Anniversary of the National Historic perez indication act, an event hosted with parks director robert stanton. This is half an hour. Good morning. Welcome to the United States capitol visits center. My name is beth plemens. And have i the pleasure of being the centers chief executive officer. Were delighted to have you here today as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Historical preservation act. Our exhibits and Education Team have planned a full day of activities, and i do hope that you can fit those into your schedule, as many of those activities as possible. On december 2 in 2008, nearly eight years ago, we opened our doors to the public, and we have welcomed over 17 million visitors to the capitol. One of the themes that we share with those visitors is the role of the architect of the capitol. The architect of the capitol is the steward of the Historic Buildings and grounds on capitol hill. In 1800, Congress Left philadelphia and moved into approximately 25,000 squar
Anniversary of the National Historic perez indication act, an event hosted with parks director robert stanton. This is half an hour. Good morning. Welcome to the United States capitol visits center. My name is beth plemens. And have i the pleasure of being the centers chief executive officer. Were delighted to have you here today as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Historical preservation act. Our exhibits and Education Team have planned a full day of activities, and i do hope that you can fit those into your schedule, as many of those activities as possible. On december 2 in 2008, nearly eight years ago, we opened our doors to the public, and we have welcomed over 17 million visitors to the capitol. One of the themes that we share with those visitors is the role of the architect of the capitol. The architect of the capitol is the steward of the Historic Buildings and grounds on capitol hill. In 1800, Congress Left philadelphia and moved into approximately 25,000 squar
The community and her family as they wait for justice to be served. It was shocking. It was just the violence of it all. Reporter this woman and her daughter live steps away from ali saws memorial. 15yearold allow saw was raped and murdered back in 2011 after walking home from school near a tunnel. I cant imagine. Reporter her alleged killer, 23yearold javier righetti. Back in court after pleading february. That plea was tossed out one month later allowing doctors on both sides to examine his mental competency. The coroner testified it was over 80 stab wounds. He lit her on fire. Reporter prosecutors asked the court to throw out that guilty plea because the plea did not include charges that it was a predetermined and deliberate crime. He took a huge part of our life away. For the last five years. That choice that he made that day and to take alyssas life will change it altered the rest of my life, my familys life and its just its been a difficult journey. Reporter a difficult journey t
Highlands. According to nv energys website they say its because of an equipment failure. It looked like a small substation caught fire near decatur and cactus. And people in the area say they heard a pop. It was the power going out for 4 to 5 seconds and then a large boom and i realized Something Big had exploded so i knew right away it wasnt good and we saw large black plumes of smoke going up over our neighborhood. According to nv energys website power is expected to be fully restored to some customers by 11 00. And for other customers. After 11 00. While the thanksgiving festivities are wrapping up for most of you a lot of people are just Getting Started on another tradition black friday shopping it seems like the sales are starting earlier and earlier every year. And of course that means the stores are already packed. Fox5s Abby Theodros joins us live from the target on sunset and stephanie after spending the who were waiting in line for more than a day. A lot of shoppers chose ski
And at the same time the adams camp accused Andrew Jacksons wife, but it was vicious. We think of it like politics, it was very civil. Adams it was great. It was very not very nice. Was there a particular period of her life or episode in her life or aspect of her life that you were frustrated by this horrible record about and wanted to go into more detail on . Great question. Certainly slavery is one of the things i was interested in. I know it is frustrating because i had census records and legal documents and she didnt write about that stuff. I cant talk about her attitudes in quite that way although she does talk about slavery later. There are periods she goes silent. I felt the lack of her voice in those moments but she did leave, she herself left a vibrant record, not like a lot of women at the time burn their letters because people didnt she burned this. I feel very lucky to have chosen a subject, she later said she had a mania for writing. I would like to think about that later.