Boulevard that shut down in both directions. Your alternate will be lee highway to work your way to the beltway. 270 old hundred road everything flowing fine here. Southbound no problems. Same thing northbound. No issues there either. 66 into and out of town 95 into and out of town looking quite good. 95 northbound and southbound and maryland and bw parkway rolling along quite well. Back at 5 11. Turning now to the weather. Take a live look outside now. 48 degrees. A look at the capital wheel at national harbor. A pretty scene. Not too shall bey way to start. I can see the nearly calm waters of the potomac in the live view. The final day of march the winds will be picking up a bit. Right now its calm and quiet and dry pavement. Chilly morning and wet afternoon. That pavement will be wet most of the region later this afternoon. A really with aer pattern moves in later this week. Right now a bit of a chill in the area. Our temperatures are hovering in the 30s across parts of maryland and
Huskins for say apologize to Denise Huskins for saying it was a hoax. This started march 23 when Denise Huskins boyfriend called police that she was kidnapped. Two days later she showed up unharmed. Why would they put them out . Reporter they have secured attorneys. Residents dont know what to believe. We want to know who are the criminals. That is it. We want to see the end of the story. Reporter police are staying quiet all day long and we have been hearing some officers are laughing about the claims, whatever happened here, this case is now an fbi cyberinvestigation. Knack to you. Thank you. Thank you. The governor of indiana wants to fix the religious freedom act to clarify it doesnt allow businesses to discriminate. And there was no greater criticism than a headline today, it said fix this now. In white letters. They said indianas reputation is now at stake. The back lash is growing as indianapolis will be hosting the ncaa final four. What lawmakers in indiana are likely to do abo
Place. The first rounds of finger pointing over the federal website took place. They say full tests of the website should have been carried out months i have not advance but began two weeks before the rollout. They blame government officials for making last minute changes just prior to launching the site. Finally, they say the administration did not allow window shopping on the site, increasing the volume of traffic that caused registration glitches. The experts often took a back seat to the republicans and democrats asking the questions. So you didnt test it prior to october 1 . No,ness. When House Committee members grilled the contractors about the sites technical problems they heard the problems start at the front door. Consumers must pass through this front door. Unfortunately, the eidm created a bottleneck keeping the vast majority of consumers from entering. The contractors were not prepared for the bottleneck that occurred when thousands tried to log on. Since then. Cms, cgi and
The direction alone doesnt tell us much about what his objective is here but poncho pass does tell us something. This is the view that pike would have from his Christmas Day camp and for several days before and after. Poncho pass is a low spot in the mountains a little bit to the southwest of the city of saliva and if pike looked south he would have found it very inviting place to cross the mountains. His mission is to get to santa fe. This is as good a place as any to try and do it. If he stands in the same spot and looks to the left he is going to see the high peaks of the northern end of the Crystal Mountains and he will realize if i want to cross its never going to get any better than this so he doesnt. He continues downstream which is exactly the behavior somebody who believed he was on the red river and intending to head home. Decides to cross this andres there would be two men behind on the arkansas. The horses are shot in the plan is to leave a couple of men behind but the hors
Next, astoria by author john jacob. This an is hour and 14 minutes. Thank you powells books and thank you for being here. Normally i have a more formal presentation. I have a reading i show at readings. But tonight is a special night so i am going to do something different. And i want to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i will do some readings. It is special we are at powells books, we are in oregon, astoria is nearby and we are also here with cspan so we have a national and oregon audience. I will tell stories and you may know some of them and may not some of the others. But i will start with how i came to this story. And actually, what is surprising about it is how this story was verywell known in its day. In 1836, when Washington Irving was commissioned by john John Jacob Astor to write these, irvings book also called astoria was a best seller in 1926. They have been forgotten now. I think some of you know about them. But in the National Consciousness they are largely