I first took my seat in the ancient bodin the spring of 1769. I must tell you, your excellency, you were already a legend in my family when i was a young boy. My father, peter jefferson, spoke very highly of you. He as you well know was a surveyor commissioned by the western authority surveying lintz of virginia and beyond. Lands of virginia and beyond. He was a young major. I believe you both sat together in the Virginia House of burgesss, just before he passed away. He passed away in 1757. When i came to the house 12 years later, i had already known of you as a boy that attended the old World College in williamsburg, william and mary and george whiff and practicing law in williamsburg. In fact, general, i do not know whether you remember, but when i was a young man, a good 25 years of age, i had already become a de devote of theater and never missed an opportunity when virginia burg performed in the theater and i believe mrs. Campbell was quite the destiny for you. You enjoyed her oc
To dale city and waldorf, another batch of flurries there. And temperatures are above freezing. The flurries that are falling inging are meltings. Were in the mid to upper 30s. Around the bay upper 30s. Off to the west Shenandoah Valley in the upper 30s. Up near the pennsylvania border in north Frederick County at 28 degrees. Theres a view from the storm team 4 tower cam this morning. Well have dry pavement. Cold morning. Certainly feeling like winter not spring. And a chilly afternoon with temperatures way below the afternoon high. We have some rain chances moving in later this week. Your tuesday headlines coming up next weather and traffic on the 1s at 5 11. Your walk to work forecast. Chuck bell joins us live. Good morning, tom. Want to update you on the crash outer loop just before coalsville road its cleared out of the way. No more lanes blocked. No more problems there. Rock creek parkway southbound getting reports that some of the lanes there are reopening after that earlier cras
Many times america will hear the Unemployment Rate go from seven percent to 6. 7 and would view as the country going in the right direction in regard to job creation and Economic Growth. But would you agree that actually the reduction in the Unemployment Rate is not an indicator of strong job growth like many of americans may think . I will unpack things a little bit. The decline in the unemployment , is somewhere around two thirds due to the decline in labor force participation. And about one third to job creation. Speaking, the employment and population ratio has essentially stayed about the same since late 2009. So that is problematic. But we have two different forces working on employment population. One is the demographic changes that would tend to depress participation just as baby boomers like myself age, the population genuinely getting older. We are getting into times we are more heavily weighted to parts of the parts of the occupation that participate less. Compensate for thi