Day singalong for the 200th anniversary of of our starspangled banner. [applause] thats right. 200 years ago this year, Francis Scott key wrote the words to a poem to defense of forth mchenry and set it to a british tune and together, they formed our national anthem, the star spangled banner. Here, we explore americas history through collections, research, and public outreach. We help people understand the past, to and to shape a more humane future. And we are hoping our program will be able to do all of that by bringing the nation together. We are not just bringing people together here in washington, d. C. On the National Mall, but also all over our country and indeed, world. Id like to send a special welcome to our streaming audience who is watching us via Youtube Ustream and welcome espn, welcome all of you. It is very important that our conductors are wellknown for bringing along singers from all over the world with his virtual choir projects. I would like you all to join me in tha
photographer remiochlik. colvin was a frequent voice here, reporting on anderson cooper 360 just last night. reporter: every civilian house on the street was hit. this is kind of a poor, popular neighborhood. the top building of the floor i m in the top floor of the building i m in was toemt totally destroyed. free syrian army, they have rocket propelled grenades, but they don t have a base. arwa, it s chilling when you hear her voice and you realize that was someone alive yesterday talking about the dangers, experience and saying this is one of the most dangerous assignments she has ever covered. tell us about her, i know you guys worked together and what it is like to be on the ground there. reporter: she was so fiercely passionate about what was happening inside s syria. she was determined to do whatever was going to take to continue shining a spotlight on the atrosities there. for someone as seasoned as she is, to say that this is some of the worst violence she
cross be allowed t remove their body. marie colvin, the other was prize winning french photographer remiochlik. colvin was a frequent voice here, reporting on anderson cooper 360 just last night. reporter: every civilian house on the street was hit. this is kind of a poor, popular neighborhood. the top building of the floor i m in the top floor of the building i m in was toemt totally destroyed. free syrian army, they have rocket propelled grenades, but they don t have a base. arwa, it s chilling when you hear her voice and you realize that was someone alive yesterday talking about the dangers, experience and saying this is one of the most dangerous assignments she has ever covered. tell us about her, i know you guys worked together and what it is like to be on the ground there. reporter: she was so fiercely passionate about what was happening inside s syria. she was determined to do whatever was going to take to continue shining a spotlight on the atrosities there.
veronica johnson has the latest from storm center 4. veronica? thanks, guys. it s looking better for the outer banks of north carolina, but we re not completely convinced this is a storm system that s going to stay well off the coast as it moves past to the north for us. here is the latest on hurricane irene. you can see it is a sizeable storm, and it s spent a lot of today just lashing the bahamas, lashing it with very heavy rape and winds at around 115 miles per hour. it s got a pretty good eye on that system, too. it s moving to the northwest at 11 miles per hour. as a category 3. watch the fan forecast on this track. because the whole fan forecast stays off the coast florida. that s good for them. the actual center of the storm, off the coast. there could be a little bit of change in that movement. so we re going to be watching this very closely. but at least for the outer banks, i think the worst of it would be coming up through their way sometime very early sunday mor
bill will not bring in enough new people to offset the higher costs to them of covering preexisting conditions and the new standards and regulations they ll have to meet. so they already are critical that not enough people are covered. the governor said the administration was claiming that everybody will be covered. that s not the case. the congressional budget office has said there will be millions of people living in the united states who won t be covered. some will be people not here legally. but if already we re having the insurance companies say that we re not going to expand the pool large enough to share the cost, and if you take away the individual mandate, that will make it that much worse. let s turn to 2010 politics and parse a little of what the governor said. he was critical of the positioning of his own party members here in washington on the med care debate we just went through. and talks about the experience from the a governor s experience. what does that m