Veterans day 2014, the nation salutes those who serve our country. Thank so you much for joining us on this veterans day. Im mike hydeck. The gates are now open on the National Mall for the concert for valor. Star studded salute promises to be starspangled special tribute to our nations veterans and Nikki Burdine is down on the mall where the stage is just about finished. Nikki . Reporter yeah, guys. The concert is for the growing to start for several hours, but there are a lot of fans here. In fact, rehearsals just start add few minutes ago. Dave groal just wrapped up practicing. All our heroes as they sacrifice so much for us. There are a few people up there in the v. I. P. Section right there in front of the stage behind me. Most of those are veterans and their families. But general admission opened up a couple of hours ago and those are the real fans. Those guys have been there for a couple of hours. Theyve been waiting in line. They got here about 10 00, maybe even before. Thats n
Laser pointers, fireworks, glass, balloons, pepper spray, weapons of any kind. You also cannot bring the folding tables, tents or chairs. Now for what you should bring. The food. There will be small hot dog stands and pretzel stands but if youre going to be here all day, you might want to bring at least one meal or a extra snack. You also want to bring something to keep you warm because it is going to be a little chilly out here. Hopefully it will warm up later on today but tonight you should at least bring gloves, something to keep you warm while youre sitting around enjoying the music, maybe a blanket to sit on but you cant camp out here so hopefully you wont see anybody getting in early and trying to camp out because that will not be allowed. Of course its all in the name of security. We have a list of all these things on our website wusa9. Com for what you should and should not bring just in case you want to double check and make sure youre playing by the rules. Of course its all t
Tactics and systs. Joining meme today twtwo analysts workingg on optptions to help develop a key strategy. Bob isith the center for strategic and budgetary assessment. Welcome back. Full disclosure i know i have participated in some of the discussions you guys are going about doing the serious work here. Talk to us a little bit about the complexity city about the specific sets s of challengeges that we face. Folks are being g more open about some of the things we are facing specifically in our abilility to operarate around e world. Bob hes tryiying to o restore u. S. Convtion protectionn capability, and we essentially face for core problems. Ports and airfields are increasingly vulnerable to attack, and we rely on those bases to project power. Second is surface combatants including aircraft carriers, are increasingly subject to being tracked and targeted an extensive rangeses. Third, network and defenses make it difficult for nonstetealth aircraft to operate, and forth spac is no longe
The coldest night of the winter and were seeing snow in western maryland. Flurries in the washington area. Hello, everybody. Im bruce johnson. Thanks for joining us this saturday night. Temperatures dropping, snow falling across the region tonight. Just how cold is it going to be and what with the snow what about the snow . Lets go to erica grow. The good news the know is not going to accumulate anywhere near the d. C. Metro area but we do have a few flakes falling you can see on our radar loom. There they are in blue. You can see a little bit of blue near charlottesville indicating some rain showers. But the snow flurries are indicated in blue there. As i mentioned before, no accumulating snow for us in the d. C. Metro area. I saw the flurries, though, as i was heading wack in after i had dinner this evening. 35 degrees is your current temperature in d. C. 32 restton, germantown, reston. When you factor in the winds is when we really start to feel it. Its 20 with the windchill in lees
Pleasant. Smoke filled the skies, filling up the south bay with nasty smell of burning metal, keeping some people from getting home. Im trying to get down the street to my boat, thats where i live. But the fire is preventing anybody to access it. Reporter started around noon today. A recycling center that crushes cars and appliances, sends the scrap metal mostly to china. And its not the companys first fire. It seems to be happening like once a year. It goes up in smoke and flames and that it is just a big smell of wonderful fumes. One of the largest in the bay area. A few years ago epa found toxins like mercury and lead seeping from sims into the bay. But today its not a water issue. The problem is in the air well all smoke is harmful. You dont want to breathe any smoke whether or not it is barbecue smoke. Its an industrialized operation here. So yeah, thats why the shelter in place was ordered. Reporter wind carried the smoke to the the southwest over 101. And right over the mobile h