Lies in state. The civil rights icon, the first africanamerican lawmaker to in history to lie and stay there. Kelli meyer has the story. All members rise for a moment of silent, a somber start to the week as lawmakers pay respects to one of their own 80 yearold georgia congressman john lewis who spent much of his life fighting for racial equality died friday after a 6 month battle with pancreatic cancer. He was the last survivor of the big 6 civil rights leaders of the 1960s i first met john norris in 1968 in Atlanta Georgia. At the funeral of doctor Martin Luther king junior lawmakers like North Carolina democrat ek butterfield and Georgia Republican buddy carter. Praise lewis says the moral compass of congress is certainly a great loss. The state of georgia, but also to the nation voters first elected louis to represent his Atlanta Georgia district in 1986 Georgia Republican congressman doug collins was just an intern, we ended a run same elevator, almost every morning together. He l
Theater roosevelt said i put the weight he tried his best to form a regiment. It was just the force of will to get him to that spot where he created the iconic moment in 1898. He was not regular army he was volunteer. Did he operate independently . Yes to the chagrin of Commanding Officers he certainly have an independent spirit in his own way of doing things and he did have a Commanding Officer and he was part of the fifth corps. They did have their marching orders as to what their role was going to be. He took on additional roles and that charge at San Juan Hill a lot of the credit for that does go to colonel roosevelt. Where is san juan hell. Just on the east of santiago. And why was a militarily significant. The reason for his significance was one of the spanish fleet that was holed up in the harbor in santiago. The movie wanted to force thoughtfully out of the they thought the best way to do that was to send a land force to take santiago once he was taken. The fleet in the harbor
Public eye. Of the nightyearold canceling his public schedule after the summer. Well have the very latest from lon london. Gets the shot. Scores and later, de ja vu all over again. The caps failing to capitalize on the Sidney Crosby less penguins. Now, theyre on the verge of elimination again on home ice. Well have the highlights from game five. Good day at 9a starts now. That appears to be the case. With the caps im hoping not. Its not over until its o over. Its not over yet, right. I dont mean to be tough. Can they pull it off. Of course they can. Come on. Hope springs eternal. One game season. Im just saying. They still got you got to play the game. You play to within the game. Its not over yet. You got to remain optimistic. What happened yesterday to you while i was im sorry, could you introduce yourself. Im a Glass Half Full kind of guy. Since when. Starting today . All this negativity is bringing me down. Lets go ahead with the show. Good day d. C. I dont know who this guy is com
Fairfax counties have been affected by the shooting and now search for the suspect. We know that the victim is a teenager who was shot at least two times were told. He was shot at least two times and he was taken by ambulance to a local hospital. We do not know his condition. It happened around 8 30 this morning outside these townhouses which are east of sterling boulevard on east cornell avenue. Multiple shots were fired. The Sheriffs Department says they are searching for two to three suspects who fled the scene. Its a price because its the first time that has i see this happened in here in this neighborhood ive been here for like four years and this is the first time. So its kind of scary. Reporter neighbors are definitely nervous this morning as these suspects are on the loose, in Loudoun County six schools were on lockout which means no one with come in but can come in but its a Normal School day inside. Five Elementary Schools in loudoun were on that lockout code. Forest grove, g
This bridge. Its pointless in my opinion. There were 63 students involved in this protest according to an account called valley shut down. They used the hashtag, shut it down and reclaim mlk. They designed what they wanted their protest to be about. At this point were not seeing anymore traffic. The protest has been off the bridge. Were waiting to hear from the chp to see how many arrest there were. Live on san mateo bridge. It looked like the protestors had a flag. Well see what that was about. Bart station was closed down. Bart trains were running before 5 00, but the holdup caused a headache for hundreds of warrior fans getting out of ore cal arena. People took pictures of the back up. They were mixed with the commuters. This was the combination of a protest that started earlier today. Demonstrators say theyre taking a stand against poverty and violence. This is what the crowd looked like at the fruit veil bart station where officer grant was killed in 2009. They were marched to rec