They were a love story if one ever was and absolutely devoted to each other. Elizabeth monroe had a very welldeveloped sense of style and image, and her jewelry is a reflection of that. This is a woman who knew how to carry herself with great elegance. She always warranted your respect. It was one of the most splendid white houses that ever existed. It was called the era of good feeling. This is a woman who spoke french, and my goodness, what she could talk about. Elizabeth was a very great beauty, described in one letter as a rose petal beauty, but mrs. Monroe received very seldom anything at the white house. She was a recluse, absolutely hated it. Hospitality, decorum, dignity, civility those are the civility, those are the words that come to mind. Elizabeth monroe served as first lady for her husband james monroe from 1817 to 1825, during a time known as the era of good feelings. Coming up, well explore her life and what were not always happy times inside the white house for this co
Steelers game kicking off at 8 25. Weather by then should be much better than what well potentially see this afternoon. Quiet now but doppler still picking up quite a bit of activity in kentucky about to move into West Virginia, southern ohio as well. Well watch this area. I think this is going to have a tough time holding together. The front itself daytime heating will generate some new storms. Currently the upper 60s and low 70s just about everywhere with a few mid60s out toward orange and harrisonburg. And futurecast, this is the timetable here. Lunch time quiet. We get into the start to pop a couple of showers 1 00, 3 00. By 3 00, 4 00, looks like the best chances will be south of washington but some of these storms here by 7 00 p. M. Could be strong to locally severe down in senior maryland, colonial beach, fredricksburg. Looks like up in baltimore by 7 00 or so most of that activity will have left. So thats good news. Andrea and nick . Thank you, howard. Heres whats in the news r
A chance of wind damage. Brief heavy downpours as they move on through. No problems weatherwise for the morning commute. Wear your short sleeves. Waiting for the bus, 70 between now and 8 00. Between 8 00 and 10 00, upper 70s to near 80 with steamy humidity. Have an umbrella for the afternoon showers coming through. A look at the hourbyhour heating as the day progresses. Melissa checking on the thursday morning commute. If youre hopping on 95 northbound, youre pretty good until you make your way through triangle. Slow approaching woodbridge. Inner loop and outer loop just fine. Just as you pass 66, fairfax, slow. It opens back up again. Prince georges county side of the roadway looking good. Pennsylvania avenue, everything rolling along. A live camera. New hampshire avenue at washington circle. The west bound of the circle is still close as this tow truck tries to get two vehicles out of the way. Remember to follow u us first4traffic. 6 02. 13 years ago our his chand in those 9 11 atta
Fears of mud slooitds right now. High speed drama, a couple ordered from their car after a high speed chase on the highway. Police using spikes to stop them. What happened when they realized she was racing to have a baby. And we have a feeling this could be one of the biggest oscar nights yet. Neil Patrick Harris is hosting the big night. What hes saying about the ultimate check off his bucket list. Good morning, america. And good morning, america. How about this neil Patrick Harris . As you know, hes killed the tonys and the emmys. Here come the oscars. There too. And starting with the ebola crisis. And amber vinson is battling the deadly disease this morning. Big questions about the commercial flight she was allowed on just before she went into the hospital. She was allowed on that flight with an elevated temperature, calling the cdc beforehand. That is the frontier jet she flew on. Its grounded now. It flew five more times after she was on it. The flight crew told not to come to wor
If you remember nothing that i said tonight, then you probably had too much to drink. [laughter] if you remember one thing that i said tonight, let it be this. As dire as things look right now, i am profoundly optimistic. We have seen things look dire before. I am optimistic for three simple reasons. Number one, we are right. Freedom works. [applause] there is a very simple dynamic, conservatives win when we effectively articulate what it is we believe. This is fundamentally a center right nation. Liberals win when they effectively off the skate obduscate what they believe. Their policies do not work and all we have to do is speak the truth. Secondly, there is a new generation of leaders stepping forward in washington. New, young at leaders, people like rand paul and marco rubio and mike lee and kelly ayotte. [applause] you know what is incredible . Five years ago, not one of them was in office. You have to go back to after world war ii to see an instance where the generation of leader