Were supposed to be here this afternoon. Reporter Mary Ellen Foley overcome with emotion upon arriving to see her beloved American Legion post 396 destroyed. Shed been coming here for 25 years even planning a Surprise Party here next month. The uniforms of the men and women who served in our armed forces for many, many years, and the pictures and the medals, things that cant be replaced. Reporter eyebrows raised, of course, as an American Legion post goes up in flames on memorial day. The fire marshal, atf and police all here now looking for a cause but wont speculate. Fire cause is still under investigation. It will be awhile before we can even get inside that building. Reporter jones was driving by and recorded this video from her cell phone as firefighters had just arrived. The smoke was so black and thick with the flames you could feel the heat actually. Smoke first and then as soon as we made the right to come into this part, all you seen was flames. Reporter despite battling the
Happening right now, a massive fire tears through American Legion post on memorial day. On memorial day, its just devastating. Now investigators are looking into what might started it. Good evening, and thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. American legion post 396 more than just a place for veterans to gather it is a cornerstone of the community ton night it is in ruins. Fox 29s brad sattin in bridesburg where firefighters it took them hours to get this thing under control. Brad . Reporter it did, lucy. A lot of tears shed here tonight on the 2300 block of orthodox. Fire breaking out a little after 2 00 oclock this afternoon. We have been here ever since along with about 100 firefighters and initially called to battle this blaze. Some of them as you see are still here on the scene. A cause of the fire at this American Legion post on memorial day still undetermined tonight. Were supposed to be here this afternoon. Reporter Mary Ellen Foley overcome with emotion upon arri
20 minutes and maybe martyrsburg. Winchester 7 43 and we have to watch. Up to the south and east. It has been a wet day and southern maryland. You notice the back edge slowly creeping away. I think it will dry out in just a little while. A sticky night. If you have been outside. The humidity is back. Temperatures are in the mid70s and still 80s in germantown and hay market at 72. Clouds and a sticky night. Could be a spotty shower or storm. Overall, not too bad as temperatures fall through the 70s. But a couple of rain chances coming up in the next few days and picking up towards the end of the week. Sevenday forecast along with first alert doppler pull available on the wusa9 app. Download if you havent because you can take us with you. I will be back in a few minutes and bruce will talk about what taking a live look at the white house where all is back to normal after a security scare. A woman threw something over the fence. Emergency crews swarmed to the scenes that was crowd crowded
He has several books including the long reconstruction of popular politics in the south and after appomattox military occupation and the end of war. For those of you who were not with us last year, after the lens of the military to examine the time after the confederate surrender as an expansion of wartime. The last several years, dr. Inns has been very active broadening public understanding of the reconstruction era. Coedited a new essay collection the world the civil which seeks to redefine the United States. Are also look at sites that appropriate for memorializing reconstruction. , dr. Lowe,eaker earned ma and phd degrees from the university of washington seattle. She served as the Program Manager for the underground Railroad Freedom program, which places Minority College students from across the country and paid summer internships with parks and program offices, state Historic Preservation offices, local and state governments, and private organizations. Her academic fields of inte
He has also had the joy to experience today. I think he is eager to go back south of the james. Emmanuel grew up in did what he county. Dinwiddie county, so petersburg was home for him. Volunteering at the Petersburg National battlefield where he became a seasonal, worked there for a number of years and became a permanent historian. He has beenm there 14 years sharing this story which has largely been forgotten. The stories of the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. Fortunately, emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront and is here to talk about one of the other enduring legacies of the war, the Freedmens Bureau. The question, what is going to happen with all these emancipated slaves . The Freedmens Bureau was an attempt to deal with that. It was a very complicated answer. Emmanuel dabney, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] emmanuel i am not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. It seems like whenever you leave richmond,