. Bringing up to fiveinches of rain. Thursday morning vacationers were soaking up the last rays of sunshine. We are asking visitors to be extremely careful, as to not put our personnel in unneeded jeopardy. I have mentioned this before to citizens, dont put your stupid hat on. The straight has imposed mandatory evacuations. Before heading inhand. We are totally adjusting our plan. We love the ocean. But dont want to just spend our time in the rain for the next 24 hours. Others are hunkers down an