And coordinator of history in of georgement washington university. He joined the u. S. Navy. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1970 in practice Corporate Banking law until he retired. Afterwards, he went back and got a phd in history from George Washington university. He teaches courses in early American History, constitutional history, military and naval history, and today he is going to offer you a paper. Water everywhere istics of the 1975 17751776 campaign. Professor long is a pleasure to be here with you today. Im going to do this a little awkward. Before dawn in 1775, john murray, the fourth earl of dunmore was forced by rebellious virginians to abandon the capital in williamsburg and flee with his family. He fled to the protection of the British Royal navy. The Chesapeake Bay watershed, his territory, was critical to the war effort. The American Revolution interrupted in april of 1775. Virginia was the most populous and profitable of all the colonies in british north ameri
Almost all said the economy is growing fast enough to keep the Unemployment Rate stable or moving lower. Inflation was seen as likely to continue moving higher as the influence of energy and Commodity Prices diminished, although the risks of a stronger dollar were noted the minutes say. As for the market and International Developments that had led them to postpone a september move, they had lessened, the minutes say, market volatility had abated and u. S. Financial system had appeared to have weathered the turbulence in the Global Market without any sign of systemic stress. Consumer spending had remained solid. Business spending was perhaps stronger than had been anticipated given the drop in fracking Energy Production and even given the slower job growth we had seen a number of members reported that companies were telling them it was getting harder to higher workers. Two other key points, in assessing whether to raise rates, they will assess whether Current Conditions are good but the
Closure on the vine and between the schuylkill and broad street. You can see there is a vehicle blocking off the on ramp to get to the vine from the schuylkill so parts of it are blocked. Its supposed to be lifted around 5 00 so they are in the process of lifting that. If youre heading out in the next 10 minutes or so you might run into construction vehicles. Watch out in the overbrook section of the city. Watch out for 63rd and lebanon avenue being blocked off. Chris. Gun fire, explosion, much more in a paris neighborhood that is still on lockdown. There are breaking developments. Two suspected terrorists are dead after police raided an apartment building, searching for the mastermind behind fridays deadly attacks. Lets go matt delucia live in the Digital Operations Center monitoring that. All of the changes coming in now. A lot of changes, police are on the ground in a town outside of paris, and so far at least five people have been arrested and at least two are dead including a woma
Were going to be in for an interesting day. Your next traffic update coming up in ten minutes. Well send it over to you. We continue to follow breaking news from paris. French Police Conducted a raid north of paris targeting suspects in fridays terror attacks. Nick giovanni is following the latest developments from the live desk. Reporter some seven hours into this raid, french officials now saying it is over. That news just in here to the newsroom. Police were targeting the primary suspect of fridays attacks, the alleged master mind as hes being called. One woman blew herself up [ inaudible ] the scene at the apartment no longer an active raid. We are watching right behind me in the Newsroom Police breaking down the door of a nearby church. Actually looking live now at this just blocks away from the apartment complex where this was all unfolding over the last seven hours. Still a fluid situation. Were not sure exactly what theyre after right now. What we can tell you the latest report
People are under arrest. Jonathan vigliotti is here with the latest. Reporter heavy gunfire and explosions rocked the paris suburb. S. W. A. T. Teams hit an Apartment Building looking for the mastermind of the terror attacks. I heard some explosions, four or five explosions. I opened the door and i heard many, many gunshots. Reporter telephone surveillance and eyewitness accounts led police to believe the suspect was hiding in the building. Two people were killed during the shootout that lasted for hours, including a woman who blew herself up with a suicide vest. Residents were jolted awake. This man says his son was screaming as he hid under the bed. This is a poor suburb of paris with a large Muslim Community and also near the National Soccer stadium, one of six sites terrorists targeted. The french president praised the bravery of Security Forces and said his nation is at war against terrorism. French police have conducted more than 400 searches on sunday and seized dozens of weapon