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the u.s. i have gone to great lengths to keep politics out of the roundtable. this topic, monuments, has elements of both history and politics. what do you think should be the role of roundtables, if any, on this issue? we thought that was a very good question. civil war buffs, who know more about the general public, what should we do about this issue? tom, i will ask you first. professor brown: [indiscernible] if you think that you are keeping taught six out of it, keeping politics out of it, you re probably kidding yourself. my device would be to try to have an environment in which you can have political discussions and recognize it is a political discussion. tim. professor sedore: no question. i don t see how you can avoid politics in the war. but roundtables have a really gratifying ability and i m aware of how a different perspective can be brought in a certain sense. they are really interested in history, and in some ways, you have to let it come out with th ....
- gorgeous start to the work week - hot & humid on the way return midweek today: mostly sunny. breezy & seasonable. highs: 72-76 winds: nw 10-15 g 25+ tonight: mainly clear. comfortably cool. lows: 48-54 winds: nw 5 mph tuesday: partly cloudy. warmer. highs: 79-82 winds: sw 5 mph we re following breaking news from pittsburgh.. let s get right to our sam sweeney - pittsburgh.. let s get right to our sam sweeney - sam? a huge seven-alarm fire - burning right now in a downtown pittsburgh high rise. we know this is a residential building - and flames can be seen shooting out of the windows of the 17 story tower. people living inside are being evacuated. no reports of any injuries to residents. we ve just learned at least one fire fighter is at teh hospital for minor injuries. we will update this story as we get new information. developing now. the mayor of charlottesville virginia denouncing a torch rally held by white nationalist in response to the planned removal of confe ....
about our heather our weather headline. i can t talk this morning. give it time. lots of sunshine. temperatures headed into the 70 s. all in all just a beautiful spring day. erin. right now suitland parkway shut down on the inbound side because of a deadly crash scene at forestville road. melanie alnwick working on that. we ll help you get around that and choose your alternates next. let s get you caught up on news at 5:01. breaking news on suitland parkway erin just talked about a deadly crash causing major delays. we re told three people were killed. our melanie alnwick just arrived on the scene and joins us live with what she knows. hey, mel. reporter: good morning, guys. yeah, so we re just kind of getting here to the scene and you can kind of see what we when we first got here there was a large light. you can barely see there in the distance there s sort of a with a little bit of policely- light there on it. that car definitely is that damaged. what y ....
this morning giving you a live look outside last night. that mood was impressive over the weekend wasn t it. tucker says it s going to be a nice warm day. let s check in with him right now. tucker and erin are standing by. nice breeze out of the north and west and dry. details on that weather. erin how are the roads. triple fatal crash has everything shut down on suitland parkway. other delays in the district. 395 completely backed up. a crash on the 14th street bridge. we ll be right back with more. let s go back to the first crash erin was mentioning the dead technological one on the suitland parkway. we have learned three people have been killed. melanie alnwick is live at the scene now with the latest. melanie, good morning. reporter: good morning, steve and the allison. so, park police have pushed us back quite some distance from that intersection of suitland parkway and forestville road. you can s turning around. the reason they have pushed us back is ....
soledad: i m soledad o brien. welcome to matter of fact. while the health care debate has been divisive to say the least the american public is pretty clear on what they d like to see. a little unity. a new kaiser family foundation poll shows 71% of the public want a bi- partisan solution to that break down includes 41% of, and 72% of independents. hope of a gop only bill is fading away despite the efforts of senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell. showing his frustration, mcconnell delayed the start of the august recess by two weeks in hopes of getting to a cons we simply, as a result of all this obstructionism, don t have enough time to address all of these issues between now and the originally anticipated august recess. soledad: ezekiel emanuel, an architect of the affordable care act, says the law needs an upgrade, but not a repeal-and-replace. dr. emanuel outlines his ideas in his book, prescription for the future. thanks for joining us. you have been in m ....