Coming up on waington journal, we talked about camping 2024n the future of the Republican Party. Jesse burns, Senior Editor of th hill, previews the week ahead on the campaign trail. Also, we discuss veterans and military issues. Washington journal starts now. Host it is washington journal for august 7, a poll asked respondents about overall confidence in the u. S. Military. There were fluctuations over several decades, current results show that americans are less likely to express a great deal or a lot of confidence in the military. We will show you those results. To start the program, we want your thoughts on your current level of confidence in the American Military and tell us why you have confidence or do not have confidence. Republicans 202 7488001, democrats 202 7488000 and independents 202 7488002. For active and former military members, 202 7488003. You can use the same number to text us this morning. You can post on social media at facebook. Com cspan or cspanwj on twitter and
Cspan is a Public Service along with these other Television Providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice also spoke during the aspen security forum. She rules and on the future of the u. S. Workforce, immigration and technology education. This is about 30 minutes. [applause] secretary rice thank you also much for being here. Im super excited to be a part of this conversation, its hugely important. I think everyone in this room would agree, i think United States must have a renewed commitment to an Education System thats compatible with training our workforce for the jobs of tomorrow if we want to lead and technology. What we need to do in this session is figure out how we are doing now and what we are going to do to get in a better place. So i want to start by getting everyones reaction to the report. Secretary rice first of all, thank you very much and thank you for this opportunity. I have a little bit of deja vu because more than a
Okay steve. Lots the 30s. Cool afternoon and a very cool weekend. Details on the Weather Forecast and maybe a snowflake in the forecast as well. Erin. Unfortunately a busy crowded morning around the dmv. Traffic easing a bit on new york avenue. We had an earlier disabled tractortrailer by montana avenue that set us back. Outer loop parked with a. M. 30 minute delay solid crawling along from 95 to 270. Huge delays on suitland parkway inbound. On 50 traffic is once again moving westbound after an overturned tractorTrailer Crash really set us back at Cape Saint Claire road. We have team coverage. Fox5s annie yu shes out on location with the very latest. Reporter h hey, erin. The good news is the lanes reopened westbound. Eastbound youre good too. The miles of backup along the bay bridge. Bay bridge headed into d. C. Check this out. Just miles and miles of backups that sort of accumulated over the last five, six hours. Finally being let through. Along route 50 near Cape Saint Claire road.
And shine up and adam, it is much more hospitalible this weekend than la its not a typical august week. I almost said july. Its not a typical july week, youre right about that, its a typical august week. That would have been incorrect. Really, i mean, yeah, its rain returning tomorrow. But no today. So tomorrow is some rain look there could be thunderstorms too, well talk about that during the morning hours, mondays are never a good thing, you add a little rain and makes for a difficult commute. We could have a chance for tomorrow morning and evening as well. Not today. Its 70 out there. Look at gaithersburg, 59 degrees. So theres 50s in the suburb, culpeper your 59, fredericksberg is 61, a will be of cloud cover coming across right now, but as the sun gets up and higher, it looks like its going to burn that off because most of what we have is thunderstorms back out to the west. Usually burning off. 50s and a few lower 60, it wont be quite as delightful as it was yesterday but still re
Monday morning. Mondayni those power crews we showed you arent the only s ones dealing with high winds. Theyve made for a busy nighty t for fire crews in our region r as well. That includes this house fireir along largo road in Upper Marlboro. Fire started around 3 30 this morning. In were told flames were wer possible sparked on the back bak deck from ashes from a fireplace. Three people and the family andf dog inside all made it out okay. Okay thats good news. Ats good n and more good news largo road r in front of the house has nows w reopened. Reop just 7 01 now. N Prince Georges County policerg investigating a plans murder. Se this happened in laurel lastn le night. A man found shot to deatho dea inside a home on deerfielddield road around 9 p. M. We haveave very Little Information attl this time. We do knowe police of courseof course still investigating. Tigating. Lets head to missouri now. No a Police Sergeant recovering after being shot twice in then h face in whats being called