Abolitionist, civil war spy and suffragist Harriet Tubman. Welcome to Harriet Tubman underground railroad state park. My name is Ranger Crenshaw and here we highlight Harriet Tubmans early years. She was born not three miles east of here in the town of madison and she spent a lot of time in this area as well as bucktown a few miles west of here. It was here in this area of Dorchester County that she learned the skills vital to make her a successful conductor on the underground railroad, reading the landscape, reading the stars, foraging for food and being comfortable outdoors by herself. Id like to highlight a little bit about our Visitors Center. This building is lined in cedar. These last three buildings are lined in zinc and the idea behind the zinc is that over time it will begin to patina and weather kind of like copper begins to patina and it will begin to fade and the idea is that after you come through our Visitors Center your ignorance about Harriet Tubmans life with the under
Multiple times. That individual is being rushed to the hospital. We have got a crew headed that way and another crew working behind the scenes to gather more details before this newscast is over. We will bring them to you as soon as we get them. Alexandria woman is at fairfax innova hospital with serious injuries after she crashed her small piper plane into the backyard of a home in bristow. Virginia state police say the woman is 50yearold car rita barnes. Apparently, her plane lost power and went down in the 9800 block of upper mill loop but she managed to avoid hitting any homes. Derrick ward was at the scene and talked to witnesses. Reporter sound and sight of airplanes overhead, not unusual, but the sounds and sights of this sunday morning were something quite different. We heard the aircraft come in, low rpms. I just heard a loud thump. Scary, you hear noise like that you never heard before. Terry smith checked on his family, had his wife call 911 and got to the wreckage. Plane ha
The evidence of her deed resides in various archives. 1863, she makes an appearance as a witness in a courtmartial procedure. At the time, she was working as a nurse. The Court Transcripts allows us to hear in her own words. As theeived a pension widow of the union veteran. He had served as a private in the colored infantry. After he died, she dish in congress for additional benefits for her own service. Congress received numerous documents. It they are here in the records of the house of representatives. In 1899, this authorized an 20 ase in her pension to month for her service as a nurse. Tonight, a panel will examine the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman and the preservation efforts of her birthplace. We will begin with a presentation. She is filling in for Robert Parker is the new program. He was unable to be with us tonight. Dr. Jones is the archivist at morgan state. Her scholarship is evident in numerous publications. Of threee author autobiographies of table figures in African
Yeah, i know. Wet weather that started thursday and continued on and off through this morning but its almost over. I mean, the last of the rain showers are pulling out so were actually going to see this system exit by the noon hour o it will still stay cloudy though. I dont think well see much sunshine. As we take a live look outside on this saturday morning, good morning to you all. Gray skies await. You can see them for miles. This is turning into a pretty complex storm system this noreaster that is moving up the southeast coast and will eventually position itself over new england before the weekend is over bringing a lot of rain to places like boston and new york city but for us in washington look at the western edge of the rain has now pretty much cleared the district. Theres some wraparound showers across the mountains and i wouldnt say were rain free for the rest of the day but the overall trend is for the storm to move out and the rain ending. Not seeing showers in washington ju
Oh, my god she lift the gun. Reporter troy scott, he was here. Please moved in. They shut this whole block down. Couldnt go past. Reporter did you hear them yell for her to drop the gun . Yeah. Reporter and she didnt, did she . No. Reporter police chief said the cops had working body cameras. The officers did have their body camera activated at the time and we did recover the suspects weapon which was a black semiautomatic pistol. Reporter the suspect has been identified at 41yearold Isabelle Duvall she was taken from the scene to a hospital where she died a short time later. They say shes from the winchester, virginia. What brought her here to washington and why did she have that gun and what did she plan to do with it . A lot of questions unanswered, a done. Live in southwest, pat collins, news4. Here at the live desk were seeing traffic backed up for up to three miles in each direction after a deadly wrong way crash on route 50. That is the word were getting right now from our siste