fairfax county last night and a list of road closures four pages long. at least one community, huntington, is assessing the damage from flood waters that forced many from their homes last night. sherri ly is live in huntington with an update. reporter: good morning. the cleanup here for some people has already begun. we saw a man a short time ago hosing his driveway. but the rain has started to come down again. it s why firefighters and the swift water rescue teams are standing by in case they have any additional flooding. this area really is flood prone. five years ago the same streets were under water and last night, about 150 homes were voluntarily evacuated when a flash flood struck again. the flooding hit so fast, some didn t have time to leave. water continues to bubble out from storm drains, even though the flash flooding has receding. water rushed into the neighborhoods, a layer of mud several inches deep has coated the streets and sidewalks. the water topped out
she knew who it was like to live in washington during the years that i was writing about. her husband is a historian. i hope he s been a national book fest writer. jay winnick. he wrote about the last month of the civil war. george read it early on in his presidency. we both were very found of it. the other one, is called the great upheaval. it s a great history of who was going on in the united states during that period. because we think of our founding in a vacuum. we don t really know. did you know that katherine was czar of russia when the united states was founded. i think it s a great way to put our revolution, the american revolution in perspective. we have covered jay winnick. type in the name and watch it online free of charge. second question, in spoken from the heart you write in 2004 the social question that animated was gay marriage. i had talked to george about not making gay marriage a significant issue. we have a number of close friends who are gay o
as i give you, i m afraid at one level that i don t know. but it s quite clear from the documents that it wasn t something that the service was asked to investigate by it s customer departments. there was certainly information coming through that terrible things were happening. and, you know, there was persecution. but the absolute, the true nature and scale of the catastrophe were just not apparent and even the hints of it were just not believed. i m sorry, that s the answer. i think i would add maybe an explanation for this. the service, even in the war, was quite small. it was focused on it s targets and it s objectives. and you can gather from what we ve already said. this was support for invasion of europe. resistance groups in western europe, the weapons. shipping. norway. the targets. and that s in europe. it wasn t looking in that direction. which would explain why, you know, it wasn t it s not there in the documentation. not just because he wasn t being asked
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