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Howard county schools are on a two hour delay. Prince georg charld Maryland County all closed for scheduled teacher workdays thought because of the weather. In West Virginia weather is closing schools in mineral, hampshire, grant, berkeley and Jefferson County schools today. Watch news 4 all morning download the nbc washington ach as well for a list of all the closings a and delays. Tom kierein begins our Team Coverage with what you can expect during your morning commute. A combination of rain and snow. Right now in the viewing area, right around washington we have a sharp dividing line of where the rain meets the snow. All this in green is rain. Its right along washington, inside the beltway, and inside the district and then into fairfax and loudoun cou and points ....
outside. it is nice tonight, but changes are on the way for your weekend. thanks for joining us tonight. i m shawn yancy. i m brian bolter. we ll begin with the deadly meningitis outbreak. five people have died, dozens are sick in six states including maryland and virginia. investigators are warning hundreds, maybe even thousands of others may be at risk. bob barnard is working this story tonight. that s because of 17,000 vials of the contaminated steroids have been sent to 27 facilities. five in two state are reported to be sick with flu-like symptoms. it s a fungal, not a viral or bacterial form of meningitis that attacks the brain lining and spinal cord now linked to five deaths, 30 others sickened. most of the cases are in tennessee, but there are others in florida, indiana, north carolina and, yes, maryland and virginia. all the infected patients received steroid injections to treat back pain. it s very important for your listening audience to know that t ....
bad out there. we have humidity sticking around. i m sarah simmons. i m wisdom martin. it was all foggy yesterday. also yesterday, we had issues. we had humidity and we had mosquitoes. we got those again this morning. i know. this is all your fault. i don t want to take credit for this particular weather but yeah, i mean we just got some showers moving through as well. the good news is gradual improvement today. i guess the bad news is it will take a while. so later this afternoon, we ll start to see some drier air. we have to wait several hours for it. you will be here at work with us. we ll be just getting off the set when it finally clears up. exactly. let me show you the shower activity moving in from the west. our viewers out to the west have been dealing with these showers in the last couple of hours. generally north to south here, haggers up two, down 81, winchester, front royal, now as close as manassas and just to the west of reston. some very ....
african-americans and the circumstances surrounding their visits. this is 1:10. as we learned this morning, many did not enter service at lafayette square vounl taele vv. jefferson, madison, monroe, jackson, tyler, polk, taylor, owned slaves and brought them to the white house and from their plantations in the south. until 1862, when slavery was abolished in district of columbia slaves worked alongside paid black freemen and european servants at the white house. for most of the 19th century, the structure of the white house staff remained generally the, the same. at the top was a steward, federal employee who was bonded. the congress created this position to safe guard the silver and furnishings in the white house. the steward was on the government pay ll lroll. it required patience, strayed tiff administrative ability and great sense of discretion. beneath him, maids, footmen, cooks, laborers, and about 1/3 of the servants lived there in the basements. so ....
colors, made by madam hyde denuville. hyden clay and martin van buren were notable whose rented the decatur house. these were some of the many people, many notable people, par sonages if you personages, whom jennings got to know. even as a slave, it helps to know people in high places. he was well connected, a networker and he took appropriate advantage of the connections in his pursuit of the right to rise. and i feel obliged to say that the door at dolly madison s house moved all over the place. first in front. then it moved to the side where you see it in that photograph. later that door was made a window. today it is further down on h street. you see president polk whom jennings worked for you. can believe that dolly kept all the earnings. and dolly herself, who is a little bit fuzzy, she is not holding her, her head straight enough is to the right of polk as you are looking at the photograph. here its the lafayette square gates. here is lafayette square gates. th ....