A view down Pennsylvania Avenue shows the security around the Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other officials provided more details of the “unprecedented” security for next week’s inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.
Those measures include fencing off nearly the entire National Mall and widespread street closures and vehicle checks that will create a “hardened perimeter” around a large chunk of downtown D.C.
Late Friday evening, Virginia’s congressional delegation announced nearly all of the major bridges crossing the Potomac River from Virginia into D.C. would close next week, from early Tuesday morning to early Thursday morning.
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Carol Johnson, Leading Landscape Architect, Dies at 91
Her firm, one of the largest owned by a woman, was known for large-scale projects in Boston, Washington and elsewhere.
Carol Johnson at John F. Kennedy Park in Cambridge, Mass., which her firm designed. She “pushed open the door for acceptance of a larger, woman-owned firm doing prestigious and complex projects,” a colleague said.Credit.via The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Published Jan. 8, 2021Updated Jan. 11, 2021
Carol Johnson, who transformed derelict sites into striking civic parks as the founder of what would become one of the country’s largest landscape architecture firms owned by a woman, died on Dec. 11 at her home in Boothbay Harbor, Me. She was 91.
a high school here in new york. today they think this is a teaching moment, craig. back to you. rehema ellis there on the ground with the young people. rehe rehema, thank you. some of the signs i ve seen so far for this rally are absolutely fantastic. let s go to washington, d.c., the nation s capital. demonstrators there set to take their protest straight to lawmakers on capitol hill. msnbc s mariana atencio is there. are lawmakers expected to address the crowd at all? reporter: craig, we are expecting to hear from representative aoc, alexandria ocasio-cortez, and ayanna pressley as well as representative ilhan omar according to organizers. i can tell you thousands of people led by these young climate activists are out here on the streets of the nation s capital. we just walked from john marshall park to the capital.