Democracy. Next, the first public hearing for the impeachment inquiry into president by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee led by kentucky representative james palmer meant for nearly six hours House Republicans at the inquiry is focused on whether biden was involved in or benefited from his familys foreign business dealings. [background noises] [background noises] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] which members are waving . [background noises] a committee on oversight and accountability will come to order. I want to welcome everyone here today. Without objection the chair may declare a racist at any time. The first order of business is to welcome the return of eight eightmember to the committee. We went to welcome from michigan to the committee congresswoman has been a member of the house. [applause] since 2019. Before that she served 15 years the Michigan House of representatives but she is a familiar face to this committee as she spent her first two t
As the day goes on. Heres the temperatures its cold to start out. 15 degrees in trenton. 18 in philadelphia. 18 in reading, 16 in wilmington, 18 in millville. 18 degrees in cape may. The windchills even though the winds are not super Strong Enough to get the windchills making it feel like the sing digits, bundle up for a five degree windchill in philadelphia. 4 in trenton. 1 in allentown, 5 in wilmington and 5 in millville. As we go through the day, its going to be a chilly one. Not as cold as yesterday, yesterdays high, 27. It felt worst with the strong blustery winds. 31 by 1 00 p. M. Im expecting a high of 32 at 3 00 p. M. You can see how the clouds get thicker as we go through the day. The windchills will be a factor for those of you doing outdoor volunteer activities. You want to bundle up. It will feel like the teens at noon, there are the 8 to 16mile an hour. Were track a clipper system coming at us tomorrow with a little bit of light snow not heavy accumulations, but being in t
Parks service. Were here to talk about the service at its history and also learn more about the special house and people who lived here and how its being preserved by the National Parks service. Were joined by robert stanton. Biez, the former site manager here at arlington house. Obviously a park service employee. Hes also oversees a year long renovation of the estate. Let me start with the story of how the National Park service began. As the National Park service was authorized by an act of congress, signed into law by president woodrow wilson, august 25, 1916. There we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park service today. And that legislation came about through the stellar efforts of many conservationists and civil leaders throughout the country. Was it at all controversial at the time it was signed into law . It was in the sense there was sort of a misunderstanding in terms of some of the constraints that may be imposed by having one federal agency to ad minister our N
Services most visited historic home, arlington house, the robert e. Lee memorial at arlingt Arlington Cemetery. Join us with our phone calls as we talk with the former arlington site house manager who will oversea the yearlong restoration of the mansion, slave quarters and grounds. Today the 100 anniversary of the National Park service live from arlington house at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Coming up this weekend on American History tv on cspan3. The Abraham Lincoln president ial Library Foundation published a book of musings by public figures and ordinary americans celebrating or responding to lincolns gettysburg address. Editor of gettysburg replies, the world responds to Abraham Lincolns gettyburgs address reads passages from the book. His presence still resonates from the words hes written and the artifacts and documents that he has left behind for our prosperity. He was a simple yet deeply complex man who looked at complex issue plainly and purely. He acc
If you can call 90 degrees i think it is just hard to tell. I had to take my son to soccer and gosh, it was just brutal out there. We do have some showers this morning. Most of mecklenburg county, virginia seeing a few showers. That stretches down into vance and warren counties. Not quite over to Roanoke Rapids but it is lily there in about 45 minutes. A tiny little band getting ready to move into orange county. Well be watching that over the next couple of hours as we see here on fox 50. 76 in cary and 75 in wake forest. Town by town, 75 in rocky mount. It is warm, muggy when you step out the door. That will be the case all weekend. Next week, especially by tuesday morning, you will notice a real difference. 70s, very sticky. Well see a high of 90 this afternoon. A good chance of scattered thunderstorms. That will help to hold our temperatures down a little closer to normal through the weekend but some of the storms could produce some heavy rain. Brian is here with a look at the road