In retirement, former U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin is braving wind and waves to see the world on sailing adventures Ian Richardson, Des Moines Register
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When Tom Harkin was stationed in Japan in the 1960s, he and one of his fellow Navy pilots developed a plan to sail around the world.
They had a sailboat built that they named the Argo, an allusion to the mythological voyage of Jason and the Argonauts. Harkin charted a course to sail south from Japan to the Philippines, up the Strait of Malacca to India and around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, eventually ending up in the United States.
here is doug luzader with details about a new campaign ad causing a stir. reporter: osama bin laden was killed by navy seal team, one year ago tomorrow republicans say the white house is trying to turn this into a campaign issue. president obama on the hunt for money last night at a private virginia campaign fundraiser hours later came this. then there was the victory no one saw coming a 7 minute campaign video on youtube, out thing the president s accomplishments including the navy seal team attack on osama bin laden s headquarters last year. likely republican nominee mitt romney would not have made that call. all i know, is that he probably would not have given the raid. republicans say all of this including an interview later on nbc, where the president grants access to the white house situation room smacks of election year politics and spiking the football, as the president once warned against. he managed to turn it into a devie sieve partisan, political attac
north and west, dulles and baltimore 47, 50 here in washington, fredericksburg, 54 degrees mix of clouds and sunshine, partly sunny day, as we ve got a warm front off to the south and west, allison mentioned the warmer air on the way, cloud cover and possibility of a few showers i think the best chance of showers may be a thunder storm later tonight and during the day tomorrow as that warm air starts to move in clouds will start to move in, in anticipation of that warm front arriving later tonight. partial sunshine, 66 washington, 65 la plata. let s see how traffic is flowing on your monday morning julie. all right tucker on the roads, you will find the accident activity tieing up your road along suit land parkway, pennsylvania avenue, no problems to report 295 but goes from 210 to the they vail research lab and in bound, on 50. you are down to 40 miles an hour 202 land overheaded in towards northeast, no problems along new york avenue as you continue in from northeast to n
outside right now, the sun trying to come up out there. going to be a gorgeous day on this monday. good morning everyone, i m sarah simmons. and i m wisdom martin. time to talk now about weather. tucker barnes joins us. reporter: good morning, it is a little cool out there. 40s and low 50s as we start our day. kind of partly sunny and as we get into the rest of the week here, we are going to be on the warmer side. 80s in the forecast. generally going to be a nice week. reporter: more humidity for those who like that as well. lower humidity? no, more humidity. your satellite picture here showing just a few clouds. high, thin clouds off to our south and west. there is a warm front out there, and that will start to move in. the filtered sunshine we get from time to time, cool 50 at reagan national, 47 at dulles. jacket here to start your day, mid-60s for afternoon high temperatures. a little on the cool side as temperatures are set to warm up here. we should be dry
and allison back upstairs to you. thank you very much. wet and slick roads, added to a terrible morning in parts of the belt way an accident that happened 2:00 a.m. this morning tied up traffic for hours, tractor trailer and two cars collided on the outer loop between coalsville road and georgia avenue, one person was killed another went to the hospital in serious condition, all lanes were reopened 4 hours, after that accident. and take a look at this scene this is in clinton maryland a car slams into the front of a house, it happened this morning, new pictures just in to fox 5 a car left old branch avenue came up the lawn and crashed into the living room of a home in the 8400 block a driver was slightly hurt no one in side was injured. new this morning an update on a case that is being closely followed across the country. george zimmerman the man accused of shooting and killing florida teenager trayvon martin was released on bond around midnight last night. fox 5s me