Presidency,he thomas talks about the architectural trends that influenced the design of George Washingtons mount vernon estate. He is director of architecture at washingtons Virginia Home and has overseen the restoration of several prominent rooms, including the recently updated blue room. This program is part of a mount vernon symposium focusing on the places where washington lived and visited. It is 50 minutes. It is my pleasure to introduce my colleague, Thomas Reinhardt who joined Mount Vernons staff in 2013. In that capacity, he provides dynamic leadership for the ongoing preservation of the estates 36 originally constructed buildings. Since his arrival, i have had the privilege of working with tom to develop a partnership between preservation and curatorial staff. We have completed several mansion room products including andblue room in 2014 currently underway, the front parlor hopefully to open up next year. He has also led critically important projects, stabilized the and the 1
Focus can now go back to security and enjoying a safe holiday, which is what we saw during the parade today. Reporter cheers from the crowd came as the National Independence day parade and old glory made her way down constitution avenue. Hundreds of people not letting the rains rain jackets and umbrellas. Reporter or the possibility of a threat on the nations capitol ruin their Independence Day celebrations. Im not worried about it. We got the best police and Security Force in the world right here, so im not worried about it at all. Its great so far really. Its nice to see everybody out here celebrating america, you know, on the 239th birthday. Its just great. Reporter the motorcycles were a part of the parade and also a part of the increased security we saw on the National Mall saturday. We even spotted metropolitan police chief kathy lanier driving up and down the route. We are constantly monitoring and constantly making checks of all of our areas on a regular and rotating basis. We
Still no word about what may have made the sound which was interpreted as gunfire. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Kimberly very curious too after the navy yard last week. While police did not find evidence of a shooting this time either, thousands were left in a lockdown for two hours. Rebecca cooper spoke with workers about the moments they had to take cover. Very scary moments. Rebecca that is right. Now you can see over my shoulder at the entrance two the main entrance to Walter Reed National military Medical Center. This is back to normal now. For several hours the people inside the facility only knew police were searching for a possibly active shooter. Denise moore was at a Subway Sandwich shop inside Walter Reed Hospital when word went out about a possible gunman and take shelter immediately. As long as i got out of my life i would have stayed all day. Rebecca employees, patients and visitors we spoke to after the allclear went out this afternoon stayed throughout th
His organization, the jerod foundation, make news back in april went executive director Russell Taylor was arrested on charges for possessing and producing child toward child corn. Vogel said the foundation severed all ties with taylor after that arrested were learning new information about the man accused of killing a passenger on a metro train on the fourth of july. Jasper spires is due in court less than an hour from now. Brianne carter is live in northwest with the Court Arguments just released and what they could mean for todays hearing. Brianne new information coming out of this Court Documents to it we have been poring over these documents. Just about one hour or so before that 1 00 docket gets underway where we expect jasper spires will make a Court Appearance here at tc superior court. Spires is facing a murder charge after allegedly stabbing Kevin Sutherland on a metro train on july 4. According to these Court Documents again, we have been pouring over them, sutherland has Sh
Out. Someone reported hearing gunshots inside building one. Thats the iconic building for this facility with the tower. Now, everyone on the ground of the sprawling campus was ordered to shelter in place and teams from the military began a systemic search of building one, assisted by some Montgomery County police teams as well. Now, all 20 stories had to be searched. As you might imagine that did not happen quickly. It took almost four hours for shermgt in place to be the allclear being given. It turned out to be nothing, but no one is criticizing the person who made the call, as we hear from Montgomery County Police Captain paul starks. Given the times we live in and this facility we wanted to ensure that while we didnt have any indication at the time, except for the call, we want to be able to set up a perimeter and make things safe for the thousands of people on this campus. Reporter now, one of the things that did happen is all nonemergency applications and nonemergency appointment