The 13th secretary of the smithsonian institution, dr. David gordon. [applause] and the first lady of that United States, mrs. Melania t rump. [applause] john gray good morning and welcome. I am john gray. And i have the privilege of being your director of your National Museum of American History. We are so honored to extend a very special welcome to first lady trump. It is a thrill to have you with us, and we are so privileged to have this donation ceremony in our flag hall. The secretary of the smithsonian, dr. David gordon, and the designer of the dress, mr. Diaz. To our board chair, ambassador nicholas townsman many members , of our board who are with us, and to all of our distinguished guests, we welcome you and thank you for your support. Millions of americans, and so many other visitors from every corner of the world, walk through our first ladies gallery galleries each year. They experience not only the importance, grandeur, and elegance of the first ladies, but they reflect on
To survive. The car involved has an uber sticker on it but it is unclear if an uber driver was actually involved. Two suspects are still on the loose. Police have not released a description. We will continue to follow the story and bring you any developments in this broadcast or on our website, nbcbayarea. Com. More breaking news tonight, a deadly crash forcing a section of a highway to close in both directions in san mateo county. It happened just before 9 00 on highway 92 a quarter mile west of 280. Both directions of 92 are closed as investigators try to find out what happened. Uc berkley students are on alert tonight after police say someone sexually assaulted a student on a nearby hiking trail. It happened yesterday on the upper fire trail. Now students say theyre taking precautions and going with strength in numbers. Nbc bay area sevio cantana. Reporter some students say they will be hiking on a poplar trail in pairs or groups after the campuswide alert of an attempted sexual ass
Idea it was about to happen. We have the letter he sent to his former fbi colleague. Less than 24 hours later the president welcomed in the Russian Foreign minister into the oval office. Abc 7 news learned as many will find no surprise it was the president himself that set this in motion. Washington post reporting mr. Trump would not back his claim that was formerly wire tapd. The day after the president decided to fire the man in charge of the investigation in the meddling in the presidency. Comey was leading the investigation in whether the Trump Campaign colorado younclu the russians, serious offense was it getting it close to home. The white house timing impeopleable. The president maintains this. He wasnt doing a good job very simply. The white house now saying the president watched comeys testimony on tv last week and went from questioning comey to feeling, quote, strongly inclined to remove him. Early monday afternoon the president met with the attorney general and deputy genera
Security. Outside a pizza place here at third and massachusetts. Wise guy pizza there are embracing for the good and the bad of all of this. They are expecting 1,500 customers each day on friday, and saturday. That is twice their normal lunch and dinner. Besides the fact they have the business situation, they have employees trying to get to work because of all the road closures. They also have food deliveries. They have to have the food delivered in the areas around this neighborhood by wednesday. They dont have thousands of workers downtown because many offices are closed but they will have thousands of people at the festivities for the inaugural and the protest the next day. We have street closures and were trapped. We cant drive in the parking lot. Deliveries asked to get deliveries on wednesday. Richard so with all of those headaches how are the businesses going to cope . We will help answer that coming up at 6 00. Reporting live at richard reeve, abc7 news. Alison thank you. The p
So picturesque. A little lost but im trying to find a different corner to look at. Frustrating for people like john paul who first trip to d. C. Ran into roadblock. Theres so much fencing and channelling people, i want to see stuff and im not seeing anything. Im just seeing preparations. Whats irritating right now maybe down right necessary on friday. Nearly 900,000 people are expected to attend. About 30 organizations including the secret service will be working together. 28,000 security personnel, including about 3,000 Police Officers from around the country. The d. C. National guard will be activated and you could see some blimps in the air to counter the threat of drones. Not to mention the protesters, about 99 different groups have applied for protest permits. Whatever their reason for coming hundreds of thousands of people will be here. Its necessary. Controlling, i dont know i think i knew the inauguration was this week so i was like its going to be busy. I wanted to be here to