Pennsylvania studying with the now president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard, people were saying, isnt this unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first president of harvard. [laughter] elizabeth embarked on a career as a historian for the National Parks service, working at the Clara Barton House and arlington house. In 1988, she published clara barton, professional angel are comeanwhile, her career took off in a different direction when she entered the u. S. Foreign service and served 20 years, now this is typical back ground for a civil war historian, elizabeth served 20 years as a highly decorated senior diplomat and conventional arms negotiator for the state department. She has spoken all over the world on American History. And american diplomacy. And appe
Is the second closure unless the amount that is to get the work done and it was the work they did over the weekend that it to you gentlemen is on the bridge and also some resurfacing these are the weekend that would normally use the bridge again over this Holiday Weekend as we were talking about the got the work done that everything done on time reopened and called the problems over the weekend but obviously the hope was that it is open for the evening commute all the people coming back for memorial day obviously tomorrow morning that is the big test would have to commit traffic in the mix to combat here and not many cars on the road the people that are on the road are enjoying the fact bridge reopened. George it carries so much of the extra traffic the whole for lighter than usual holiday traffic that was not the case no metering lights the Golden Gate Bridge will have three lanes in each direction that not want to change the bridge or this morning for this holiday monday if youre hea
The team from houston. Eastbound lanes are other at 3 45. They needed to do this week over the weekend and they decided they would carefully check the calendar and picked out these dates thinking it would have the least effect on people that would normally use the bridge. What did they do . General maintenance to the bridge but at the same time they used the large pieces of the surface to work on the bridge. It caused traffic issues on may 8th, 9th and 10th but especially at the bay bridge. A lot of people will be coming home from their memorial day weekend and that will help that flow of traffic but more to the point tomorrow morning as we start to get the traffic coming in from that long holiday weekend, the commute should not be affected at all which is great news for folks traveling across the bridge. Thank you, jackie. Lets take a look at that route. The bay bridge where we have been experiencing as you would expect light traffic i÷i÷ vall morning long. And while we may see some
Everybody was. We were crying. We knew he was gone but kept performing c. P. R. We said a bunch of prayers. Left it in gods hand he started coughing up water. Kevin a remarkable account by all three of the individuals. The young 7yearold boy were told may be transferred to a Second Hospital for observation but he is stable and expected to survive. We are being told the boy is an avid swimmer and has been in the water many times before. Everyone just happy he is going to make it through. We will have more tonight. Im kevin lewis. Abc7 news. Alison thank you. Well the weather this memorial day has been absolutely perfect so far. What should we expect in the coming hours . For that we go to meteorologist devon lucie in the storm watch weather center. Devon we should expect more humidity starting to work back. Maybe you have felt that it has been more humid than previous days as we have gone through the memorial day weekend. The real time temperatures are outside. Its 70 in cumberland. Spe
Day singalong for the 200th anniversary of of our starspangled banner. [applause] thats right. 200 years ago this year, Francis Scott key wrote the words to a poem to defense of forth mchenry and set it to a british tune and together, they formed our national anthem, the star spangled banner. Here, we explore americas history through collections, research, and public outreach. We help people understand the past, to and to shape a more humane future. And we are hoping our program will be able to do all of that by bringing the nation together. We are not just bringing people together here in washington, d. C. On the National Mall, but also all over our country and indeed, world. Id like to send a special welcome to our streaming audience who is watching us via Youtube Ustream and welcome espn, welcome all of you. It is very important that our conductors are wellknown for bringing along singers from all over the world with his virtual choir projects. I would like you all to join me in tha