Tell us about your students. They come from very rural areas. We are very on the edge of sumter county, kind of shaped like the panhandle. We are completely away from the nearest city. K8. Ve about 400 kids grow,ds are determined to determined to low. Personalities, trying to make their communities a better place. Your focus is South Carolina state history. What prompted you to be a teacher fellow . Zach i came to cspans educator conference a few years ago. It was right after my first year of teaching, and it was hard for my students to realize of what happens in washington because so many of them have not ever left sumter county. Or you know theres a field trip year whereast school most of the kids it was the first time they had ever even been to a zoo. That conference kind of planted the seed of using cspans footage and clips in my classroom to show them whats happening in washington and why its so important. Over the last couple of years, ive made it a point to use those primary sou
Degrees. By 7 00 p. M. Low 90s but its feeling close to 100 when you factor in the mugginess. Most of us are dryt there. I cant rule out a few isolated showers and thunderstorms, in especially northern virginia. Again, most of us are dry. Everybody is warm. That should say 81 at 11 00 p. M. , but it will feel more like 91 at 11 00 p. M. When you factor in the humidity. Heres the latest check of storm team 4ar rad the d. C. Metro area is looking dry. Back to the west, showers into washington county,he panhandle of West Virginia and out into lualay. This is about the dangerous heat. More on how hot it will feel as the week wears on coming up in my fl forecast right around 4 20. Thanks, amelia. Folks, as those temperatures rise well be on weather alert later this week, and the best h thing toe with you, our nbc washington app. That or a fan. Can you make weather your home page there and getts alerent right to your phone at any time. Pat . Its been one year since a 10yearold girl sitting o
Custody. President obama was in fact inside the white house at the time having just returned from Arlington Cemetery for the memorial day ceremony. Police are hoping a witness may come forward after a deadly shooting at a Shopping Center in woodbridge, virginia. Police got calls for shots fired in a parking lot. When officers got there, they found shell casings and no victim. Friends of the victim drove him to the hospital where he died. Someone saw something. When we arrived, a lot of people scattered. What we need is those people to come forward and give us that information that they know. Investigators say that shooting happened as a bar was letting out. Only on 4 tonight. A maryland state trooper hurt in a bad accident on new years eve back on the job. The trooper himself says he survived the crash on i95. The trooper is actually eager to get back on the helping a couple whose car was stranded here on the side of i95. He says cars were zipping past him at 70, 80 miles an hour while
Story of one man who blade dead in order to stay alive. Reporter the memorial outside the Regional Medical center has been growing here for the survivors of the pulse nightclub. One of them spoke us to today and this is a courageous young man who told a frightening story about what happened that night and about his will to survive. He just dropped me off across the street and i look over and theres just bodies everywhere. Reporter angel colon had nothing, but gratitude to the doctors and nurses. He remembered in vivid color being inside the nightclub, hugging friends goodbye and hearing shots. We grabbed each other and started running and unfortunately, i was shot about three times in my leg so i had fallen down. Reporter angel laid there listening to screams and gun fire. He was trampled and left with a broken leg. The shooter returned to fire again on those already down including so i dont know how by the glory of god he shoots toward my head and it hits my hand and then he shoots me
Began a a 44month long prison sentence. His promised release date is january of next year. On top of breaking news. A shooting in the heart of uptown charlotte. Crime scene tape in a parking lot across from the Transit Center and close to Time Warner Cable arena where the hornets play tonight. One person was hurt and another person is in police custody. And coleen harry is live in uptown. Police still on the scene there . Yes, except for one police cruiser. Most officers cleared the scene. The officers and the detectives converged on this area. The call came in at 3 30 for a shooting on brevard street and police found a young man lying in a parking lot he had been shot several times. Medic transported him to the hospital and an hourandahalf ago we were told he was lifethreatening. Condition. Police found the suspect being questioned. Found the weapon also. The victim was in a dispute with another person and police say this is not a random shooting. When he shot him he took off running