That was the epicenter of the major earthquake in august of 2011 that caused widespread damage. Tonights quake showed no major damage. The other story, Robert Griffin iiis long recovery begins hours of their he had surgery to repair two ligaments. The controversy remains a big headline as does when he will return to the football field. Tim brant, who has called nfl and College Football games for 30 years is live to lead our rgiii coverage. The criticism is reaching a crescendo against Mike Shanahan and the washington redskins. It was the worst Case Scenario for the washington redskins. It lasted 5. 5 hours. They repaired the lateral ligament and the aclu. Acl. This is the second time rgiiis knee has been reconstructed. The integrity had been compromised in the longevity somewhat diminished. When can you expect him back . That also is controversial. The first sixeight weeks of recovery are critical. The redskins says he could be back in the sixeight months. That is very optimistic after
Case. He is accused of killing 12 people and injuring 70 others inside that Movie Theater in colorado last summer. This comes as a student in california haskell is recovering from critical injuries after he was shot at school. A gunman shot him at a high school in california, 120 miles outside of los angeles. Detectives say the teacher and another staff member were able to convince the government to put down his gun before anyone else was hurt. Both shootings are fueling the debate over gun rights in america tonight. People appear far apart on this issue following a show down in the white house. This comes after the nra is getting a host of support. Autria godfrey is live. What little hope there might have been that vicepresident biden and leaders with the nra could come to some sort of agreement on adequate gun control seem to be a pipe dream. Leaders of the nra will continue to push the second amendment. They do so with an army of 4. 2 Million People behind them now. Vice President J
[captioning made possie by cbyifornia farm bureau federation] coming up on California Country, meet a farming family finding a way to give back to their community. Then find out why this crop is coming out of the dark literally. Next, its turkey time. Learn how to make a new recipe with the holiday favorite. And travel to one of the most unique farmers markets in the stata. Its all ahead, and it starts now. You would think being around watermelons all day, you might get sick of eating the sometimes messy snack, but not for farmer dan van groningen. Thats good. Thats crispy. Its sweet. Its wet. Its everything a watermelon should be. But then again, hes had a lot of practice eating watermelons at his family farm in ripon. For more than 70 years now, theyve been growing the picnic favorite and have loved every minute of it, seeds and all. 1939, we started growin watermelons the first time. My grandfather did, and, uh, my father was young then, and he would do the harvesting. They would, u
Is that an urban legend, or is well, thethe thumping is after youveyouve picked the watermelon in the store. Lets say you assume all the watermelons are ripe in the store. Mmhmm. Every one in th bin or on the shelf are ripe. Then you wanna start feeling them. If they have a good sound to em, it means that theyre not overripe, when they have a a flat sound, uh, doesnt have a good ring to it. This has got a nice ring to it. If its got a flat sound, its either overripe, or maybe it has a hollow heart. After the watermelons leave the field, they are taken here to the packing shed, where they are sorted and even polished up a bit. There are now several generations of Van Groningens working together at the farm, including dans 86yearold dad. In recent years, the family has diversified the farm and has 4,500 acres in production of a variety of crops, so now when the sun goes down on the melon harvest, work just begins on the other big crop, sweet corn. Yeah, we like to do it at night, uh, bec
Some of the accumulating snows were but the air was so dry the moisture didnt have a chance to bother us all that much and thats a good thing. A few flurries and snow showers this morning coming out of pennsylvania. In Frederick County and these have been drifting and even into Prince Georges County and Anne Arundel County a little bit but now its a relatively quiet time. And i dont think these flurries and snow showers will be around for about a couple of hours. Oakland down to 18. Its 34 in luray. 32 winchester with 36 and the Patuxent River naval air station. A quick look at the winds gusting 33 now at winchester. 24 here in town and 30 in hagerstown. Lets go over to Monika Samtani. All right. 6 00 a. M. Friday. That means volume that means slowdowns. Now everyone is heading out the door so if you were out the door at 5 00 hour youre fine. Right now youre definitely going to see a bit of volume even though its friday morning. On the outer loop of the beltway. For example, you got it