If your answer is yes, you are ready to see pro sports again, your number is going to be 202 7488000. If your answer is no, it is too early to have pro sports again in the United States, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Keep in mind, you can always text us your answer at 202 we are always reading on social media, on twitter at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Once again, pro sports are beginning and all professional leagues across the United States, with different leagues doing Different Things around the nation. We will start the show by telling you exactly what the pro leagues are doing, and this comes from our friends at the red and black. Major League Baseball started july 23 with a Washington Nationals losing 41 to the new york yankees. Game following a 60 regular season, the mlb will conduct an extended playoff for the 2020 season. The nfl has started making its plans for the upcoming season, with players in the league eliminating the 2020 preseason, instead o
Where he had the good fortune to stay under gary gallagher. He is the author or editor of five books, including the last generation. Young virginians in peace, war, and reunion. Published by unc press in 2005. He is also one of the series editors for you and see presses for civil war series and i know him best in this capacity. He was my editor for midnight in america and i can tell you his thoughtfulness, his careful attention to detail and generosity with sources made my book a better book. Today, he will tell us about his most recent book, the war for the common soldier which was released in 2018 as part of the prestigious little field series with unc press. A review in the Civil War History recently concluded quote, it is appointment book, full of pathos, which vividly bears out carmichael steams and brilliantly eliminates the mental struggle and coping mechanisms of civil war combatants. It will prove a valuable work for anyone concerned with the live experience of the civil war s
Effect until 430 with this were also seeing a little bit of hail as well. Farther south things are pretty quiet. Im watchng this little isolated shower to the sth of leesburg. Its going to continue to pull to the northeast clipping far western Montgomery County there and i think a little bit more activity going on to the south. Heavy rain. We had a few lightning strikes there. In the washington, d. C. Metro core we do have the threat for some showers and storms as we ug head thro the next couple of hours. Right now, though, temperatures are in the mid 70s with lots of suns. That sunshine is actually going to give us some fuel to see some storms spark off in the next hour or two. Ill keep you updated. Thank you. And we invite you to download our nbc washington app if you havent done so already. You see somaras forecast the ere, anytime, right in palm of your hand. Let turn now to some breaking news just coming in. Moments ago a jury reached asi deci in a case geagainst a former Universi
Breaking weather alerts. If this watch is expanded we will send an alert through that nbc washington app. We have new video at 5. It shows the moment a d. C. Man slammed into a van during a highspeed chase in maryland, killing two people. Today, a judge sentenced him to more than a decade in prison. Prince georges county bureau chief Tracee Wilkins was in the courtroom today, join us live to tell us about this. Tracy . Reporter he came speeding this up road here and then the crash happened in the middle of that intersection and then the driver takes off running into those woods. We will show you what happened when did he that in just a little bit. He twloeft women dying on the road here on Central Avenue and another woman severely injured. She was in a coma. We met her today. He was smoking drugs and drink possibly in a stolen vehicle. State Prosecutor Says thats why ronald hayes took off when his car was approached by police in december of 2012. It was a Police Shooting that evening a
Well get some zhoosunshine and warm start. Well get warmer in the day. 56 right now. Philadelphia at 55 degrees. 55 to start with, near 60 at 8 00 and it is up 54 degrees at 11 00. Warm ng ting in the 70s this afternoon. It is going to be a long day today. It is going feel like autumn. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Bill, we have updates from our Google Express way and more on the vine. 5 01, we see it move around the 5 ch 5 00 mark. All construction vehicles are out of the way. Either way, the eastbound side of the scoop express way is open. You can get on the vine if you do. Watching 95. The twelve minute drive time right now. Speeds there are still in the 60s. I am here with the northeast philly construction boulevard between adams avenue. 5 02 developing right now. A struggle and a shooting and a survivor. Camden officer was shot in the leg while trying to arrest a gun wheeling suspect. Live for us this morning where the officer is expected to be okay, matt, the po